The Esplanade, Woolacombe house prices

The Esplanade, Woolacombe house prices are built from 120 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 16 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £316,250. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +36.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -17.5%.

HM Land Registry120 sales14 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Feb 2026

The chart tracks the median The Esplanade, Woolacombe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for The Esplanade, Woolacombe is £525,000 in 2021; the lowest is £98,999 in 1998. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £98,999 to £470,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £205,277, so the real change over the whole record is +140.9% — about +3.44% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +36.2% in cash against -17.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to The Esplanade, Woolacombe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Esplanade, Woolacombe is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

92 of the sales on record are leasehold and 28 freehold — 76.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £281,250 and the median freehold sale £592,500 — a gap of +110.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -20.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 4 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Esplanade, Woolacombe sits above that national figure — +100.8%.

Within Woolacombe the street ranks 13 of 36 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £245,000 (+29.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,277 per square metre, across 14 of the 120 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £55,000 to £2,600,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Streets nearby

• High Street£98,500 median
• Beach Road£249,970 median
• St Brannocks Road£168,000 median
• Marlborough Road£92,000 median
• Torrs Park£128,500 median
• King Street£155,000 median
• Langleigh Park£155,750 median
• Chambercombe Road£146,000 median
• Wilder Road£144,500 median
• Chichester Park£306,500 median
• Hillington£133,000 median
• Fern Way£172,500 median
• Oxford Grove£75,000 median
• Fore Street£119,000 median
• Doone Way£151,000 median
• Highfield Road£90,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• HILLBURY HOUSE the Esplanade9 sales
• 3, HARTLAND APARTMENTS the Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 2, ST MICHAELS the Esplanade3 sales
• 8, DEVON BEACH COURT the Esplanade3 sales
• 1, HARTLAND APARTMENTS the Esplanade3 sales
• THE WHITE COTTAGE the Esplanade3 sales
• APARTMENT 7, WHITE ROSE the Esplanade3 sales
• 7, DEVON BEACH COURT the Esplanade2 sales
• 4, DEVON BEACH COURT the Esplanade2 sales
• APARTMENT 1, BARRICANE the Esplanade2 sales
• GRAND VUE the Esplanade2 sales
• FLAT 3, ST MICHAELS the Esplanade2 sales
• 2, DEVON BEACH COURT the Esplanade2 sales
• THE LODGE, HARTLAND APARTMENTS the Esplanade2 sales
• FLAT 2, WHITE ROSE the Esplanade2 sales
• 2, HARTLAND APARTMENTS the Esplanade2 sales
• THE WHITE HOUSE the Esplanade2 sales
• FLAT 5, CLIFFSIDE the Esplanade2 sales
• FLAT 1, CLIFFSIDE the Esplanade2 sales
• FLAT 8, LITTLEBEACH the Esplanade2 sales
• 5, HARTLAND APARTMENTS the Esplanade2 sales
• APARTMENT 4, WHITE ROSE the Esplanade2 sales
• CORRIE B the Esplanade2 sales
• COMBE RIDGE HOTEL the Esplanade2 sales

Back to Woolacombe house prices.

What is the average house price in The Esplanade, Woolacombe?

The median price paid in The Esplanade, Woolacombe across every sale on the register is £316,250. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in The Esplanade, Woolacombe?

120 sales are on record for The Esplanade, Woolacombe, the most recent completing on 16 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Esplanade, Woolacombe house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.2% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -17.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Esplanade, Woolacombe house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £525,000, set in 2021. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in The Esplanade, Woolacombe?

£3,277 per square metre, from the 14 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 16 Feb 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “The Esplanade, Woolacombe house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.