That is the middle of 57 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 7.3 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
57 homes sold in three years: 23 detached houses, 11 semi-detached houses, 22 terraced houses and 1 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£790K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£585K–£895K
Last 12 months
£850K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£420K
median sale · 11 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£235K–£560K
Terraced houses£428K
median sale · 22 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£550K
Last 12 months
£418K8 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 1 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 40% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses40%
Semi-detached houses19%
Terraced houses39%
Flats and maisonettes2%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Lympstone’s homes sold for between £385K and £780K
One sale in ten was under £275K and one in ten over £975K. 7% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £560,000, sits in the £500–750K band
57 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £77,750 in 1995 to £567,500 in the last 12 months (£370,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
22 sales in the last 12 months, against 47 in 2008, the busiest year, and 15 in 2010. Sales fell by 32% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Lympstone costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Lympstone, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£78K
£142K
£270K
—
£530K
£565K
£850K
Terraced houses
£71K
£90K
£196K
£180K
£264K
£320K
£418K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
65 new homes have been sold in Lympstone since 1995; the share peaked at 51% in 2008.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.6% sold leasehold in Lympstone. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Lympstone
What is the average house price in Lympstone?
The median home in Lympstone sold for £560,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 57 standard sales (£567,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £790,000, semi-detached houses £420,000 and terraced houses £427,500.
Are house prices going up in Lympstone?
The median was £580,000 in 2025, up 12% on 2024 (£517,500), and £567,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Lympstone each year?
22 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 28 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.