Homes in Lynton and Lynmouth sell for a median £267,000
That is the middle of 51 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 4.4 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.
Half of Lynton and Lynmouth’s sales are flats and maisonettes
51 homes sold in three years: 7 detached houses, 5 semi-detached houses, 12 terraced houses and 27 flats and maisonettes.
Terraced houses£292K
median sale · 12 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£347K
Last 12 months
£320K6 sold
Flats and maisonettes£235K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£180K–£305K
Last 12 months
£189K8 sold
Fewer sales
Detached houses: 7 sold, median £370K Semi-detached houses: 5 sold, median £280K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A flat market: half of homes sold are flats
Detached houses14%
Semi-detached houses10%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes53%
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 Lynton and Lynmouth’s homes sold for between £198K and £340K
One sale in ten was under £160K and one in ten over £455K. 37% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £267,000, sits in the £250–300K band
51 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.4 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £57,500 in 1995 to £255,000 in the last 12 months (£207,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
19 sales in the last 12 months, against 42 in 2004, the busiest year, and 12 in 2024. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 80% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Lynton and Lynmouth costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Lynton and Lynmouth, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Terraced houses
£42K
£72K
£180K
£185K
£190K
£265K
£320K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£47K
£176K
£180K
£165K
£175K
£189K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 39% in 2023
34 new homes have been sold in Lynton and Lynmouth since 1995; the share peaked at 39% in 2023.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
65% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 25% sold leasehold in Lynton and Lynmouth. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Lynton and Lynmouth’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Lynton and Lynmouth
What is the average house price in Lynton and Lynmouth?
The median home in Lynton and Lynmouth sold for £267,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 51 standard sales (£255,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £370,000, semi-detached houses £280,000, terraced houses £292,250 and flats and maisonettes £235,000.
Are house prices going up in Lynton and Lynmouth?
The median was £277,500 in 2025, down 3% on 2024 (£287,500), and £255,000 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 Lynton and Lynmouth each year?
19 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 24 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.
Photo: Roger A Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0