That is the middle of 112 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 6.3 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.
112 homes sold in three years: 50 detached houses, 28 semi-detached houses, 27 terraced houses and 7 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£333K
median sale · 50 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£292K–£390K
Last 12 months
£365K5 sold
New build
£370K
Semi-detached houses£250K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£226K–£280K
Last 12 months
£250K5 sold
New build
£274K
Terraced houses£208K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£255K
Last 12 months
£230K5 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 7 sold, median £135K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 45% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses45%
Semi-detached houses25%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes6%
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 North Tawton’s homes sold for between £218K and £350K
One sale in ten was under £158K and one in ten over £395K. 37% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £277,500, sits in the £250–300K band
112 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,500 in 1995 to £274,700 in the last 12 months (£197,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
16 sales in the last 12 months, against 74 in 2005, the busiest year, and 21 in 2008. Sales fell by 63% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 34%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 66% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
North Tawton costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: North Tawton, 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
Detached houses
£67K
£93K
£227K
£205K
£262K
£255K
£365K
Semi-detached houses
£48K
£73K
£169K
£167K
£220K
£199K
£250K
Terraced houses
£37K
£51K
£147K
£125K
£142K
£170K
£230K
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 54% in 2024
182 new homes have been sold in North Tawton since 1995; the share peaked at 54% in 2024.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £288,750
against £252,500 for a home sold on, 14% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in North Tawton. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Oakwood Drive is North Tawton’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Oakwood Drive
EX20
13
£250,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
2
Foxglove Court
EX20
12
£383,747
Mostly detached houses · new builds
3
Honeysuckle Way
EX20
10
£343,331
Mostly detached houses · new builds
4
Fore Street
EX20
8
£184,000
Mixed
5
Cottles View
EX20
7
£256,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
6
High Street
EX20
6
£218,750
Mostly terraced houses
7
Strawberry Fields
EX20
5
£205,000
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
North Tawton’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 North Tawton
What is the average house price in North Tawton?
The median home in North Tawton sold for £277,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 112 standard sales (£274,700 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £333,331, semi-detached houses £250,000, terraced houses £207,500 and flats and maisonettes £135,000.
Are house prices going up in North Tawton?
The median was £250,000 in 2025, down 9% on 2024 (£274,745), and £274,700 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 North Tawton each year?
16 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 41 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in North Tawton?
New homes sold for a median £288,750 over three years, against £252,500 for homes sold on. New builds were 36% of sales.
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.