The median home in Westward Ho! sells for £299,750
That is the middle of 318 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 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.
318 homes sold in three years: 139 detached houses, 82 semi-detached houses, 39 terraced houses and 58 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£420K
median sale · 139 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£345K–£505K
Last 12 months
£410K33 sold
New build
£475K
Semi-detached houses£258K
median sale · 82 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£235K–£295K
Last 12 months
£295K14 sold
New build
£250K
Terraced houses£265K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£224K–£286K
Last 12 months
£267K13 sold
New build
£283K
Flats and maisonettes£183K
median sale · 58 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£135K–£265K
Last 12 months
£142K11 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: 44% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses44%
Semi-detached houses26%
Terraced houses12%
Flats and maisonettes18%
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 Westward Ho!’s homes sold for between £235K and £417K
One sale in ten was under £172K and one in ten over £530K. 31% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £299,750, sits in the £250–300K band
318 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 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 £305,000 in the last 12 months (£254,975 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
71 sales in the last 12 months, against 206 in 2002, the busiest year, and 75 in 2008. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 23% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Westward Ho! costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Westward Ho!, 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
£63K
£106K
£235K
£244K
£260K
£365K
£410K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£74K
£160K
£164K
£183K
£238K
£295K
Terraced houses
£41K
£58K
£138K
£190K
£168K
£225K
£267K
Flats and maisonettes
£24K
£32K
£122K
£235K
£167K
£180K
£142K
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
20% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
983 new homes have been sold in Westward Ho! since 1995; the share peaked at 48% in 1998.
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 £342,000
against £290,000 for a home sold on, 18% 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.
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.2% sold leasehold in Westward Ho!. 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
Curlew Drive is Westward Ho!’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
25 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 8 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Curlew Drive
EX39
19
£333,000
Mixed · new builds
2
Escott Crescent
EX39
16
£321,500
Mixed · new builds
3
Bay View Road
EX39
15
£265,000
Mostly flats
4
Atlanta View
EX39
12
£381,749
Mixed · new builds
5
Swallow Rise
EX39
12
£281,450
Mixed · new builds
6
Blackbird Way
EX39
12
£248,450
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
7
Kingsley Park
EX39
12
£212,500
Mostly detached houses
8
Kala Fair
EX39
12
£132,000
Mostly flats
9
Boulevard Way
EX39
9
£529,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
10
Swanswood Gardens
EX39
9
£392,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Nelson Road
EX39
9
£185,000
Mostly flats
12
Atlantic Way
EX39
8
£317,500
Mostly flats
13
Heron Way
EX39
8
£241,450
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
14
Beach Road
EX39
7
£400,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Dove Lane
EX39
7
£375,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
Dearest streets
Boulevard Way: £529,000
Westward Ho! median£300K
Boulevard Way£529K
Pavilion View£525K
Beach Road£400K
Buckleigh Road£400K
Swanswood Gardens£392K
Cheapest streets
Kala Fair: £132,000
Westward Ho! median£300K
Kala Fair£132K
Kipling Terrace£140K
Nelson Road£185K
Kingsley Park£213K
Heron Way£241K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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.
Across Devon
Westward Ho! is the 19th most expensive of 47 towns in Devon
Westward Ho! is in the middle of Devon’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Westward Ho!
What is the average house price in Westward Ho!?
The median home in Westward Ho! sold for £299,750 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 318 standard sales (£305,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £419,950, semi-detached houses £257,750, terraced houses £265,000 and flats and maisonettes £182,500.
Are house prices going up in Westward Ho!?
The median was £290,000 in 2025, down 7% on 2024 (£311,500), and £305,000 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 Westward Ho! each year?
71 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 121 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Westward Ho!?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Boulevard Way (EX39, £529,000), Pavilion View (EX39, £525,000) and Beach Road (EX39, £400,000).
How much does a new build cost in Westward Ho!?
New homes sold for a median £342,000 over three years, against £290,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 32% of sales.
Is Westward Ho! expensive for Devon?
Westward Ho! is the 19th most expensive of 47 towns of 2,500 or more in Devon by median sale price.
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.