That is the middle of 42 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 4.3 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.
42 homes sold in three years: 19 detached houses, 13 semi-detached houses and 10 terraced houses.
Detached houses£450K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£415K–£650K
Last 12 months
£544K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£350K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£245K–£445K
Last 12 months
£350K5 sold
Terraced houses£248K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£231K–£268K
The mix
Mostly detached: 45% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses45%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses24%
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 Whimple’s homes sold for between £265K and £512K
One sale in ten was under £233K and one in ten over £650K. 24% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £372,500, sits in the £300–400K band
42 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.3 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £96,225 in 1995 to £415,000 in the last 12 months (£280,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
15 sales in the last 12 months, against 63 in 1999, the busiest year, and 9 in 2025. Sales fell by 30% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 86% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Whimple costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Whimple, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£110K
£136K
£267K
£289K
£367K
£375K
£544K
Semi-detached houses
£62K
£110K
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—
£295K
—
£350K
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
127 new homes have been sold in Whimple since 1995; the share peaked at 71% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Whimple. 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 Whimple
What is the average house price in Whimple?
The median home in Whimple sold for £372,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 42 standard sales (£415,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £450,000, semi-detached houses £350,000 and terraced houses £248,000.
How many homes sell in Whimple each year?
15 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 17 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.