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Northam market report EX39 1, Bideford
The EX39 1 (Northam) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,903 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX39 1 (Bideford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for EX39 1 (Bideford) is £291,200, from 48 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier; the mean is £314,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,860 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,903 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like EX39 1 is a single group of streets within EX39 (Bideford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where EX39 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in EX39 1
48 sales were registered in EX39 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £291,200. The mean works out at £314,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
EX39 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of EX39 1 home has cost about £3,860 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, EX39 1 runs 2% above it.
A typical EX39 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £291,200 | £291,200 | 48 |
| 2025 | £304,000 | £311,270 | 220 |
| 2024 | £342,500 | £364,148 | 255 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 275 |
| 2022 | £349,000 | £409,242 | 293 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 280 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 205 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 236 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 270 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 270 |
| 2016 | £222,000 | £310,580 | 268 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 285 |
| 2014 | £191,000 | £270,967 | 270 |
| 2013 | £197,000 | £283,463 | 254 |
| 2012 | £188,000 | £276,713 | 215 |
| 2011 | £189,000 | £285,317 | 224 |
| 2010 | £206,000 | £323,061 | 228 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 251 |
| 2008 | £204,000 | £334,399 | 169 |
| 2007 | £189,200 | £320,936 | 326 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 345 |
| 2005 | £172,000 | £306,091 | 303 |
| 2004 | £167,500 | £304,213 | 317 |
| 2003 | £152,200 | £280,389 | 316 |
| 2002 | £123,500 | £232,364 | 427 |
| 2001 | £88,200 | £169,560 | 404 |
| 2000 | £77,500 | £152,094 | 393 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 393 |
| 1998 | £59,700 | £120,509 | 335 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 330 |
| 1996 | £51,500 | £108,611 | 287 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 211 |
In cash terms the typical EX39 1 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £291,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EX39 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−11.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EX39 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.2% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in EX39 1
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 48 EX39 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 354 sales a year before the financial crisis and 218 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around EX39 1
For renting purposes EX39 1 sits in Torridge. The ONS average private rent there is £787 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £564 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,267, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Torridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £291,200 median purchase price, a rent of £787 a month (£9,444 a year) works out at a 3.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How EX39 1 trades
This is a thin market: 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the EX39 district median, EX39 1 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
EX39 1 (Northam): the questions that come up
Is EX39 1 (Northam) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX39 1 (Northam)?
Are property prices falling in EX39 1 (Northam)?
Where do EX39 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in EX39 now
The live side of the market holds 125 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX39 district, not just EX39 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every EX39 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in EX
Real sold prices by size across the EX area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £320,000 | £425,000 (+33%) | £635,000 (+49%) | £840,000 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | £275,000 (+20%) | £335,000 (+22%) | £430,000 (+28%) | £569,000 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £203,000 | £245,000 (+21%) | £280,000 (+14%) | £350,000 (+25%) | £475,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £145,000 | £222,000 (+53%) | £325,000 (+46%) | £458,250 (+41%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the EX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
EX area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in EX39
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are EX39's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX39 2 | £237,000 | 23 |
| EX39 3 | £236,200 | 62 |
| EX39 4 | £232,500 | 31 |
| EX39 5 | £290,000 | 23 |
| EX39 6 | £280,000 | 8 |
Zoom out to the full EX39 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EX39 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in EX39 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX39 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX39 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX39 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EX39 1.
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The live map plots every individual EX39 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.