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Northam market report EX39 2, Bideford
The standing EX39 2 (Northam) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,031 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EX39 2 (Bideford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical EX39 2 (Bideford) home changed hands for £237,000 in 2026 (median of 23 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier), with the mean at £301,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,031 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
EX39 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside EX39 (Bideford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where EX39 2 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 EX39 2 homes really sell for
The EX39 2 median stands at £237,000 for 2026, built from 23 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £301,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in EX39 2
Per square metre, EX39 2 homes have averaged around £2,750 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, EX39 2 runs 17% below it.
A typical EX39 2 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 | £237,000 | £237,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 89 |
| 2024 | £207,000 | £220,084 | 65 |
| 2023 | £242,500 | £266,448 | 48 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 94 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 109 |
| 2020 | £174,500 | £226,417 | 78 |
| 2019 | £156,800 | £205,527 | 86 |
| 2018 | £148,500 | £197,953 | 93 |
| 2017 | £144,000 | £196,402 | 108 |
| 2016 | £142,000 | £198,659 | 87 |
| 2015 | £141,200 | £199,516 | 98 |
| 2014 | £137,000 | £194,358 | 112 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 82 |
| 2012 | £158,000 | £232,556 | 50 |
| 2011 | £146,000 | £220,404 | 70 |
| 2010 | £139,000 | £217,988 | 75 |
| 2009 | £135,800 | £218,300 | 62 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 65 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 146 |
| 2006 | £137,200 | £238,162 | 142 |
| 2005 | £133,000 | £236,686 | 86 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 79 |
| 2003 | £98,200 | £180,908 | 104 |
| 2002 | £94,200 | £177,236 | 146 |
| 2001 | £72,800 | £139,954 | 130 |
| 2000 | £59,500 | £116,769 | 95 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 145 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 111 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 164 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 121 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical EX39 2 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £237,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 183%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX39 2 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 2004 (+32.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−22.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EX39 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +21.5% | +18.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in EX39 2
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 23 sales completed in EX39 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 116 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How EX39 2 trades
This is a thin market: 23 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.
What tenants pay around EX39 2
EX39 2 falls under Torridge, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £787 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £564 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,267 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Torridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £237,000 median sold price, £787 a month is £9,444 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: EX39 2 (Northam)
Are property prices falling in EX39 2 (Northam)?
Is EX39 2 (Northam) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX39 2 (Northam)?
Will EX39 2 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
EX39's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 125 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX39 district, not just EX39 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in EX: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the EX area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £291,200 | 48 |
| 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 a home in EX39 2? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EX39 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EX39 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to EX39 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual EX39 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.