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Northam market report EX39 3, Bideford
The EX39 3 (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: 6,616 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX39 3 (Bideford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for EX39 3 (Bideford) is £236,200, from 62 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £255,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,990 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,616 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 3 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 3 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.
The going rate for a home in EX39 3
Across 62 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) EX39 3 home went for £236,200. The mean is £255,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in EX39 3
Per square metre, EX39 3 homes have averaged around £2,990 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving EX39 3 17% below the national figure.
A typical EX39 3 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 | £236,200 | £236,200 | 62 |
| 2025 | £271,200 | £277,685 | 208 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 167 |
| 2023 | £233,000 | £256,010 | 159 |
| 2022 | £282,500 | £331,263 | 190 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 274 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 244 |
| 2019 | £217,200 | £284,697 | 264 |
| 2018 | £223,500 | £297,930 | 250 |
| 2017 | £207,000 | £282,327 | 231 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 280 |
| 2015 | £211,000 | £298,143 | 286 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 264 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 175 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 167 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 160 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 160 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 166 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 149 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 247 |
| 2006 | £152,500 | £264,721 | 275 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 210 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 166 |
| 2003 | £126,500 | £233,044 | 198 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 242 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 241 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 243 |
| 1999 | £57,700 | £114,993 | 254 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 178 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 186 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 183 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 137 |
In cash terms the typical EX39 3 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £236,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 147%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX39 3 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 2014 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.9% | −14.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 62 EX39 3 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 228 sales a year before the financial crisis and 157 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.
The rental side of EX39 3
EX39 3 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.
Against the £236,200 median purchase price, a rent of £787 a month (£9,444 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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 3 trades
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Asked and answered: EX39 3 (Northam)
How much did a house sell for in EX39 3 (Northam)?
Are property prices falling in EX39 3 (Northam)?
Is EX39 3 (Northam) a good place to buy a house?
Where do EX39 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in EX39 today
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in EX
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of EX39, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX39 1 | £291,200 | 48 |
| EX39 2 | £237,000 | 23 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in EX39 3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EX39 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX39 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX39 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working EX39 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim EX39 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX39 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EX39 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.