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Northam market report EX39 4, Bideford
The EX39 4 (Northam) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,160 HM Land Registry entries for EX39 4 (Bideford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in EX39 4 (Bideford) sold for £232,500 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £270,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,190 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,160 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
EX39 4 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 4 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 4
In the EX39 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £232,500, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £270,900, sitting 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 4
A square metre of EX39 4 home has cost about £3,190 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EX39 4 sits 18% below the national market.
The price of a typical EX39 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £232,500 | £232,500 | 31 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 120 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 124 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 111 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 87 |
| 2021 | £233,000 | £295,008 | 155 |
| 2020 | £211,500 | £274,426 | 102 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 137 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 139 |
| 2017 | £176,500 | £240,728 | 149 |
| 2016 | £174,500 | £244,127 | 134 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 171 |
| 2014 | £158,000 | £224,151 | 156 |
| 2013 | £164,800 | £237,131 | 136 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 155 |
| 2011 | £150,500 | £227,197 | 164 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 156 |
| 2009 | £150,200 | £241,448 | 122 |
| 2008 | £162,800 | £266,864 | 120 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 203 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 208 |
| 2005 | £159,700 | £284,202 | 138 |
| 2004 | £147,000 | £266,981 | 102 |
| 2003 | £125,400 | £231,017 | 132 |
| 2002 | £87,000 | £163,690 | 145 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 121 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 113 |
| 1999 | £54,400 | £108,416 | 150 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 106 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 114 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 100 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical EX39 4 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £232,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 138%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EX39 4 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 2003 (+44.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−16.4%). 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) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 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
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.
EX39 4 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 145 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The shape of the EX39 4 market
This is a thin market: 31 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.
What tenants pay around EX39 4
For renting purposes EX39 4 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.
£787 a month is £9,444 a year, which against the £232,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on EX39 4 (Northam)
Are property prices falling in EX39 4 (Northam)?
Is EX39 4 (Northam) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX39 4 (Northam)?
What happens to EX39 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in EX39 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 125 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EX39 district, not just EX39 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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.
What another bedroom costs in EX
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EX area, 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, EX area districts
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 3 | £236,200 | 62 |
| 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 4? 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 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EX39 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EX39 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EX39 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX39 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EX39 4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.