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Northam market report EX39 5, Bideford
The standing EX39 5 (Northam) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,505 HM Land Registry entries for EX39 5 (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 5 (Bideford) sold for £290,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £330,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,505 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like EX39 5 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 5 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.
Today's EX39 5 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for EX39 5 is £290,000, taken from 23 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £330,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in EX39 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in EX39 5 costs about £3,460 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts EX39 5 2% above the country at large.
The price of a typical EX39 5 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £328,000 | £335,843 | 89 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 125 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 107 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 95 |
| 2021 | £320,000 | £405,161 | 145 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 105 |
| 2019 | £248,500 | £325,724 | 88 |
| 2018 | £224,200 | £298,863 | 92 |
| 2017 | £221,200 | £301,695 | 120 |
| 2016 | £230,000 | £321,772 | 99 |
| 2015 | £217,500 | £307,328 | 126 |
| 2014 | £222,800 | £316,081 | 136 |
| 2013 | £211,500 | £304,327 | 86 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 87 |
| 2011 | £221,200 | £333,927 | 86 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 88 |
| 2009 | £182,000 | £292,567 | 95 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 69 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 120 |
| 2006 | £194,200 | £337,106 | 182 |
| 2005 | £167,500 | £298,082 | 120 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 117 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 122 |
| 2002 | £128,000 | £240,831 | 189 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 172 |
| 2000 | £89,200 | £175,055 | 142 |
| 1999 | £82,800 | £165,016 | 122 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 102 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 96 |
| 1996 | £53,500 | £112,829 | 82 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical EX39 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 122%: 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 5 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 1997 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EX39 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.6% | −13.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in EX39 5
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 23 EX39 5 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 146 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 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.
What kind of market EX39 5 is
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. Within EX39, this sector trades 18% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around EX39 5
For renting purposes EX39 5 sits in Torridge. The ONS average private rent there is £787 a month (May 2026). 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 £290,000 median sold price, £787 a month is £9,444 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
EX39 5 (Northam): the questions that come up
Is EX39 5 (Northam) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX39 5 (Northam)?
Are property prices falling in EX39 5 (Northam)?
What happens to EX39 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in EX39 now
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 5: 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" 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in EX
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of EX39, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EX39 1 | £291,200 | 48 |
| EX39 2 | £237,000 | 23 |
| EX39 3 | £236,200 | 62 |
| EX39 4 | £232,500 | 31 |
| 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 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EX39 5'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 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX39 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EX39 5 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.
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.