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Northam market report EX39, Bideford
The standing EX39 (Northam) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 27,151 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EX39 (Bideford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical EX39 (Bideford) home changed hands for £245,000 in 2026 (median of 195 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £290,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,370 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 27,151 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district EX39 covering Bideford, Northam, Appledore sits in Bideford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where EX39 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 prices, from the sold record
195 sales were registered in EX39 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £245,000. The mean works out at £290,600, 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
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in EX39 costs about £3,370 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 14% below the country at large.
EX39's median sold price, 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 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 195 |
| 2025 | £276,000 | £282,600 | 757 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 750 |
| 2023 | £291,500 | £320,287 | 724 |
| 2022 | £305,000 | £357,647 | 782 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 998 |
| 2020 | £233,900 | £303,490 | 760 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 836 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 876 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 918 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 911 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 997 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 969 |
| 2013 | £174,500 | £251,088 | 756 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 695 |
| 2011 | £170,500 | £257,389 | 722 |
| 2010 | £186,500 | £292,480 | 735 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 726 |
| 2008 | £177,000 | £290,140 | 589 |
| 2007 | £176,600 | £299,563 | 1,074 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 1,185 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 889 |
| 2004 | £160,500 | £291,499 | 806 |
| 2003 | £134,200 | £247,229 | 908 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 1,181 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 1,108 |
| 2000 | £72,500 | £142,281 | 1,025 |
| 1999 | £62,000 | £123,563 | 1,107 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 866 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 925 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 804 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 577 |
In cash terms the typical EX39 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 132%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EX39 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 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £370,000 against £141,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, EX39
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £370,000 | 71 | 10,078 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 30 | 4,224 |
| Terraced | £208,800 | 80 | 10,051 |
| Flats | £141,500 | 14 | 2,798 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.2% | −13.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
EX39 recorded 500 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,022 sales a year before the financial crisis and 642 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
For renting purposes EX39 sits in Torridge. The ONS average private rent there is £787 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £564 a month here against £1,267 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Torridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £245,000 median sold price, £787 a month is £9,444 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
The shape of the EX39 market
In its area's price order EX39 comes 31 of 33, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Common questions on EX39 (Northam)
Are property prices falling in EX39 (Northam)?
Is EX39 (Northam) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EX39 (Northam)?
Are EX39 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
EX39's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in EX39 sold for. The live side of the market holds 125 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 84% above the EX39 median sold price.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: EX prices by size
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
EX39 ranks 21 of 33 in the EX area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, EX area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside EX39, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 5 | £290,000 | 23 |
| EX39 6 | £280,000 | 8 |
How EX39 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the EX area, and EX39 itself, which ranks 31 of 33 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| EX3 | £425,000 | -6% |
| EX6 | £400,000 | +24% |
| EX10 | £387,500 | +2% |
| EX9 | £380,000 | -4% |
| EX21 | £377,500 | +9% |
| EX11 | £366,200 | +10% |
| EX33 | £364,000 | -4% |
| EX37 | £340,000 | +5% |
| EX1 | £337,500 | +15% |
| EX23 | £325,000 | +2% |
| EX24 | £320,000 | -9% |
| EX8 | £315,000 | +11% |
| EX2 | £305,000 | +3% |
| EX17 | £303,800 | +9% |
| EX5 | £300,000 | +10% |
| EX12 | £300,000 | +0% |
| EX31 | £300,000 | -1% |
| EX18 | £295,000 | -6% |
| EX22 | £290,000 | -5% |
| EX13 | £285,000 | +1% |
| EX15 | £283,800 | +9% |
| EX19 | £282,000 | -6% |
| EX7 | £275,000 | +4% |
| EX39 (this report) | £245,000 | -2% |
Selling in EX39? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EX39, open the average prices map and zoom from the EX39 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EX39 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EX39.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EX39 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EX39 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.