Benson Drive, Bideford house prices are built from 104 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 29 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £164,500. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +21.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.8%.
Median price paid
£164,500
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+21.1%
Change in real terms
-13.8%
HM Land Registry104 salesLatest sale 29 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Benson Drive, Bideford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Benson Drive, Bideford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £131,975 | £240,420 |
| 2010s | 1 | £189,950 | £267,830 |
| 2020s | 1 | £229,950 | £234,949 |
The highest yearly median on record for Benson Drive, Bideford is £229,950 in 2025; the lowest is £80,000 in 2000. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £80,000 to £229,950.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £160,000, so the real change over the whole record is +46.8% — about +1.55% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +21.1% in cash against -13.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 29 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £226,500 | £231,424 |
| 67 | 15 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £212,000 | £216,609 |
| 26 | 4 Jul 2025 | Detached | £333,000 | £340,239 |
| 81 | 9 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £229,950 | £234,949 |
| 37 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 12 | 11 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £245,100 | £257,904 |
| 18 | 14 Mar 2024 | Detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 81 | 25 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £248,000 | £287,329 |
| 37 | 22 Apr 2022 | Detached | £420,000 | £486,606 |
| 51 | 23 Apr 2021 | Detached | £272,500 | £344,288 |
| 27 | 31 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 49 | 17 Sep 2020 | Detached | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 29 | 17 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 24 | 14 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £204,000 | £266,827 |
| 33 | 11 Oct 2018 | Detached | £249,950 | £333,109 |
| 22 | 29 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £253,214 |
| 55 | 7 Feb 2018 | Semi-detached | £208,000 | £277,202 |
| 19 | 20 Oct 2017 | Semi-detached | £110,620 | £150,554 |
| 81 | 9 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £80,000 | £108,880 |
| 31 | 1 Oct 2017 | Detached | £190,000 | £258,591 |
| 67 | 30 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £59,000 | £82,366 |
| 26 | 8 Feb 2016 | Detached | £250,000 | £349,010 |
| 16 | 3 Oct 2014 | Detached | £204,950 | £293,977 |
| 14 | 15 Aug 2014 | Detached | £189,950 | £272,461 |
| 37 | 11 Aug 2014 | Detached | £185,000 | £265,361 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Benson Drive, Bideford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Benson Drive | £148,200 (2005) | £226,500 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 67 Benson Drive | £59,000 (2016) | £212,000 (2025) | +15.3% | +11.3% |
| 26 Benson Drive | £206,000 (2005) | £333,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 81 Benson Drive | £80,000 (2017) | £229,950 (2025) | +14.1% | +10.1% |
| 37 Benson Drive | £79,500 (2000) | £395,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 12 Benson Drive | £86,950 (2000) | £245,100 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 18 Benson Drive | £195,000 (2004) | £340,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 51 Benson Drive | £197,000 (2004) | £272,500 (2021) | +1.9% | -0.4% |
| 27 Benson Drive | £72,950 (2000) | £210,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +2.9% |
| 49 Benson Drive | £196,000 (2004) | £285,000 (2020) | +2.4% | +0.1% |
| 29 Benson Drive | £72,950 (2000) | £240,000 (2020) | +6.1% | +3.9% |
| 24 Benson Drive | £146,000 (2005) | £204,000 (2019) | +2.4% | +0.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Benson Drive, Bideford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 55 | 52.9% | £190,000 | £79,500 – £420,000 |
| Semi-detached | 40 | 38.5% | £142,500 | £54,950 – £245,100 |
| Terraced | 8 | 7.7% | £73,750 | £59,000 – £248,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 1.0% | £59,980 | £59,980 – £59,980 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Benson Drive, Bideford
9 of the sales on record are leasehold and 95 freehold — 8.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £73,750 and the median freehold sale £168,000 — a gap of +127.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 9 | 8.7% | £73,750 |
| Freehold | 95 | 91.3% | £168,000 |
| New build | 42 | 40.4% | £108,450 |
| Existing home | 62 | 59.6% | £189,975 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -42.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 5 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Benson Drive, Bideford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Devon, 39.9% of 53,724 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 10.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 653 | 1.2% |
| B | 6,333 | 11.8% |
| C | 14,429 | 26.9% |
| D | 17,290 | 32.2% |
| E | 9,523 | 17.7% |
| F | 3,825 | 7.1% |
| G | 1,671 | 3.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Devon at £843 a month as of Jun 2026 — £587 for a one-bedroom home and £961 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £164,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.15% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of EX39, 21 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 7 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 8.0 times quieter.
Against the 98,611 residents the 2021 census counted in North Devon, that is 0.21 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Benson Drive, Bideford
The 2021 census counted 98,611 residents in North Devon across 43,198 households. 68.4% of those households own their home and 31.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a EX39 postcode: 13 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bideford College | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,455 |
| East-the-Water Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 439 |
| West Croft School | Primary | Community school | 417 |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 397 |
| Appledore School | Primary | Foundation school | 244 |
| Atlantic Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 242 |
| St Helen's Church of England School | Primary | Academy converter | 204 |
| St Margaret's Church of England Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 184 |
| Monkleigh Primary School | Primary | Community school | 137 |
| Instow Community Primary and Pre-School | Primary | Foundation school | 136 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bideford Ferry Landing | Ferry | 2.9 km |
| Appledore Ferry Landing | Ferry | 5.7 km |
| Instow Ferry Landing | Ferry | 6.0 km |
| Barnstaple Rail Station | Rail | 14.3 km |
Section 09
How Benson Drive, Bideford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Benson Drive, Bideford sits above that national figure — +4.4%.
Within Bideford the street ranks 335 of 636 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £160,000 (+2.8%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £54,950 to £420,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Benson Drive, Bideford sits in North Devon, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Devon at 9.2 times median local earnings of £32,199 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Clovelly Road£137,000 median
- Bay View Road£245,000 median
- Atlantic Way£215,000 median
- Watkins Way£153,000 median
- Irsha Street£180,000 median
- Meddon Street£110,000 median
- Moreton Park Road£139,950 median
- Lime Grove£141,250 median
- Chingswell Street£124,950 median
- Clifton Street£119,500 median
- Hanson Park£156,750 median
- Abbotsham Road£225,000 median
- J H Taylor Drive£160,000 median
- Churchill Road£150,000 median
- Kimberley Park£172,407 median
- Riverside Court£69,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 7 Benson Drive6 sales
- 22 Benson Drive4 sales
- 26 Benson Drive4 sales
- 37 Benson Drive4 sales
- 2 Benson Drive4 sales
- 81 Benson Drive3 sales
- 51 Benson Drive3 sales
- 27 Benson Drive3 sales
- 49 Benson Drive3 sales
- 24 Benson Drive3 sales
- 33 Benson Drive3 sales
- 55 Benson Drive3 sales
- 19 Benson Drive3 sales
- 14 Benson Drive3 sales
- 8 Benson Drive3 sales
- 45 Benson Drive3 sales
- 67 Benson Drive2 sales
- 12 Benson Drive2 sales
- 18 Benson Drive2 sales
- 29 Benson Drive2 sales
- 31 Benson Drive2 sales
- 16 Benson Drive2 sales
- 65 Benson Drive2 sales
- 43 Benson Drive2 sales
Back to Bideford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Benson Drive, Bideford?
The median price paid in Benson Drive, Bideford across every sale on the register is £164,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Benson Drive, Bideford?
104 sales are on record for Benson Drive, Bideford, the most recent completing on 29 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Benson Drive, Bideford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +21.1% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Benson Drive, Bideford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £229,950, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Benson Drive, Bideford?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 Sep 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Benson Drive, Bideford house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.