Buy-to-let in Torridge

Torridge in figures

Gross rental yield

4.5%

On terraced houses across Torridge

Entry price, across its towns

£208,000 to £221,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+0.0%

UK House Price Index, across Torridge

Price move, 10 years

+31.1%

10.7% below the year to July 2023, across Torridge

Population

70,378

Torridge, +4.1% growth

• Terraced houses across Torridge let for £790/mo against a median sale of £208,000 there: 4.5% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £789/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Torridge moved +0.0% over the last year and +31.1% over ten years on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, and sit 10.7% below their highest twelve months (to July 2023).

• Prices +31% over ten years, 11% below the year to July 2023 (Torridge)
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 14.0% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain (Torridge)
• £12,900 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £220,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Torridge)
• 570 homes added across Torridge
• Band D £2,601 (Torridge)
• 1.4% long-term empty across Torridge
• +21% five-year forecast for South West as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Torridge report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Torridge moved +31.1% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 10.7% below its highest, the year to July 2023.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 14.0% of employee jobs in Torridge, against 1.4% across Great Britain (3,500 jobs in 2015, 3,500 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Torridge moved +8.7% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

50% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Bideford's postcode districts are below band C (17,132 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £220,000 pays £12,900 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, South West) is a regional figure for South West as a whole, not a forecast for Torridge, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Torridge

Each yield is Torridge's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Torridge as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Torridge report

The full report measures Torridge from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Torridge report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

The investment map ranks Torridge against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.