Strategic Housing Market Assessment - North Devon District Council

SHMA: Torridge and North Devon Update
Key findings:
• 60.0% of sales in CWCHV and 53.7% of sales in DRA were detached
properties compared to just over one third (35.5%) in North Devon overall
during the monitoring period of just over one year.
• 23.2% of sales in ICLV were detached properties. In the remaining three
SMAs a similar percentage of sales to the North Devon figure were detached
properties.
• More than one fifth of sales in EXDF (21.6%), SM (21.4%) and TTTRF
(20.3%) were semi detached properties compared to 18.5% in North Devon
overall.
• 11.4% of sales in ICLV, 13.8% in CWCHV and 16.7% in DRA were semi
detached properties.
• Nearly two fifths (39.8%) of sales in ICLV, more than one third (34.8%) in
TTTRF and in EXDF (34.1%) were terraced properties compared to one third
(33.0%) in North Devon overall.
• 5% of sales in CWCHV were terraced properties. More than one quarter
(28.6%) of sales in SM and DRA (27.8%) of were terraced properties.
• More than one quarter (25.6%) of sales in ICLV, more than one fifth (21.3%)
in CWCHV and 16.3% in SM were flats compared to 13.0% overall.
• 1.9% of sales in DRA, 8.0% in EXDF and 9.7% in TTTRF were flats.
The social housing sector
5.24 The following table identifies the average rents charged for social rented
properties across the district and therefore across all SMAs in 2011-12.
Table 5.12: social rents by type and bed size, 2010-11
Bedsize
North Devon
1 bed £60.60
2 bed £70.42
3 bed £80.42
4 bed £93.90
(Source: Core data)
Key findings:
• Average rents range from £61 for a 1 bed to £94 for a 4 bed property.
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