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Oxford market report OX
The OX (Oxford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 338,797 registered sales in the OX postcode area (Oxford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical the OX postcode area (Oxford) home changed hands for £390,000 in 2026 (median of 3,695 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £461,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,520 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 338,797 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The OX postcode area centred on Oxford covers 26 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where OX 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 OX prices, from the sold record
Across 3,695 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OX home went for £390,000. The mean is £461,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
OX prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in OX have sold for about £4,520 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX sits 37% above the national market.
The price of a typical OX home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 9,602 |
| 2024 | £399,000 | £424,219 | 9,042 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 8,440 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 10,965 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 13,740 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 9,100 |
| 2019 | £343,000 | £449,591 | 9,373 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 9,718 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 9,819 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 10,319 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 10,428 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 10,853 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 9,520 |
| 2012 | £246,000 | £362,081 | 7,900 |
| 2011 | £241,000 | £363,817 | 7,733 |
| 2010 | £241,000 | £377,950 | 8,124 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 7,701 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 6,712 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 12,605 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 14,261 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 11,487 |
| 2004 | £196,000 | £355,974 | 12,847 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 12,310 |
| 2002 | £164,000 | £308,565 | 13,933 |
| 2001 | £137,000 | £263,376 | 14,221 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 12,075 |
| 1999 | £103,500 | £206,270 | 14,427 |
| 1998 | £89,500 | £180,662 | 12,695 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 13,314 |
| 1996 | £72,500 | £152,899 | 12,022 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 9,816 |
In cash terms the typical OX home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 160%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX 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 2000 (+20.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.3% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £542,000 against £232,500 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, OX
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 | £542,000 | 1,044 | 96,817 |
| Semi-detached | £385,000 | 1,155 | 108,000 |
| Terraced | £340,000 | 984 | 87,407 |
| Flats | £232,500 | 512 | 46,573 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
OX recorded 6,764 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 12,967 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8,349 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 tenants pay around OX
The local authority for OX is South Oxfordshire, the local authority covering most of the OX area (parts fall under Cherwell and West Oxfordshire, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,381 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,025 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,292, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, South Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £390,000 median sold price, £1,381 a month is £16,572 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: OX (Oxford)
How much did a house sell for in OX (Oxford)?
Are property prices falling in OX (Oxford)?
Is OX (Oxford) a good place to buy a house?
Are OX prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
OX's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in OX sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 515 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the OX median sold price.
Set against 6,764 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 515 homes on the market here are roughly 4 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
11% 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.
- Fulwell Close, Banbury, OX16 4TF, Oxfordshire
- Berkeley Road, Thame, Thame
- Bampton, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
"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 OX home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Month by month: when OX sells
March is when OX changes hands most (11.4% of the 51,789 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.4%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,403 | 6.6% |
| February | 3,967 | 7.7% |
| March | 5,883 | 11.4% |
| April | 3,301 | 6.4% |
| May | 3,605 | 7.0% |
| June | 5,790 | 11.2% |
| July | 3,800 | 7.3% |
| August | 4,605 | 8.9% |
| September | 4,946 | 9.6% |
| October | 4,219 | 8.1% |
| November | 4,098 | 7.9% |
| December | 4,172 | 8.1% |
Bedroom by bedroom: OX prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OX area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £345,000 | £390,000 (+13%) | £442,975 (+14%) | £555,000 (+25%) | £720,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £325,000 (+18%) | £380,000 (+17%) | £456,000 (+20%) | £599,950 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £230,000 | £295,000 (+28%) | £340,000 (+15%) | £425,000 (+25%) | £535,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £185,000 | £239,475 (+29%) | £375,000 (+57%) | £496,225 (+32%) | £610,000 (+23%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the OX area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The spread inside OX matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| OX2 North and West Oxford, Botley | £550,000 | -5% | 212 |
| OX49 Watlington, Lewknor | £520,000 | +6% | 19 |
| OX7 Chipping Norton, Charlbury | £500,000 | +19% | 162 |
| OX1 Central and South Oxford, Kennington | £497,500 | +8% | 96 |
| OX44 Ascott, Chalgrove | £480,000 | +13% | 33 |
| OX20 Woodstock, Bladon | £455,000 | -9% | 31 |
| OX39 Chinnor, Sydenham | £450,000 | +3% | 57 |
| OX10 Wallingford, Berinsfield | £447,500 | +0% | 162 |
| OX15 Bloxham, Drayton | £447,500 | +12% | 172 |
| OX9 Thame, Postcombe | £445,000 | +3% | 111 |
| OX33 Wheatley, Forest Hill | £443,000 | -8% | 26 |
| OX3 North East Oxford, Beckley | £440,000 | +2% | 173 |
| OX25 Ambrosden, Arncott | £430,000 | +18% | 75 |
| OX29 Barnard Gate, Brighthampton | £425,000 | +6% | 157 |
| OX4 East Oxford, Cowley | £412,800 | +10% | 244 |
| OX13 Southmoor, Sunningwell | £395,000 | -17% | 75 |
| OX17 Adderbury, Appletree | £394,200 | +2% | 114 |
| OX27 Ardley, Bainton | £390,000 | +0% | 44 |
| OX5 Kidlington, Yarnton | £377,500 | -1% | 112 |
| OX11 Didcot, Blewbury | £375,000 | +9% | 282 |
| OX14 Abingdon, Appleford-on-Thames | £365,000 | +4% | 261 |
| OX18 Alvescot, Asthall | £350,000 | +8% | 169 |
| OX12 Wantage, Grove | £340,000 | +0% | 183 |
| OX28 Witney | £335,400 | +10% | 190 |
| OX26 Bicester, Chesterton | £332,600 | -3% | 250 |
| OX16 Banbury | £293,000 | +5% | 285 |
Before you sell in OX: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OX'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.
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The live map plots every individual OX sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.