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Central and South Oxford market report OX1 4, Oxford
The OX1 4 (Central and South Oxford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,842 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OX1 4 (Oxford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OX1 4 (Oxford) came in at £457,500, out of 32 registered, down 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £492,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,030 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,842 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OX1 4 is one sector of OX1 (Oxford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where OX1 4 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 OX1 4 prices, from the sold record
Take the 32 registered 2026 sales in OX1 4 and the middle price, the median, is £457,500. The mean lands at £492,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in OX1 4
A square metre of OX1 4 home has cost about £6,030 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX1 4 sits 61% above the national market.
A typical OX1 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £457,500 | £457,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £495,000 | £506,837 | 68 |
| 2024 | £460,000 | £489,074 | 59 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 59 |
| 2022 | £490,000 | £574,581 | 72 |
| 2021 | £481,000 | £609,008 | 75 |
| 2020 | £421,000 | £546,256 | 58 |
| 2019 | £377,500 | £494,812 | 47 |
| 2018 | £400,000 | £533,208 | 55 |
| 2017 | £423,600 | £577,748 | 60 |
| 2016 | £438,500 | £613,466 | 54 |
| 2015 | £395,000 | £558,135 | 69 |
| 2014 | £347,500 | £492,989 | 78 |
| 2013 | £328,000 | £471,959 | 75 |
| 2012 | £290,000 | £426,844 | 71 |
| 2011 | £276,000 | £416,654 | 60 |
| 2010 | £283,000 | £443,817 | 101 |
| 2009 | £253,000 | £406,700 | 69 |
| 2008 | £302,500 | £495,861 | 56 |
| 2007 | £325,000 | £551,291 | 101 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 135 |
| 2005 | £237,200 | £422,120 | 184 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 112 |
| 2003 | £212,000 | £390,555 | 98 |
| 2002 | £200,000 | £376,298 | 111 |
| 2001 | £182,000 | £349,886 | 112 |
| 2000 | £162,200 | £318,318 | 100 |
| 1999 | £123,800 | £246,727 | 156 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 115 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 143 |
| 1996 | £92,500 | £195,078 | 122 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical OX1 4 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £457,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 163%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OX1 4 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 (+31.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.6% | −9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
OX1 4 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 119 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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 OX1 4
OX1 4 falls under Oxford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,958 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,347 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,857 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Oxford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,958 a month is £23,496 a year, which against the £457,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the OX1 4 market
This is a thin market: 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the OX1 district median, OX1 4 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
OX1 4 (Central and South Oxford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OX1 4 (Central and South Oxford)?
Is OX1 4 (Central and South Oxford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX1 4 (Central and South Oxford)?
Are OX1 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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.
OX1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 71 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX1 district, not just OX1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% 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.
"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 OX1 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.
Moving up a bedroom in OX: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the OX area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £390,000 | £512,000 (+31%) | £750,000 (+46%) | £1,175,000 (+57%) |
| Semi-detached | £285,000 | £350,000 (+23%) | £413,375 (+18%) | £550,000 (+33%) | £848,750 (+54%) |
| Terraced | £275,000 | £322,500 (+17%) | £385,000 (+19%) | £506,000 (+31%) | £848,725 (+68%) |
| Flat | £200,000 | £255,000 (+27%) | £475,000 (+86%) | £625,500 (+32%) | — |
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OX1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OX1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX1 1 | £445,500 | 14 |
| OX1 2 | £1,000,000 | 5 |
| OX1 5 | £522,500 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full OX1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OX1 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OX1 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX1 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX1 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OX1 4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.