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Central and South Oxford market report OX1 5, Oxford
The OX1 5 (Central and South Oxford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,742 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX1 5 (Oxford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OX1 5 (Oxford) came in at £522,500, out of 26 registered, up 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £572,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,960 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,742 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OX1 5 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 5 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.
What a home in OX1 5 sells for
Take the 26 registered 2026 sales in OX1 5 and the middle price, the median, is £522,500. The mean lands at £572,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
OX1 5 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in OX1 5 have sold for about £4,960 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OX1 5 trades 83% above the country as a whole.
OX1 5's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £522,500 | £522,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £497,500 | £509,397 | 78 |
| 2024 | £484,800 | £515,442 | 70 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 63 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 81 |
| 2021 | £436,500 | £552,665 | 106 |
| 2020 | £419,000 | £543,661 | 74 |
| 2019 | £400,500 | £524,960 | 72 |
| 2018 | £435,000 | £579,863 | 73 |
| 2017 | £390,000 | £531,921 | 75 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 95 |
| 2015 | £375,000 | £529,875 | 93 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 85 |
| 2013 | £310,000 | £446,059 | 99 |
| 2012 | £335,000 | £493,078 | 91 |
| 2011 | £303,200 | £457,715 | 60 |
| 2010 | £291,000 | £456,363 | 85 |
| 2009 | £265,000 | £425,990 | 55 |
| 2008 | £320,000 | £524,548 | 55 |
| 2007 | £310,000 | £525,846 | 93 |
| 2006 | £268,000 | £465,214 | 196 |
| 2005 | £260,000 | £462,695 | 94 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 109 |
| 2003 | £237,500 | £437,533 | 80 |
| 2002 | £207,800 | £390,974 | 108 |
| 2001 | £197,000 | £378,722 | 90 |
| 2000 | £164,500 | £322,831 | 86 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 111 |
| 1998 | £129,500 | £261,405 | 76 |
| 1997 | £109,000 | £223,537 | 96 |
| 1996 | £107,000 | £225,658 | 93 |
| 1995 | £83,200 | £180,864 | 74 |
In cash terms the typical OX1 5 home went from £83,200 in 1995 to £522,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX1 5 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 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.2%). 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 years (since 2025) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 26 sales completed in OX1 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 107 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
The shape of the OX1 5 market
This is a thin market: 26 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.
What tenants pay around OX1 5
For renting purposes OX1 5 sits in Vale of White Horse. The ONS average private rent there is £1,333 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £972 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,201, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Vale of White Horse
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £522,500 median sold price, £1,333 a month is £15,996 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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: OX1 5 (Central and South Oxford)
Are property prices falling in OX1 5 (Central and South Oxford)?
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Where do OX1 5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
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 | — | £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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OX1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX1 1 | £445,500 | 14 |
| OX1 2 | £1,000,000 | 5 |
| OX1 4 | £457,500 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full OX1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in OX1 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX1 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX1 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX1 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OX1 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX1 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OX1 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.