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Central and South Oxford market report OX1, Oxford
The OX1 (Central and South Oxford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,913 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX1 (Oxford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OX1 (Oxford) came in at £500,000, out of 77 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £564,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,860 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,913 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OX1 is a postcode district covering Central and South Oxford, Kennington, Boars Hill in Oxford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where OX1 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 OX1 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for OX1 is £500,000, taken from 77 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £564,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in OX1
Per square metre, OX1 homes have averaged around £5,860 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OX1 runs 75% above it.
The price of a typical OX1 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 77 |
| 2025 | £485,000 | £496,598 | 184 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 172 |
| 2023 | £462,500 | £508,175 | 151 |
| 2022 | £495,000 | £580,444 | 198 |
| 2021 | £462,000 | £584,952 | 231 |
| 2020 | £422,500 | £548,202 | 162 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 164 |
| 2018 | £410,000 | £546,538 | 191 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 193 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 218 |
| 2015 | £390,000 | £551,070 | 207 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 210 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 231 |
| 2012 | £307,500 | £452,602 | 214 |
| 2011 | £284,000 | £428,731 | 178 |
| 2010 | £290,000 | £454,795 | 254 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 182 |
| 2008 | £310,000 | £508,155 | 165 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 272 |
| 2006 | £260,000 | £451,327 | 465 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 427 |
| 2004 | £247,500 | £449,508 | 320 |
| 2003 | £215,000 | £396,082 | 274 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 335 |
| 2001 | £170,000 | £326,816 | 452 |
| 2000 | £162,500 | £318,906 | 243 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 394 |
| 1998 | £129,000 | £260,396 | 303 |
| 1997 | £111,000 | £227,639 | 324 |
| 1996 | £98,500 | £207,732 | 286 |
| 1995 | £84,500 | £183,690 | 236 |
In cash terms the typical OX1 home went from £84,500 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX1 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £640,000 against £350,000 for a flat, 1.8 times the price.
Median by property type, OX1
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 | £640,000 | 13 | 1,553 |
| Semi-detached | £485,000 | 14 | 1,578 |
| Terraced | £636,000 | 27 | 1,875 |
| Flats | £350,000 | 23 | 2,907 |
What OX1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
OX1 recorded 159 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 349 sales a year before the financial crisis and 156 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around OX1
OX1 falls under Oxford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,958 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,347 a month here against £2,857 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Oxford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,958 a month (£23,496 a year) works out at a 4.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the OX1 market
OX1 sits 3 of 26 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
OX1 (Central and South Oxford): the questions that come up
Is OX1 (Central and South Oxford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX1 (Central and South Oxford)?
Are property prices falling in OX1 (Central and South Oxford)?
Are OX1 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
What is for sale in OX1 right now
Everything above is what homes in OX1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 71 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the OX1 median sold price.
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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in OX
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OX area, from the Land Registry record. 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
OX1 ranks 8 of 26 in the OX area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OX1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX1 1 | £445,500 | 14 |
| OX1 2 | £1,000,000 | 5 |
| OX1 4 | £457,500 | 32 |
| OX1 5 | £522,500 | 26 |
How OX1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OX area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OX2 | £540,000 | -7% |
| OX49 | £510,000 | +4% |
| OX1 (this report) | £500,000 | +8% |
| OX7 | £500,000 | +19% |
| OX33 | £483,000 | +0% |
| OX15 | £452,500 | +13% |
| OX39 | £450,000 | +3% |
| OX9 | £447,500 | +3% |
| OX10 | £443,000 | -1% |
| OX20 | £441,200 | -12% |
| OX29 | £440,000 | +9% |
| OX3 | £435,000 | +1% |
| OX44 | £435,000 | +2% |
| OX4 | £415,000 | +11% |
| OX25 | £407,500 | +12% |
| OX13 | £402,500 | -15% |
| OX17 | £400,000 | +4% |
| OX27 | £385,000 | -1% |
| OX5 | £375,000 | -2% |
| OX11 | £375,000 | +9% |
| OX14 | £371,200 | +6% |
| OX12 | £340,000 | +0% |
| OX18 | £340,000 | +5% |
| OX28 | £335,800 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in OX1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OX1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OX1.
Go deeper
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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.