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Grove market report OX12 7, Wantage
The standing OX12 7 (Grove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,134 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX12 7 (Wantage) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical OX12 7 (Wantage) home changed hands for £352,500 in 2026 (median of 32 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £352,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,134 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OX12 7 is one sector of OX12 (Wantage): 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 OX12 7 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 buyers actually paid in OX12 7
In the OX12 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £352,500, from 32 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £352,500, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in OX12 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OX12 7 sales average about £3,900 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OX12 7 24% above the country at large.
The price of a typical OX12 7 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £352,500 | £352,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 138 |
| 2024 | £387,600 | £412,098 | 179 |
| 2023 | £386,500 | £424,669 | 148 |
| 2022 | £387,500 | £454,388 | 235 |
| 2021 | £370,000 | £468,468 | 257 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 139 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 122 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 107 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 98 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 78 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 71 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 69 |
| 2013 | £255,000 | £366,920 | 60 |
| 2012 | £248,200 | £365,319 | 58 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 77 |
| 2010 | £239,000 | £374,814 | 56 |
| 2009 | £213,000 | £342,399 | 57 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 56 |
| 2007 | £249,000 | £422,373 | 66 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 96 |
| 2005 | £213,500 | £379,944 | 108 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 93 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 79 |
| 2002 | £167,000 | £314,209 | 81 |
| 2001 | £136,200 | £261,838 | 74 |
| 2000 | £135,800 | £266,508 | 80 |
| 1999 | £121,200 | £241,545 | 112 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 81 |
| 1997 | £84,400 | £173,087 | 89 |
| 1996 | £78,500 | £165,553 | 63 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical OX12 7 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £352,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 116%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. 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 OX12 7 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 1999 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX12 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.2% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −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
Sales per year, counted
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.
OX12 7 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 146 sales a year over the last five years against 85 before the financial crisis. 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 rental side of OX12 7
OX12 7 falls under Vale of White Horse, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,333 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £972 a month here against £2,201 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Vale of White Horse
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £352,500 median sold price, £1,333 a month is £15,996 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
What kind of market OX12 7 is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OX12 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about OX12 7 (Grove)
Are property prices falling in OX12 7 (Grove)?
Is OX12 7 (Grove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX12 7 (Grove)?
Will OX12 7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in OX12 now
Turning to what is actually available: 35 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX12 district, not just OX12 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every OX12 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OX prices by size
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.
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 OX12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX12 0 | £342,500 | 44 |
| OX12 8 | £280,000 | 30 |
| OX12 9 | £335,000 | 54 |
Zoom out to the full OX12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in OX12 7? 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 OX12 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX12 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX12 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every OX12 7 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.