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Grove market report OX12 8, Wantage
The OX12 8 (Grove) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,737 HM Land Registry entries for OX12 8 (Wantage), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in OX12 8 (Wantage) sold for £280,000 in 2026, the median of 30 registered sales, down 20% on five years earlier. The mean was £398,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,030 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,737 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OX12 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OX12 (Wantage). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where OX12 8 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.
OX12 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The OX12 8 median stands at £280,000 for 2026, built from 30 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £398,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in OX12 8
Per square metre, OX12 8 homes have averaged around £4,030 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, OX12 8 runs 2% below it.
A typical OX12 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 83 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 84 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 77 |
| 2022 | £382,500 | £448,525 | 107 |
| 2021 | £351,500 | £445,044 | 112 |
| 2020 | £373,000 | £483,975 | 127 |
| 2019 | £352,500 | £462,043 | 152 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 108 |
| 2017 | £285,000 | £388,711 | 129 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 102 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 103 |
| 2014 | £266,000 | £377,367 | 90 |
| 2013 | £225,500 | £324,472 | 97 |
| 2012 | £302,500 | £445,242 | 58 |
| 2011 | £252,200 | £380,725 | 87 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 59 |
| 2009 | £207,500 | £333,558 | 50 |
| 2008 | £233,400 | £382,592 | 44 |
| 2007 | £248,500 | £421,525 | 83 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 73 |
| 2005 | £228,500 | £406,638 | 71 |
| 2004 | £204,500 | £371,412 | 67 |
| 2003 | £209,000 | £385,029 | 70 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 110 |
| 2001 | £162,500 | £312,398 | 97 |
| 2000 | £158,500 | £311,056 | 77 |
| 1999 | £109,200 | £217,630 | 87 |
| 1998 | £106,000 | £213,969 | 94 |
| 1997 | £92,000 | £188,673 | 87 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 63 |
| 1995 | £75,900 | £164,995 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical OX12 8 home went from £75,900 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 70%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 42% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX12 8 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 (+45.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−27.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −27.3% | −29.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.4% | −8.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.5% | −4.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.7% |
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.
Sales activity in OX12 8
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.
OX12 8 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 76 sales a year recently, against 81 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around OX12 8
The local authority for OX12 8 is Vale of White Horse, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,333 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,333 a month is £15,996 a year, which against the £280,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
What kind of market OX12 8 is
This is a thin market: 30 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the OX12 district median, OX12 8 sits 18% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: OX12 8 (Grove)
Is OX12 8 (Grove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX12 8 (Grove)?
Are property prices falling in OX12 8 (Grove)?
What happens to OX12 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 20% over five years in cash but down 37% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
OX12's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 35 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX12 district, not just OX12 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 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. 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.
OX area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OX12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OX12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX12 0 | £342,500 | 44 |
| OX12 7 | £352,500 | 32 |
| 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 in OX12 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX12 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX12 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX12 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OX12 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OX12 8 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.