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Grove market report OX12 9, Wantage
The standing OX12 9 (Grove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,162 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX12 9 (Wantage) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical OX12 9 (Wantage) home changed hands for £335,000 in 2026 (median of 54 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £370,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,850 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,162 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OX12 9 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 9 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 9
Take the 54 registered 2026 sales in OX12 9 and the middle price, the median, is £335,000. The mean lands at £370,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in OX12 9
By floor space, homes in OX12 9 have sold for about £3,850 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OX12 9 runs 18% above it.
OX12 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 54 |
| 2025 | £350,500 | £358,882 | 172 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 161 |
| 2023 | £368,200 | £404,562 | 142 |
| 2022 | £376,000 | £440,903 | 245 |
| 2021 | £313,000 | £396,298 | 209 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 157 |
| 2019 | £305,000 | £399,782 | 136 |
| 2018 | £317,000 | £422,567 | 183 |
| 2017 | £326,000 | £444,631 | 205 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 238 |
| 2015 | £307,500 | £434,498 | 218 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 210 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 144 |
| 2012 | £244,200 | £359,432 | 102 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 125 |
| 2010 | £277,200 | £434,721 | 152 |
| 2009 | £183,200 | £294,496 | 140 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 83 |
| 2007 | £221,000 | £374,878 | 198 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 166 |
| 2005 | £202,000 | £359,479 | 198 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 204 |
| 2003 | £201,500 | £371,212 | 201 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 142 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 137 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 134 |
| 1999 | £120,500 | £240,150 | 157 |
| 1998 | £105,000 | £211,950 | 170 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 141 |
| 1996 | £73,700 | £155,430 | 136 |
| 1995 | £69,400 | £150,865 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical OX12 9 home went from £69,400 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 122%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. 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 9 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 2010 (+51.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−17.0%). 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) | −4.4% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −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.
Sales activity in OX12 9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 54 sales completed in OX12 9. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 155 sales a year recently, against 173 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around OX12 9
For renting purposes OX12 9 sits in Vale of White Horse. The ONS average private rent there is £1,333 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £972 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,201 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £335,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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 9 is
This is a thin market: 54 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.
Asked and answered: OX12 9 (Grove)
How much did a house sell for in OX12 9 (Grove)?
Are property prices falling in OX12 9 (Grove)?
Is OX12 9 (Grove) a good place to buy a house?
Will OX12 9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 is for sale in OX12 right now
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% 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 OX12 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OX area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
OX area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 7 | £352,500 | 32 |
| OX12 8 | £280,000 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full OX12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OX12 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX12 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX12 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX12 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OX12 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX12 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual OX12 9 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.