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Grove market report OX12, Wantage
The OX12 (Grove) 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: 15,478 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX12 (Wantage) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical OX12 (Wantage) home changed hands for £340,000 in 2026 (median of 160 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £379,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,910 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 15,478 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OX12 is the postcode district covering Wantage, Grove, Ardington in Wantage. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OX12 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 OX12 sells for
Take the 160 registered 2026 sales in OX12 and the middle price, the median, is £340,000. The mean lands at £379,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in OX12
A square metre of OX12 home has cost about £3,910 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX12 sits 19% above the national market.
OX12's median sold price, 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 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 160 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 600 |
| 2024 | £371,000 | £394,449 | 603 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 537 |
| 2022 | £377,000 | £442,076 | 830 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 842 |
| 2020 | £337,000 | £437,264 | 628 |
| 2019 | £317,500 | £416,167 | 551 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 511 |
| 2017 | £324,200 | £442,176 | 568 |
| 2016 | £305,000 | £426,698 | 547 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 521 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 468 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 376 |
| 2012 | £243,200 | £357,960 | 302 |
| 2011 | £237,000 | £357,779 | 365 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 334 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 344 |
| 2008 | £223,500 | £366,364 | 247 |
| 2007 | £229,000 | £388,448 | 489 |
| 2006 | £206,000 | £357,590 | 463 |
| 2005 | £208,000 | £370,156 | 475 |
| 2004 | £189,000 | £343,261 | 530 |
| 2003 | £191,200 | £352,237 | 488 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 491 |
| 2001 | £135,500 | £260,492 | 473 |
| 2000 | £129,200 | £253,555 | 430 |
| 1999 | £111,000 | £221,217 | 533 |
| 1998 | £92,500 | £186,718 | 490 |
| 1997 | £84,500 | £173,292 | 506 |
| 1996 | £75,500 | £159,226 | 409 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 367 |
In cash terms the typical OX12 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 123%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX12 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 2002 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX12 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.8% | −9.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £480,000 against £182,900 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, OX12
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 | £480,000 | 43 | 5,271 |
| Semi-detached | £340,000 | 54 | 4,762 |
| Terraced | £310,000 | 37 | 3,314 |
| Flats | £182,900 | 26 | 2,131 |
Sales activity in OX12
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
OX12 recorded 351 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 546 sales a year over the last five years against 480 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 shape of the OX12 market
In its area's price order OX12 comes 22 of 26, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around OX12
The local authority for OX12 is Vale of White Horse, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,333 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.
Common questions on OX12 (Grove)
Are property prices falling in OX12 (Grove)?
Is OX12 (Grove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX12 (Grove)?
Are OX12 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
OX12's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in OX12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 35 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the OX12 median sold price.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: OX prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OX area. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
OX12 ranks 19 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.
Winners and losers across the OX area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside OX12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX12 0 | £342,500 | 44 |
| OX12 7 | £352,500 | 32 |
| OX12 8 | £280,000 | 30 |
| OX12 9 | £335,000 | 54 |
How OX12 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 | £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 (this report) | £340,000 | +0% |
| OX18 | £340,000 | +5% |
| OX28 | £335,800 | +10% |
Selling in OX12? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX12, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX12's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX12 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OX12: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX12.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX12 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OX12 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.