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Alvescot market report OX18 1, Bampton, Burford, Carterton
The standing OX18 1 (Alvescot) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,772 HM Land Registry entries for OX18 1 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton), 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 2026 median for OX18 1 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton) is £318,000, from 57 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £322,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,772 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like OX18 1 is a single group of streets within OX18 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OX18 1 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.
OX18 1 sold prices: where the market stands
In the OX18 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £318,000, from 57 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £322,100, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in OX18 1
The last five years of sales put OX18 1 at roughly £3,880 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX18 1 sits 12% above the national market.
OX18 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £318,000 | £318,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 158 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 175 |
| 2023 | £307,500 | £337,867 | 148 |
| 2022 | £293,000 | £343,576 | 175 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 252 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 171 |
| 2019 | £269,000 | £352,595 | 151 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 166 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 176 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 205 |
| 2015 | £237,000 | £334,881 | 187 |
| 2014 | £213,500 | £302,887 | 201 |
| 2013 | £198,500 | £285,622 | 177 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 148 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 126 |
| 2010 | £188,000 | £294,832 | 135 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 123 |
| 2008 | £166,500 | £272,929 | 171 |
| 2007 | £183,000 | £310,419 | 348 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 397 |
| 2005 | £170,400 | £303,243 | 336 |
| 2004 | £176,000 | £319,650 | 364 |
| 2003 | £172,000 | £316,866 | 269 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 202 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 138 |
| 2000 | £87,200 | £171,130 | 108 |
| 1999 | £74,800 | £149,072 | 100 |
| 1998 | £68,800 | £138,878 | 114 |
| 1997 | £59,700 | £122,433 | 104 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 91 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 99 |
In cash terms the typical OX18 1 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £318,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 144%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX18 1 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 2003 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.6% | −5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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, 57 sales completed in OX18 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 270 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 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.
How OX18 1 trades
This is a thin market: 57 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.
What homes rent for around OX18 1
The local authority for OX18 1 is West Oxfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,277 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £934 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,041 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £318,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,277 a month (£15,324 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
OX18 1 (Alvescot): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in OX18 1 (Alvescot)?
Are property prices falling in OX18 1 (Alvescot)?
Is OX18 1 (Alvescot) a good place to buy a house?
Will OX18 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
What is for sale in OX18 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 30 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX18 district, not just OX18 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 OX18 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
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in OX18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OX18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX18 2 | £410,000 | 33 |
| OX18 3 | £340,000 | 41 |
| OX18 4 | £567,500 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full OX18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in OX18 1? 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 OX18 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX18 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX18 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OX18 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX18 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual OX18 1 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.