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Alvescot market report OX18 2, Bampton, Burford, Carterton
The OX18 2 (Alvescot) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,306 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX18 2 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton) 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 33 registered 2026 sales put the OX18 2 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton) median at £410,000, down 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £450,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,280 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,306 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
OX18 2 is one sector of OX18 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton): 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 OX18 2 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 OX18 2
33 sales were registered in OX18 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £410,000. The mean works out at £450,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in OX18 2
A square metre of OX18 2 home has cost about £4,280 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OX18 2 runs 44% above it.
A typical OX18 2 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 100 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 87 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 79 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 113 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 159 |
| 2020 | £405,000 | £525,496 | 86 |
| 2019 | £362,500 | £475,151 | 92 |
| 2018 | £385,000 | £513,212 | 121 |
| 2017 | £358,800 | £489,367 | 110 |
| 2016 | £365,000 | £510,639 | 96 |
| 2015 | £322,500 | £455,693 | 78 |
| 2014 | £290,000 | £411,416 | 106 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 81 |
| 2012 | £290,000 | £426,844 | 79 |
| 2011 | £252,500 | £381,178 | 60 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 88 |
| 2009 | £280,000 | £450,102 | 57 |
| 2008 | £230,500 | £377,838 | 70 |
| 2007 | £262,600 | £445,443 | 118 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 136 |
| 2005 | £219,000 | £389,732 | 98 |
| 2004 | £241,200 | £438,066 | 106 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 126 |
| 2002 | £181,500 | £341,491 | 152 |
| 2001 | £152,000 | £292,212 | 158 |
| 2000 | £150,000 | £294,375 | 99 |
| 1999 | £112,500 | £224,207 | 106 |
| 1998 | £99,800 | £201,453 | 120 |
| 1997 | £98,000 | £200,978 | 147 |
| 1996 | £81,600 | £172,091 | 156 |
| 1995 | £80,500 | £174,995 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical OX18 2 home went from £80,500 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 134%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX18 2 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−13.8%). 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) | −10.9% | −13.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.2% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
The register shows 33 OX18 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 124 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 a year over the last five. 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.
The shape of the OX18 2 market
This is a thin market: 33 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. Within OX18, this sector trades 21% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around OX18 2
OX18 2 falls under West Oxfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £410,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,277 a month (£15,324 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
Common questions on OX18 2 (Alvescot)
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Are OX18 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% 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.
OX18's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 30 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX18 district, not just OX18 2: 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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"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in OX
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in OX18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OX18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX18 1 | £318,000 | 57 |
| 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 2? 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 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX18 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX18 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OX18 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX18 2.
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See every individual OX18 2 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.
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.