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Alvescot market report OX18 3, Bampton, Burford, Carterton
The standing OX18 3 (Alvescot) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,550 registered sales in OX18 3 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical OX18 3 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton) home changed hands for £340,000 in 2026 (median of 41 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier), with the mean at £365,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,700 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,550 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like OX18 3 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 3 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 3 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for OX18 3 is £340,000, taken from 41 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £365,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in OX18 3
A square metre of OX18 3 home has cost about £3,700 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OX18 3 trades 19% above the country as a whole.
A typical OX18 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 103 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 105 |
| 2023 | £322,500 | £354,349 | 73 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 63 |
| 2021 | £296,000 | £374,774 | 168 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 99 |
| 2019 | £257,000 | £336,865 | 84 |
| 2018 | £302,000 | £402,572 | 93 |
| 2017 | £256,000 | £349,158 | 82 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 101 |
| 2015 | £241,000 | £340,533 | 118 |
| 2014 | £232,500 | £329,842 | 97 |
| 2013 | £190,500 | £274,110 | 88 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 71 |
| 2011 | £192,500 | £290,601 | 72 |
| 2010 | £193,200 | £302,987 | 84 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 75 |
| 2008 | £192,000 | £314,729 | 61 |
| 2007 | £192,500 | £326,534 | 141 |
| 2006 | £185,600 | £322,178 | 158 |
| 2005 | £172,500 | £306,980 | 93 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 134 |
| 2003 | £156,000 | £287,390 | 137 |
| 2002 | £131,800 | £247,981 | 152 |
| 2001 | £123,000 | £236,461 | 171 |
| 2000 | £109,000 | £213,913 | 145 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 153 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 143 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 153 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 151 |
| 1995 | £61,000 | £132,605 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical OX18 3 home went from £61,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 156%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OX18 3 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 2014 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−14.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX18 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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.
Sales activity in OX18 3
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.
OX18 3 recorded 41 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 141 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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.
Reading the OX18 3 market
This is a thin market: 41 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around OX18 3
The local authority for OX18 3 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 £340,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,277 a month (£15,324 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Asked and answered: OX18 3 (Alvescot)
Is OX18 3 (Alvescot) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX18 3 (Alvescot)?
Are property prices falling in OX18 3 (Alvescot)?
Are OX18 3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in OX18 right now
The live side of the market holds 30 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX18 district, not just OX18 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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.
What another bedroom costs in OX
Real sold prices by size across the OX area, straight 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%) | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the OX area, five years
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 1 | £318,000 | 57 |
| OX18 2 | £410,000 | 33 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in OX18 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX18 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX18 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX18 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working OX18 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX18 3.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every OX18 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.