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Alvescot market report OX18 4, Bampton, Burford, Carterton

The OX18 4 (Alvescot) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,079 registered sales in OX18 4 (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.

Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the typical home in OX18 4 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton) sold for £567,500 in 2026, the median of 12 registered sales, down 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £735,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,500 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,079 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

A postcode sector like OX18 4 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.

Today's OX18 4 prices, from the sold record

Across 12 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OX18 4 home went for £567,500. The mean is £735,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

What a square metre costs in OX18 4

A square metre of OX18 4 home has cost about £5,500 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.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OX18 4 99% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical OX18 4 home went from £158,000 in 1995 to £567,500 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 65%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2005 (+59.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−30.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

How many homes change hands in OX18 4

OX18 4 recorded 12 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 89 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 a year over the last five. 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.

Reading the OX18 4 market

Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OX18 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the OX18 district median, OX18 4 sits 67% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

What homes rent for around OX18 4

For renting purposes OX18 4 sits in West Oxfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,277 a month (May 2026). 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.

Set against the £567,500 median sold price, £1,277 a month is £15,324 a year, a gross yield of 2.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.

What people ask about OX18 4 (Alvescot)

Will OX18 4 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 15% over five years in cash but down 33% 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.

On the market in OX18 today

Bedroom by bedroom: OX prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the OX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in OX18

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX18, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full OX18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX18 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in OX18 4: what the record supports

Keep digging

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX18 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

See every individual OX18 4 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.

How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.