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Alvescot market report OX18, Bampton, Burford, Carterton
The OX18 (Alvescot) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 14,707 HM Land Registry entries for OX18 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 143 registered 2026 sales put the OX18 (Bampton, Burford, Carterton) median at £340,000, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £398,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,180 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 14,707 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district OX18 covering Alvescot, Asthall, Aston sits in Bampton, Burford, Carterton. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where OX18 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.
Today's OX18 prices, from the sold record
Across 143 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OX18 home went for £340,000. The mean is £398,700, 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
A square metre of OX18 home has cost about £4,180 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 runs 19% above it.
A typical OX18 home, priced year by year (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 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 143 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 438 |
| 2024 | £355,000 | £377,438 | 434 |
| 2023 | £345,000 | £379,071 | 368 |
| 2022 | £368,000 | £431,522 | 440 |
| 2021 | £322,800 | £408,706 | 678 |
| 2020 | £320,000 | £415,207 | 433 |
| 2019 | £292,500 | £383,397 | 377 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 430 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 409 |
| 2016 | £282,400 | £395,080 | 456 |
| 2015 | £253,000 | £357,489 | 438 |
| 2014 | £242,200 | £343,603 | 460 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 393 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 339 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 314 |
| 2010 | £213,000 | £334,039 | 355 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 312 |
| 2008 | £188,000 | £308,172 | 339 |
| 2007 | £207,500 | £351,978 | 687 |
| 2006 | £196,000 | £340,231 | 773 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 593 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 691 |
| 2003 | £177,000 | £326,077 | 611 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 606 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 569 |
| 2000 | £119,000 | £233,538 | 465 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 467 |
| 1998 | £87,000 | £175,616 | 427 |
| 1997 | £76,500 | £156,886 | 452 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 441 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 369 |
In cash terms the typical OX18 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 133%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX18 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 (+19.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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 £505,000 against £190,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, OX18
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 | £505,000 | 45 | 4,964 |
| Semi-detached | £342,500 | 46 | 4,373 |
| Terraced | £320,000 | 31 | 3,719 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 21 | 1,651 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.3% | −11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 314 OX18 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 624 sales a year before the financial crisis and 365 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.
How OX18 trades
Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, OX18 ranks 23 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around OX18
For renting purposes OX18 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.
Average monthly rent by size, West Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £340,000 median sold price, £1,277 a month is £15,324 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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 (Alvescot)
Are property prices falling in OX18 (Alvescot)?
Is OX18 (Alvescot) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX18 (Alvescot)?
Where do OX18 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
OX18's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in OX18 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 30 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 46% above the OX18 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every OX18 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
OX18 ranks 10 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.
OX area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside OX18, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX18 1 | £318,000 | 57 |
| OX18 2 | £410,000 | 33 |
| OX18 3 | £340,000 | 41 |
| OX18 4 | £567,500 | 12 |
How OX18 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 | £340,000 | +0% |
| OX18 (this report) | £340,000 | +5% |
| OX28 | £335,800 | +10% |
Selling in OX18? 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 OX18, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX18's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX18 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every OX18 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.
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.