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North and West Oxford market report OX2 8, Oxford
The standing OX2 8 (North and West Oxford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,086 registered sales in OX2 8 (Oxford) 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 2026 median for OX2 8 (Oxford) is £528,000, from 36 registered sales, down 22% on five years earlier; the mean is £693,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,240 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,086 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 OX2 8 is a single group of streets within OX2 (Oxford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OX2 8 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 OX2 8 prices, from the sold record
In the OX2 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £528,000, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £693,100, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
OX2 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, OX2 8 homes have averaged around £6,240 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OX2 8 85% above the country at large.
The price of a typical OX2 8 home, 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 | £528,000 | £528,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £650,000 | £665,543 | 113 |
| 2024 | £670,000 | £712,348 | 55 |
| 2023 | £790,000 | £868,017 | 67 |
| 2022 | £732,500 | £858,940 | 122 |
| 2021 | £673,800 | £853,118 | 146 |
| 2020 | £685,000 | £888,802 | 76 |
| 2019 | £555,000 | £727,472 | 68 |
| 2018 | £600,000 | £799,811 | 63 |
| 2017 | £615,000 | £838,798 | 61 |
| 2016 | £518,000 | £724,687 | 85 |
| 2015 | £525,000 | £741,825 | 77 |
| 2014 | £433,500 | £614,995 | 80 |
| 2013 | £370,000 | £532,393 | 89 |
| 2012 | £315,000 | £463,641 | 88 |
| 2011 | £350,000 | £528,365 | 91 |
| 2010 | £297,000 | £465,772 | 113 |
| 2009 | £293,000 | £471,000 | 92 |
| 2008 | £293,800 | £481,600 | 78 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 126 |
| 2006 | £256,500 | £445,251 | 136 |
| 2005 | £275,000 | £489,389 | 97 |
| 2004 | £279,000 | £506,719 | 117 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 102 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 125 |
| 2001 | £175,000 | £336,429 | 121 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 97 |
| 1999 | £145,000 | £288,977 | 133 |
| 1998 | £119,500 | £241,219 | 114 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 126 |
| 1996 | £90,000 | £189,806 | 111 |
| 1995 | £83,000 | £180,429 | 81 |
In cash terms the typical OX2 8 home went from £83,000 in 1995 to £528,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 193%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 41% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX2 8 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 2020 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.8%). 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) | −18.8% | −20.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.8% | −9.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 36 sales completed in OX2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 115 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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 OX2 8 market
This is a thin market: 36 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.
What tenants pay around OX2 8
For renting purposes OX2 8 sits in Oxford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,958 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,347 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,857 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Oxford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £528,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,958 a month (£23,496 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.
What people ask about OX2 8 (North and West Oxford)
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What happens to OX2 8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 38% 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 OX2 right now
The live side of the market holds 78 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX2 district, not just OX2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Cavendish Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2
- Wolsey Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2
- Hernes Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2
"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 OX2 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in OX
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OX area. 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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OX2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX2 0 | £469,000 | 27 |
| OX2 6 | £772,500 | 32 |
| OX2 7 | £637,500 | 38 |
| OX2 9 | £497,500 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full OX2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in OX2 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OX2 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual OX2 8 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.