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North and West Oxford market report OX2, Oxford
The standing OX2 (North and West Oxford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 19,385 registered sales in OX2 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical OX2 (Oxford) home changed hands for £540,000 in 2026 (median of 181 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £695,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,540 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 19,385 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OX2 is a postcode district covering North and West Oxford, Botley, North Hinksey in Oxford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where OX2 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.
OX2 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for OX2 is £540,000, taken from 181 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £695,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
OX2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in OX2 costs about £6,540 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OX2 89% above the country at large.
A typical OX2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £540,000 | £540,000 | 181 |
| 2025 | £613,500 | £628,171 | 536 |
| 2024 | £600,000 | £637,923 | 468 |
| 2023 | £623,500 | £685,074 | 383 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 544 |
| 2021 | £580,000 | £734,355 | 664 |
| 2020 | £550,000 | £713,636 | 449 |
| 2019 | £490,000 | £642,273 | 434 |
| 2018 | £550,000 | £733,160 | 431 |
| 2017 | £500,000 | £681,950 | 446 |
| 2016 | £500,000 | £699,505 | 526 |
| 2015 | £475,800 | £672,305 | 602 |
| 2014 | £400,000 | £567,470 | 631 |
| 2013 | £395,000 | £568,366 | 629 |
| 2012 | £375,500 | £552,689 | 539 |
| 2011 | £385,000 | £581,202 | 569 |
| 2010 | £364,000 | £570,846 | 671 |
| 2009 | £297,500 | £478,234 | 593 |
| 2008 | £365,000 | £598,312 | 497 |
| 2007 | £335,000 | £568,253 | 719 |
| 2006 | £296,000 | £513,818 | 894 |
| 2005 | £285,000 | £507,185 | 654 |
| 2004 | £290,000 | £526,697 | 761 |
| 2003 | £275,000 | £506,617 | 690 |
| 2002 | £248,000 | £466,610 | 859 |
| 2001 | £218,700 | £420,440 | 860 |
| 2000 | £185,000 | £363,063 | 654 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 740 |
| 1998 | £135,000 | £272,507 | 779 |
| 1997 | £119,700 | £245,481 | 773 |
| 1996 | £93,000 | £196,133 | 673 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 536 |
In cash terms the typical OX2 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £540,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 148%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 26% 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 OX2 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 1997 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.5%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 27% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £750,000 against £347,500 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, OX2
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 | £750,000 | 45 | 4,268 |
| Semi-detached | £630,000 | 39 | 5,294 |
| Terraced | £550,000 | 41 | 4,735 |
| Flats | £347,500 | 56 | 5,088 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.0% | −14.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 437 OX2 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 761 sales a year before the financial crisis and 422 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.
What tenants pay around OX2
For renting purposes OX2 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 £540,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,958 a month (£23,496 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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 kind of market OX2 is
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. By median price, OX2 presently tops its postcode area.
Asked and answered: OX2 (North and West Oxford)
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How much did a house sell for in OX2 (North and West Oxford)?
Are OX2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% 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
Everything above is what homes in OX2 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 78 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the OX2 median sold price.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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 OX2 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
OX2 ranks 24 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.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside OX2, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX2 0 | £469,000 | 27 |
| OX2 6 | £772,500 | 32 |
| OX2 7 | £637,500 | 38 |
| OX2 8 | £528,000 | 36 |
| OX2 9 | £497,500 | 48 |
How OX2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OX area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OX2 (this report) | £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 | £340,000 | +5% |
| OX28 | £335,800 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in OX2? 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
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The live map plots every individual OX2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.