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Ambrosden market report OX25 2, Bicester
The standing OX25 2 (Ambrosden) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,016 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX25 2 (Bicester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in OX25 2 (Bicester) sold for £341,000 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier. The mean was £402,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,016 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OX25 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OX25 (Bicester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where OX25 2 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.
OX25 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 28 registered 2026 sales in OX25 2 and the middle price, the median, is £341,000. The mean lands at £402,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in OX25 2
Per square metre, OX25 2 homes have averaged around £3,750 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OX25 2 trades 20% above the country as a whole.
A typical OX25 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £341,000 | £341,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 113 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 127 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 93 |
| 2022 | £355,000 | £416,278 | 97 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 168 |
| 2020 | £328,800 | £426,625 | 122 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 86 |
| 2018 | £290,100 | £386,709 | 48 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 64 |
| 2016 | £331,000 | £463,072 | 62 |
| 2015 | £345,000 | £487,485 | 73 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 45 |
| 2013 | £187,000 | £269,074 | 30 |
| 2012 | £234,000 | £344,419 | 36 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 29 |
| 2010 | £227,500 | £356,779 | 17 |
| 2009 | £183,200 | £294,496 | 24 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 45 |
| 2007 | £183,500 | £311,267 | 62 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 67 |
| 2005 | £167,500 | £298,082 | 31 |
| 2004 | £234,500 | £425,898 | 38 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 116 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 77 |
| 2001 | £126,800 | £243,767 | 44 |
| 2000 | £127,500 | £250,219 | 31 |
| 1999 | £112,500 | £224,207 | 41 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 82 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 79 |
| 1996 | £113,000 | £238,312 | 21 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 20 |
In cash terms the typical OX25 2 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £341,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 112%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2015, and today's median remains roughly 30% under it: a 2015 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX25 2 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 2004 (+73.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−48.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX25 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
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 OX25 2
The year-by-year sales count
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.
OX25 2 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 92 sales a year over the last five years against 58 before the financial crisis. 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.
The shape of the OX25 2 market
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OX25 2 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. Within OX25, this sector trades 16% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around OX25 2
For renting purposes OX25 2 sits in Cherwell. The ONS average private rent there is £1,289 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £963 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,181 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cherwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £341,000 median sold price, £1,289 a month is £15,468 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 OX25 2 (Ambrosden)
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What happens to OX25 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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 OX25 right now
The live side of the market holds 33 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX25 district, not just OX25 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Camp Road, Upper Heyford, Bicester, OX25
- Ploughley Road, Ambrosden, Bicester, Bicester
- West View, Somerton, OX25
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 OX25 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OX prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OX area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OX25
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX25, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX25 1 | £350,000 | 9 |
| OX25 3 | £390,000 | 1 |
| OX25 4 | £575,000 | 7 |
| OX25 5 | £410,000 | 15 |
| OX25 6 | £607,500 | 4 |
Zoom out to the full OX25 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX25 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OX25 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX25 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX25 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX25 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OX25 2.
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Two maps carry on from here: every OX25 2 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.