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Ambrosden market report OX25 5, Bicester
The standing OX25 5 (Ambrosden) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,327 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OX25 5 (Bicester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for OX25 5 (Bicester) is £410,000, from 15 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £501,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,860 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,327 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OX25 5 is one sector of OX25 (Bicester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where OX25 5 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.
What OX25 5 homes really sell for
Across 15 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OX25 5 home went for £410,000. The mean is £501,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in OX25 5
A square metre of OX25 5 home has cost about £3,860 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OX25 5 44% above the country at large.
A typical OX25 5 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £442,000 | £452,570 | 61 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 73 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 78 |
| 2022 | £385,000 | £451,456 | 129 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 149 |
| 2020 | £417,500 | £541,715 | 64 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 63 |
| 2018 | £410,000 | £546,538 | 59 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 80 |
| 2016 | £337,000 | £471,466 | 114 |
| 2015 | £395,000 | £558,135 | 76 |
| 2014 | £387,500 | £549,736 | 30 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 13 |
| 2012 | £375,000 | £551,953 | 6 |
| 2011 | £311,500 | £470,245 | 16 |
| 2010 | £285,000 | £446,953 | 11 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 15 |
| 2008 | £280,000 | £458,979 | 11 |
| 2007 | £336,000 | £569,950 | 35 |
| 2006 | £291,000 | £505,139 | 28 |
| 2005 | £231,500 | £411,977 | 18 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 17 |
| 2003 | £260,000 | £478,983 | 18 |
| 2002 | £202,500 | £381,002 | 23 |
| 2001 | £176,400 | £339,120 | 34 |
| 2000 | £180,000 | £353,250 | 13 |
| 1999 | £148,500 | £295,953 | 16 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 17 |
| 1997 | £105,500 | £216,359 | 20 |
| 1996 | £99,000 | £208,787 | 17 |
| 1995 | £103,000 | £223,906 | 8 |
In cash terms the typical OX25 5 home went from £103,000 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 83%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX25 5 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 2014 (+43.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−28.0%). 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) | −7.2% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OX25 5
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 15 OX25 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 71 sales a year over the last five years against 23 before the financial crisis. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around OX25 5
For renting purposes OX25 5 sits in Cherwell. The ONS average private rent there is £1,289 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £963 a month here against £2,181 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cherwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £410,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,289 a month (£15,468 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
The shape of the OX25 5 market
This is a thin market: 15 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.
Asked and answered: OX25 5 (Ambrosden)
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What happens to OX25 5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in OX25 today
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Camp Road, Upper Heyford, Bicester, OX25
- Ploughley Road, Ambrosden, Bicester, Bicester
- West View, Somerton, OX25
"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 OX25 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. 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%) | — |
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
The spread across the OX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
OX area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OX25
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OX25, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX25 1 | £350,000 | 9 |
| OX25 2 | £341,000 | 28 |
| OX25 3 | £390,000 | 1 |
| OX25 4 | £575,000 | 7 |
| 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.
Selling a home in OX25 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX25 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX25 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX25 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OX25 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX25 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OX25 5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.