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Ambrosden market report OX25, Bicester
The OX25 (Ambrosden) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,606 registered sales in OX25 (Bicester) 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: the 2026 median for OX25 (Bicester) is £407,500, from 64 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £465,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,030 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,606 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OX25 is a postcode district covering Ambrosden, Arncott, Blackthorn in Bicester. 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 OX25 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.
The going rate for a home in OX25
64 sales were registered in OX25 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £407,500. The mean works out at £465,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in OX25
The last five years of sales put OX25 at roughly £4,030 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OX25 43% above the country at large.
The price of a typical OX25 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £407,500 | £407,500 | 64 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 235 |
| 2024 | £417,500 | £443,888 | 256 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 238 |
| 2022 | £381,800 | £447,704 | 286 |
| 2021 | £363,000 | £459,605 | 412 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 241 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 204 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 157 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 203 |
| 2016 | £337,000 | £471,466 | 235 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 212 |
| 2014 | £291,500 | £413,544 | 170 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 116 |
| 2012 | £287,500 | £423,164 | 95 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 87 |
| 2010 | £269,000 | £421,861 | 96 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 105 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 96 |
| 2007 | £266,500 | £452,058 | 176 |
| 2006 | £245,500 | £426,157 | 201 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 122 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 151 |
| 2003 | £171,200 | £315,392 | 242 |
| 2002 | £168,500 | £317,031 | 192 |
| 2001 | £170,000 | £326,816 | 174 |
| 2000 | £168,000 | £329,700 | 125 |
| 1999 | £143,800 | £286,586 | 164 |
| 1998 | £105,000 | £211,950 | 193 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 161 |
| 1996 | £100,000 | £210,896 | 109 |
| 1995 | £86,500 | £188,038 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical OX25 home went from £86,500 in 1995 to £407,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 117%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX25 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 (+46.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−25.0%). 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) | −3.0% | −5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £563,500 against £250,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, OX25
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 | £577,500 | 28 | 2,510 |
| Semi-detached | £381,200 | 14 | 1,600 |
| Terraced | £330,800 | 20 | 1,280 |
| Flats | £250,000 (2025) | – | 166 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 150 OX25 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 216 sales a year over the last five years against 173 before the financial crisis. 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.
The rental side of OX25
The local authority for OX25 is Cherwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,289 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,289 a month is £15,468 a year, which against the £407,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about OX25 (Ambrosden)
How much did a house sell for in OX25 (Ambrosden)?
Are property prices falling in OX25 (Ambrosden)?
Is OX25 (Ambrosden) a good place to buy a house?
Are OX25 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What is for sale in OX25 right now
Everything above is what homes in OX25 sold for. The live side of the market holds 33 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the OX25 median sold price.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
OX25 ranks 3 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OX25, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OX25 1 | £350,000 | 9 |
| OX25 2 | £341,000 | 28 |
| OX25 3 | £390,000 | 1 |
| OX25 4 | £575,000 | 7 |
| OX25 5 | £410,000 | 15 |
| OX25 6 | £607,500 | 4 |
How OX25 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in OX25? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OX25's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OX25.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX25 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual OX25 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.
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.