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Chesterton market report OX26 1, Bicester
The standing OX26 1 (Chesterton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,502 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OX26 1 (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 OX26 1 (Bicester) is £401,500, from 38 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier; the mean is £403,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,030 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,502 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OX26 1 is one sector of OX26 (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 OX26 1 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 OX26 1
The OX26 1 median stands at £401,500 for 2026, built from 38 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £403,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in OX26 1
A square metre of OX26 1 home has cost about £4,030 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OX26 1 41% above the national figure.
The price of a typical OX26 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £401,500 | £401,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £425,000 | £435,163 | 76 |
| 2024 | £490,000 | £520,971 | 99 |
| 2023 | £435,000 | £477,959 | 169 |
| 2022 | £437,500 | £513,019 | 262 |
| 2021 | £401,200 | £507,971 | 314 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 179 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 189 |
| 2018 | £395,000 | £526,542 | 177 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 151 |
| 2016 | £370,000 | £517,634 | 198 |
| 2015 | £370,000 | £522,810 | 135 |
| 2014 | £335,000 | £475,256 | 178 |
| 2013 | £335,000 | £482,032 | 73 |
| 2012 | £275,000 | £404,766 | 41 |
| 2011 | £323,500 | £488,361 | 7 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 8 |
| 2009 | £325,000 | £522,440 | 11 |
| 2008 | £224,000 | £367,183 | 7 |
| 2007 | £405,800 | £688,350 | 12 |
| 2006 | £275,000 | £477,365 | 18 |
| 2005 | £276,400 | £491,881 | 16 |
| 2004 | £224,000 | £406,828 | 15 |
| 2003 | £199,500 | £367,527 | 11 |
| 2002 | £220,000 | £413,928 | 9 |
| 2001 | £167,800 | £322,587 | 22 |
| 2000 | £173,000 | £339,513 | 19 |
| 1999 | £95,800 | £190,924 | 16 |
| 1998 | £81,000 | £163,504 | 11 |
| 1997 | £116,200 | £238,303 | 12 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 13 |
| 1995 | £72,800 | £158,256 | 16 |
In cash terms the typical OX26 1 home went from £72,800 in 1995 to £401,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 154%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 42% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX26 1 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 2000 (+80.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−44.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX26 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.5% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 38 sales completed in OX26 1. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 129 sales a year over the last five years against 15 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.
What homes rent for around OX26 1
OX26 1 falls under Cherwell, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,289 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £963 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,181, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cherwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £401,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,289 a month (£15,468 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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 OX26 1 market
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OX26 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the OX26 district median, OX26 1 sits 22% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about OX26 1 (Chesterton)
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What happens to OX26 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
On the market in OX26 today
Turning to what is actually available: 75 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX26 district, not just OX26 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Banks Furlong, Chesterton, Bicester, Bicester
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every OX26 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in OX26
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX26, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX26 2 | £341,000 | 38 |
| OX26 3 | £369,000 | 45 |
| OX26 4 | £310,000 | 25 |
| OX26 5 | £380,000 | 4 |
| OX26 6 | £295,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full OX26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX26 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in OX26 1? 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 OX26 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX26 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX26 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OX26 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX26 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OX26 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OX26 1 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.
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.