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Chesterton market report OX26 3, Bicester
The OX26 3 (Chesterton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,346 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX26 3 (Bicester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical OX26 3 (Bicester) home changed hands for £369,000 in 2026 (median of 45 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £386,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,520 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,346 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OX26 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OX26 (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 OX26 3 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 3
Across 45 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OX26 3 home went for £369,000. The mean is £386,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
OX26 3 prices by floor area
A square metre of OX26 3 home has cost about £4,520 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OX26 3 trades 29% above the country as a whole.
A typical OX26 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £369,000 | £369,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £362,500 | £371,168 | 102 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 103 |
| 2023 | £347,500 | £381,818 | 86 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 106 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 139 |
| 2020 | £315,500 | £409,368 | 80 |
| 2019 | £318,000 | £416,822 | 85 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 112 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 127 |
| 2016 | £285,500 | £399,417 | 170 |
| 2015 | £273,000 | £385,749 | 136 |
| 2014 | £247,500 | £351,122 | 151 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 152 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 129 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 107 |
| 2010 | £207,000 | £324,629 | 130 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 119 |
| 2008 | £197,800 | £324,236 | 80 |
| 2007 | £218,000 | £369,789 | 219 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 284 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 245 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 283 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 306 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 399 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 435 |
| 2000 | £127,200 | £249,630 | 474 |
| 1999 | £111,500 | £222,214 | 643 |
| 1998 | £77,800 | £157,045 | 250 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 207 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 215 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 227 |
In cash terms the typical OX26 3 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £369,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 165%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OX26 3 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 1999 (+43.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−12.5%). 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) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 45 OX26 3 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 331 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 a year over the last five. 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.
Rents around OX26 3
For renting purposes OX26 3 sits in Cherwell. The ONS average private rent there is £1,289 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £369,000 median sold price, £1,289 a month is £15,468 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
How OX26 3 trades
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OX26 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within OX26, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
OX26 3 (Chesterton): the questions that come up
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What happens to OX26 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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
The live side of the market holds 75 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX26 district, not just OX26 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Kingfisher Way, Bicester, Oxfordshire...
- Ancil Avenue, Launton, Bicester, Oxfo...
- 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 →
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.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OX26
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OX26, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX26 1 | £401,500 | 38 |
| OX26 2 | £341,000 | 38 |
| 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 3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OX26 3'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.
Estate agents working OX26 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX26 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX26 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OX26 3 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.
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.