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Chesterton market report OX26 4, Bicester
The standing OX26 4 (Chesterton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,535 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OX26 4 (Bicester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for OX26 4 (Bicester) is £310,000, from 25 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £335,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,120 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,535 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OX26 4 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 4 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 buyers actually paid in OX26 4
The OX26 4 median stands at £310,000 for 2026, built from 25 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £335,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in OX26 4
A square metre of OX26 4 home has cost about £4,120 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX26 4 sits 9% above the national market.
A typical OX26 4 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 62 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 72 |
| 2023 | £328,000 | £360,392 | 64 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 87 |
| 2021 | £280,500 | £355,149 | 110 |
| 2020 | £272,500 | £353,574 | 56 |
| 2019 | £302,500 | £396,505 | 84 |
| 2018 | £277,500 | £369,913 | 84 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 73 |
| 2016 | £271,200 | £379,411 | 70 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 87 |
| 2014 | £232,000 | £329,133 | 103 |
| 2013 | £191,200 | £275,118 | 111 |
| 2012 | £178,000 | £261,994 | 81 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 53 |
| 2010 | £177,000 | £277,582 | 63 |
| 2009 | £172,000 | £276,491 | 73 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 54 |
| 2007 | £185,800 | £315,169 | 120 |
| 2006 | £167,500 | £290,759 | 147 |
| 2005 | £161,000 | £286,515 | 116 |
| 2004 | £153,500 | £278,786 | 178 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 154 |
| 2002 | £128,000 | £240,831 | 195 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 175 |
| 2000 | £91,200 | £178,980 | 142 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 183 |
| 1998 | £70,800 | £142,915 | 178 |
| 1997 | £63,400 | £130,021 | 180 |
| 1996 | £57,200 | £120,632 | 160 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 195 |
In cash terms the typical OX26 4 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 155%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX26 4 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 2002 (+21.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−9.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.1% | −8.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in OX26 4
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 25 sales completed in OX26 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 153 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 a year over the last five. 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 rental side of OX26 4
The local authority for OX26 4 is Cherwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,289 a month is £15,468 a year, which against the £310,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
The shape of the OX26 4 market
This is a thin market: 25 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: OX26 4 (Chesterton)
Are property prices falling in OX26 4 (Chesterton)?
Is OX26 4 (Chesterton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX26 4 (Chesterton)?
Will OX26 4 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Banks Furlong, Chesterton, Bicester, Bicester
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 OX26 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. 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.
OX area districts: five years of change
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 1 | £401,500 | 38 |
| OX26 2 | £341,000 | 38 |
| OX26 3 | £369,000 | 45 |
| 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.
Before you sell in OX26 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX26 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX26 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX26 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OX26 4.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about OX26 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OX26 4 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.
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.