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Chesterton market report OX26 6, Bicester
The standing OX26 6 (Chesterton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,718 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX26 6 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 61 registered 2026 sales put the OX26 6 (Bicester) median at £295,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £324,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,310 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,718 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
OX26 6 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 6 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 6
In the OX26 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,000, from 61 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £324,200, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
OX26 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put OX26 6 at roughly £4,310 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 OX26 6 4% above the country at large.
OX26 6's median sold price, 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 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £333,800 | £341,782 | 196 |
| 2024 | £288,800 | £307,054 | 132 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 121 |
| 2022 | £294,000 | £344,749 | 158 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 220 |
| 2020 | £306,200 | £397,301 | 126 |
| 2019 | £297,000 | £389,296 | 143 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 169 |
| 2017 | £283,000 | £385,984 | 261 |
| 2016 | £272,000 | £380,531 | 169 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 188 |
| 2014 | £213,500 | £302,887 | 229 |
| 2013 | £191,000 | £274,830 | 199 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 165 |
| 2011 | £189,000 | £285,317 | 173 |
| 2010 | £182,000 | £285,423 | 144 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 160 |
| 2008 | £196,800 | £322,597 | 158 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 358 |
| 2006 | £172,600 | £299,612 | 379 |
| 2005 | £165,500 | £294,523 | 297 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 427 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 423 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 506 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 553 |
| 2000 | £104,000 | £204,100 | 506 |
| 1999 | £80,500 | £160,432 | 447 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 361 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 447 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 494 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 348 |
In cash terms the typical OX26 6 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 126%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX26 6 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 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.6%). 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) | −11.6% | −13.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 61 OX26 6 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 431 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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.
What kind of market OX26 6 is
Against the OX26 district median, OX26 6 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around OX26 6
The local authority for OX26 6 is Cherwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,289 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,289 a month is £15,468 a year, which against the £295,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
Common questions on OX26 6 (Chesterton)
How much did a house sell for in OX26 6 (Chesterton)?
Are property prices falling in OX26 6 (Chesterton)?
Is OX26 6 (Chesterton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to OX26 6 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
OX26's current homes for sale
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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.
Moving up a bedroom in OX: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OX area, 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 3 | £369,000 | 45 |
| OX26 4 | £310,000 | 25 |
| OX26 5 | £380,000 | 4 |
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 6: 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 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX26 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX26 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OX26 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX26 6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX26 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual OX26 6 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.