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Chesterton market report OX26, Bicester
The OX26 (Chesterton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 26,551 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX26 (Bicester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 211 registered 2026 sales put the OX26 (Bicester) median at £330,300, down 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £359,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,220 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 26,551 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
OX26 is a postcode district covering Bicester, Chesterton, Launton 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 OX26 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.
OX26 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for OX26 is £330,300, taken from 211 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £359,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in OX26
Per square metre, OX26 homes have averaged around £4,220 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OX26 trades 16% above the country as a whole.
A typical OX26 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,300 | £330,300 | 211 |
| 2025 | £352,200 | £360,622 | 576 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 509 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 532 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 773 |
| 2021 | £342,000 | £433,016 | 986 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 559 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 617 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 682 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 735 |
| 2016 | £302,200 | £422,781 | 754 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 722 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 850 |
| 2013 | £222,500 | £320,155 | 683 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 555 |
| 2011 | £194,400 | £293,469 | 454 |
| 2010 | £193,500 | £303,458 | 468 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 481 |
| 2008 | £191,500 | £313,909 | 374 |
| 2007 | £196,000 | £332,471 | 924 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 1,063 |
| 2005 | £169,000 | £300,752 | 863 |
| 2004 | £169,000 | £306,937 | 1,149 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 1,089 |
| 2002 | £138,500 | £260,587 | 1,321 |
| 2001 | £116,500 | £223,965 | 1,467 |
| 2000 | £108,500 | £212,931 | 1,380 |
| 1999 | £92,500 | £184,348 | 1,548 |
| 1998 | £71,500 | £144,328 | 1,005 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 1,115 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 1,135 |
| 1995 | £59,500 | £129,344 | 971 |
In cash terms the typical OX26 home went from £59,500 in 1995 to £330,300 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 155%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX26 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 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £486,200 against £243,500 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, OX26
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 | £486,200 | 58 | 8,107 |
| Semi-detached | £345,500 | 50 | 7,538 |
| Terraced | £299,000 | 79 | 8,796 |
| Flats | £243,500 | 24 | 2,110 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.2% | −8.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.4% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in OX26
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
OX26 recorded 467 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,157 sales a year before the financial crisis and 520 a year over the last five. 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
The local authority for OX26 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.
Against the £330,300 median purchase price, a rent of £1,289 a month (£15,468 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
How OX26 trades
In its area's price order OX26 comes 25 of 26, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: OX26 (Chesterton)
Is OX26 (Chesterton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX26 (Chesterton)?
Are property prices falling in OX26 (Chesterton)?
Are OX26 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in OX26 right now
Everything above is what homes in OX26 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 75 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the OX26 median sold price.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
OX26 ranks 23 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 OX26, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| OX26 6 | £295,000 | 61 |
How OX26 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the OX area, and OX26 itself, which ranks 25 of 26 by median price:
| 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 | £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% |
| OX26 (this report) | £330,300 | -3% |
Selling in OX26? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX26, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX26 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX26 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OX26.
Keep digging
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See every individual OX26 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.
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.