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Ardley market report OX27 8, Bicester
The standing OX27 8 (Ardley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,156 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX27 8 (Bicester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in OX27 8 (Bicester) sold for £398,200 in 2026, the median of 16 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £447,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,120 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,156 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OX27 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OX27 (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 OX27 8 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 OX27 8 homes really sell for
Take the 16 registered 2026 sales in OX27 8 and the middle price, the median, is £398,200. The mean lands at £447,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in OX27 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in OX27 8 costs about £4,120 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OX27 8 runs 40% above it.
A typical OX27 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £398,200 | £398,200 | 16 |
| 2025 | £362,600 | £371,271 | 70 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 62 |
| 2023 | £445,000 | £488,946 | 74 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 79 |
| 2021 | £383,200 | £485,181 | 96 |
| 2020 | £375,000 | £486,570 | 71 |
| 2019 | £331,500 | £434,517 | 58 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 73 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 68 |
| 2016 | £335,000 | £468,668 | 127 |
| 2015 | £264,300 | £373,456 | 84 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 94 |
| 2013 | £212,500 | £305,766 | 79 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 47 |
| 2011 | £224,500 | £338,909 | 30 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 25 |
| 2009 | £197,000 | £316,679 | 30 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 21 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 53 |
| 2006 | £227,500 | £394,911 | 48 |
| 2005 | £207,500 | £369,266 | 52 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 65 |
| 2003 | £164,000 | £302,128 | 56 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 78 |
| 2001 | £113,100 | £217,429 | 72 |
| 2000 | £95,500 | £187,419 | 58 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 65 |
| 1998 | £65,700 | £132,620 | 88 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 253 |
| 1996 | £107,000 | £225,658 | 37 |
| 1995 | £84,500 | £183,690 | 27 |
In cash terms the typical OX27 8 home went from £84,500 in 1995 to £398,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 117%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX27 8 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 (+45.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−36.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX27 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.8% | +7.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
OX27 8 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 60 sales a year recently, against 60 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of OX27 8
The local authority for OX27 8 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 £398,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
What kind of market OX27 8 is
Only 16 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OX27 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
OX27 8 (Ardley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OX27 8 (Ardley)?
Is OX27 8 (Ardley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX27 8 (Ardley)?
Where do OX27 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in OX27 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX27 district, not just OX27 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Stratton Audley Manor, Mill Lane, Stratton Audley, Bicester
- Mill Road, Stratton Audley, Bicester,...
- Fringford Road, Caversfield, 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 OX27 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.
What another bedroom costs in OX
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%) | — |
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
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OX27
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX27, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX27 0 | £830,000 | 2 |
| OX27 7 | £366,500 | 12 |
| OX27 9 | £310,000 | 2 |
Zoom out to the full OX27 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX27 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OX27 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX27 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX27 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX27 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OX27 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX27 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OX27 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OX27 8 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.
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.