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Ardley market report OX27, Bicester
The standing OX27 (Ardley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,187 HM Land Registry entries for OX27 (Bicester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for OX27 (Bicester) is £385,000, from 32 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £480,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,100 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,187 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OX27 is a postcode district covering Ardley, Bainton, Baynards Green 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 OX27 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 a home in OX27 sells for
32 sales were registered in OX27 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £385,000. The mean works out at £480,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
OX27 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put OX27 at roughly £4,100 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX27 sits 35% above the national market.
The price of a typical OX27 home, 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 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £402,500 | £412,125 | 138 |
| 2024 | £422,500 | £449,204 | 128 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 112 |
| 2022 | £385,000 | £451,456 | 136 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 190 |
| 2020 | £398,500 | £517,062 | 112 |
| 2019 | £357,500 | £468,597 | 104 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 137 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 111 |
| 2016 | £335,000 | £468,668 | 186 |
| 2015 | £287,000 | £405,531 | 149 |
| 2014 | £278,800 | £395,527 | 164 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 131 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 97 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 71 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 83 |
| 2009 | £219,500 | £352,848 | 68 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 46 |
| 2007 | £284,500 | £482,591 | 154 |
| 2006 | £248,000 | £430,496 | 139 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 136 |
| 2004 | £237,200 | £430,802 | 138 |
| 2003 | £210,000 | £386,871 | 125 |
| 2002 | £188,000 | £353,720 | 155 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 159 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 131 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 157 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 162 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 330 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 110 |
| 1995 | £78,800 | £171,299 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical OX27 home went from £78,800 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 125%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 26% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX27 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 (+41.1% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−27.6%). 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) | −4.3% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £540,000 against £220,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, OX27
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 | £713,500 | 10 | 1,588 |
| Semi-detached | £370,000 | 5 | 1,205 |
| Terraced | £360,000 | 14 | 1,122 |
| Flats | £220,000 (2025) | – | 248 |
Sales activity in OX27
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.
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.
OX27 recorded 77 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 142 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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 tenants pay around OX27
The local authority for OX27 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 £385,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
What kind of market OX27 is
This is a thin market: 77 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.
Common questions on OX27 (Ardley)
How much did a house sell for in OX27 (Ardley)?
Are property prices falling in OX27 (Ardley)?
Is OX27 (Ardley) a good place to buy a house?
Are OX27 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
What is for sale in OX27 right now
Everything above is what homes in OX27 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 22 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 21% above the OX27 median sold price.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Stratton Audley Manor, Mill Lane, Stratton Audley, Bicester
- Mill Road, Stratton Audley, Bicester,...
- Fringford Road, Caversfield, Bicester, Bicester
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every OX27 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in OX
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OX area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
OX27 ranks 21 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.
OX area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside OX27, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX27 0 | £830,000 | 2 |
| OX27 7 | £366,500 | 12 |
| OX27 8 | £398,200 | 16 |
| OX27 9 | £310,000 | 2 |
How OX27 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OX area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £385,000 | -1% |
| OX5 | £375,000 | -2% |
| OX11 | £375,000 | +9% |
| OX14 | £371,200 | +6% |
| OX12 | £340,000 | +0% |
| OX18 | £340,000 | +5% |
| OX28 | £335,800 | +10% |
Before you sell in OX27: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX27, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX27 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX27 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 OX27.
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Two maps carry on from here: every OX27 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.
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.