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North East Oxford market report OX3 8, Oxford
The OX3 8 (North East Oxford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,450 HM Land Registry entries for OX3 8 (Oxford), 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical OX3 8 (Oxford) home changed hands for £437,500 in 2026 (median of 50 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £466,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,980 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,450 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like OX3 8 is a single group of streets within OX3 (Oxford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OX3 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 OX3 8 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for OX3 8 is £437,500, taken from 50 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £466,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in OX3 8
Per square metre, OX3 8 homes have averaged around £4,980 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX3 8 sits 54% above the national market.
A typical OX3 8 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 | £437,500 | £437,500 | 50 |
| 2025 | £425,000 | £435,163 | 119 |
| 2024 | £430,000 | £457,178 | 115 |
| 2023 | £401,200 | £440,821 | 104 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 121 |
| 2021 | £406,000 | £514,048 | 136 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 94 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 113 |
| 2018 | £363,800 | £484,952 | 150 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 120 |
| 2016 | £358,300 | £501,265 | 150 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 169 |
| 2014 | £298,000 | £422,765 | 171 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 151 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 144 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 156 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 140 |
| 2009 | £238,000 | £382,587 | 163 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 129 |
| 2007 | £249,500 | £423,221 | 245 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 283 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 183 |
| 2004 | £217,000 | £394,114 | 203 |
| 2003 | £207,000 | £381,344 | 255 |
| 2002 | £176,000 | £331,142 | 255 |
| 2001 | £142,000 | £272,988 | 252 |
| 2000 | £128,000 | £251,200 | 207 |
| 1999 | £103,000 | £205,274 | 261 |
| 1998 | £96,500 | £194,792 | 227 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 253 |
| 1996 | £72,700 | £153,321 | 196 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical OX3 8 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £437,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 192%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX3 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 2000 (+24.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.8%). 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) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
OX3 8 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 235 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
Rents around OX3 8
OX3 8 falls under Oxford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,958 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,347 a month here against £2,857 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Oxford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £437,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,958 a month (£23,496 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
What kind of market OX3 8 is
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OX3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
OX3 8 (North East Oxford): the questions that come up
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Is OX3 8 (North East Oxford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX3 8 (North East Oxford)?
Where do OX3 8 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
OX3's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 53 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX3 district, not just OX3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Demesne Furze, Headington, Oxford, OX3
- Copse Lane, Marston, Oxford
- Bluebell Mews, Headington, Oxford, Ox...
"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 OX3 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.
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. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OX3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OX3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX3 0 | £442,500 | 37 |
| OX3 7 | £425,000 | 39 |
| OX3 9 | £387,600 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full OX3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OX3 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 OX3 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX3 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX3 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OX3 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX3 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OX3 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual OX3 8 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.