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North East Oxford market report OX3, Oxford
The OX3 (North East Oxford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 17,256 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OX3 (Oxford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OX3 (Oxford) came in at £435,000, out of 149 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £509,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,360 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 17,256 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OX3 is the postcode district covering North East Oxford, Beckley, Headington in Oxford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OX3 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.
The going rate for a home in OX3
In the OX3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £435,000, from 149 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £509,200, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in OX3
Per square metre, OX3 homes have averaged around £5,360 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 OX3 trades 53% above the country as a whole.
OX3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £435,000 | £435,000 | 149 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 433 |
| 2024 | £465,000 | £494,391 | 389 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 360 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 437 |
| 2021 | £430,000 | £544,435 | 502 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 331 |
| 2019 | £395,000 | £517,750 | 393 |
| 2018 | £400,000 | £533,208 | 426 |
| 2017 | £400,000 | £545,560 | 379 |
| 2016 | £375,000 | £524,629 | 425 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 511 |
| 2014 | £319,000 | £452,557 | 573 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 521 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 434 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 471 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 480 |
| 2009 | £239,000 | £384,195 | 494 |
| 2008 | £249,000 | £408,164 | 457 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 737 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 834 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 721 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 729 |
| 2003 | £207,000 | £381,344 | 715 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 702 |
| 2001 | £147,000 | £282,600 | 713 |
| 2000 | £134,000 | £262,975 | 631 |
| 1999 | £111,000 | £221,217 | 834 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 690 |
| 1997 | £83,000 | £170,216 | 662 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 641 |
| 1995 | £76,000 | £165,212 | 482 |
In cash terms the typical OX3 home went from £76,000 in 1995 to £435,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 163%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX3 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 (+22.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−5.4%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £705,000 against £262,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, OX3
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 | £705,000 | 20 | 2,654 |
| Semi-detached | £480,000 | 63 | 7,764 |
| Terraced | £420,000 | 43 | 3,484 |
| Flats | £262,000 | 23 | 3,354 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 317 sales completed in OX3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 723 sales a year before the financial crisis and 354 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.
The rental side of OX3
The local authority for OX3 is Oxford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £435,000 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 people ask about OX3 (North East Oxford)
Are property prices falling in OX3 (North East Oxford)?
Is OX3 (North East Oxford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX3 (North East Oxford)?
Will OX3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
On the market in OX3 today
Everything above is what homes in OX3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 53 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the OX3 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OX prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OX area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
OX3 ranks 17 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 OX3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX3 0 | £442,500 | 37 |
| OX3 7 | £425,000 | 39 |
| OX3 8 | £437,500 | 50 |
| OX3 9 | £387,600 | 23 |
How OX3 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 (this report) | £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% |
| OX28 | £335,800 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in OX3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OX3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Dig further
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See every individual OX3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.