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East Oxford market report OX4, Oxford
The standing OX4 (East Oxford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 24,116 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX4 (Oxford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical OX4 (Oxford) home changed hands for £415,000 in 2026 (median of 206 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £465,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,130 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 24,116 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district OX4 covering East Oxford, Cowley, Blackbird Leys sits in Oxford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where OX4 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 OX4 sells for
206 sales were registered in OX4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £415,000. The mean works out at £465,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in OX4
A square metre of OX4 home has cost about £5,130 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OX4 46% above the country at large.
A typical OX4 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 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 206 |
| 2025 | £402,500 | £412,125 | 506 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 485 |
| 2023 | £397,000 | £436,206 | 431 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 572 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 707 |
| 2020 | £358,500 | £465,161 | 402 |
| 2019 | £337,000 | £441,726 | 471 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 518 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 526 |
| 2016 | £320,500 | £448,383 | 610 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 709 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 788 |
| 2013 | £246,100 | £354,113 | 684 |
| 2012 | £244,000 | £359,138 | 577 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 603 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 629 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 660 |
| 2008 | £238,200 | £390,460 | 554 |
| 2007 | £239,200 | £405,750 | 1,014 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 1,162 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 853 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 1,006 |
| 2003 | £178,000 | £327,919 | 961 |
| 2002 | £155,500 | £292,572 | 1,107 |
| 2001 | £133,800 | £257,224 | 1,114 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 1,014 |
| 1999 | £99,700 | £198,697 | 1,176 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 1,202 |
| 1997 | £74,500 | £152,784 | 1,184 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 945 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 740 |
In cash terms the typical OX4 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 191%, 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 13% 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 OX4 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 (+25.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.8%). 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, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £772,600 against £253,500 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, OX4
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 | £772,600 | 8 | 1,399 |
| Semi-detached | £430,000 | 65 | 8,295 |
| Terraced | £430,000 | 103 | 10,019 |
| Flats | £253,500 | 30 | 4,403 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 425 OX4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,029 sales a year before the financial crisis and 440 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around OX4
The local authority for OX4 is Oxford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,958 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,347 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,857 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Oxford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £415,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,958 a month (£23,496 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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.
What people ask about OX4 (East Oxford)
Is OX4 (East Oxford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX4 (East Oxford)?
Are property prices falling in OX4 (East Oxford)?
Will OX4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What you could buy in OX4 now
Everything above is what homes in OX4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 185 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the OX4 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.
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"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 OX4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in OX
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OX area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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
OX4 ranks 4 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside OX4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OX4 1 | £620,000 | 43 |
| OX4 2 | £388,500 | 44 |
| OX4 3 | £425,500 | 53 |
| OX4 4 | £403,500 | 40 |
| OX4 6 | £325,000 | 17 |
| OX4 7 | £310,000 | 9 |
How OX4 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in OX4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.