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Lewknor market report OX49 5, Watlington
The standing OX49 5 (Lewknor) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,400 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX49 5 (Watlington) 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 middle 2026 sale in OX49 5 (Watlington) came in at £510,000, out of 16 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £612,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,190 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,400 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OX49 5 is one sector of OX49 (Watlington): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where OX49 5 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 OX49 5
The 2026 median for OX49 5 is £510,000, taken from 16 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £612,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in OX49 5
A square metre of OX49 5 home has cost about £5,190 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OX49 5 sits 79% above the national market.
OX49 5's median sold price, 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 | £510,000 | £510,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 51 |
| 2024 | £532,100 | £565,732 | 88 |
| 2023 | £485,000 | £532,897 | 89 |
| 2022 | £449,500 | £527,090 | 115 |
| 2021 | £492,500 | £623,569 | 102 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 57 |
| 2019 | £426,000 | £558,384 | 62 |
| 2018 | £460,000 | £613,189 | 43 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 67 |
| 2016 | £427,000 | £597,377 | 68 |
| 2015 | £353,800 | £499,919 | 58 |
| 2014 | £381,000 | £540,515 | 84 |
| 2013 | £373,000 | £536,710 | 55 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 50 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 51 |
| 2010 | £335,000 | £525,366 | 55 |
| 2009 | £362,500 | £582,722 | 42 |
| 2008 | £275,000 | £450,783 | 41 |
| 2007 | £335,000 | £568,253 | 87 |
| 2006 | £315,000 | £546,800 | 98 |
| 2005 | £276,200 | £491,525 | 76 |
| 2004 | £280,000 | £508,535 | 89 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 90 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 95 |
| 2001 | £190,000 | £365,265 | 103 |
| 2000 | £186,600 | £366,203 | 82 |
| 1999 | £146,400 | £291,768 | 92 |
| 1998 | £175,000 | £353,250 | 89 |
| 1997 | £120,000 | £246,096 | 109 |
| 1996 | £141,500 | £298,417 | 117 |
| 1995 | £92,500 | £201,081 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical OX49 5 home went from £92,500 in 1995 to £510,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 154%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX49 5 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 1996 (+53.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−17.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX49 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +13.3% | +10.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OX49 5
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.
The register shows 16 OX49 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 72 sales a year recently, against 90 a year before 2008. 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.
How OX49 5 trades
This is a thin market: 16 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. 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.
What homes rent for around OX49 5
For renting purposes OX49 5 sits in South Oxfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,381 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,025 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,292 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £510,000 median sold price, £1,381 a month is £16,572 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: OX49 5 (Lewknor)
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Where do OX49 5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
OX49's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 4 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX49 district, not just OX49 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every OX49 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.
Moving up a bedroom in OX: the cost
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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.
Zoom out to the full OX49 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX49 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OX49 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX49 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX49 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX49 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OX49 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OX49 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.