Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,475 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX49 (Watlington) 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 data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
OX49 is the postcode district covering Watlington, Lewknor, Aston Rowant in Watlington. 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 OX49 sits
Click the map to open OX49 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£500,000median sold price, 2026
+4%five-year change (cash)
49sales in the last 12 months
3.3%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in OX49 sells for
The 2026 median in OX49 is £500,000, from 13 registered sales; the mean, £521,500, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so OX49 trades 82% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OX49 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£500,000
£500,000
13
2025
£450,000
£450,000
51
2024
£530,000
£550,339
95
2023
£488,800
£524,529
94
2022
£449,800
£515,124
130
2021
£480,000
£593,548
106
2020
£498,000
£631,074
69
2019
£410,000
£524,861
69
2018
£470,000
£611,887
49
2017
£440,000
£586,100
77
2016
£435,000
£594,356
75
2015
£357,500
£493,350
61
2014
£372,500
£516,114
86
2013
£373,000
£524,175
55
2012
£310,000
£445,625
50
2011
£300,000
£442,308
51
2010
£335,000
£513,097
55
2009
£362,500
£569,113
42
2008
£275,000
£440,255
41
2007
£335,000
£554,982
87
2006
£315,000
£534,029
98
2005
£276,200
£480,045
76
2004
£280,000
£496,658
89
2003
£250,000
£449,804
90
2002
£250,000
£459,387
95
2001
£190,000
£356,735
103
2000
£186,600
£357,650
82
1999
£146,400
£284,953
92
1998
£175,000
£345,000
89
1997
£120,000
£240,348
109
1996
£141,500
£291,448
117
1995
£92,500
£196,385
79
In cash terms the typical OX49 home went from £92,500 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 155%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 21% 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 OX49 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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+11.1%
+11.1%
5 years (since 2021)
+0.8%
−3.4%
10 years (since 2016)
+1.4%
−1.7%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.3%
−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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
OX49 recorded 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 77 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.
What homes rent for around OX49
OX49 falls under South Oxfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,381 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,025 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,292, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, South Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £500,000 median sold price, £1,381 a month is £16,572 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
Will OX49 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
OX49 ranks 12 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.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OX49, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.