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Lewknor market report OX49, Watlington
The OX49 (Lewknor) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,405 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OX49 (Watlington) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 19 registered 2026 sales put the OX49 (Watlington) median at £520,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £608,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,190 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,405 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district OX49 covering Watlington, Lewknor, Aston Rowant sits in Watlington. 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 OX49 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.
Today's OX49 prices, from the sold record
In the OX49 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £520,000, from 19 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £608,800, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
OX49 prices by floor area
Per square metre, OX49 homes have averaged around £5,190 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OX49 82% above the national figure.
A typical OX49 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £520,000 | £520,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 53 |
| 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 home went from £92,500 in 1995 to £520,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 159%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 20% 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 year (since 2025) | +15.6% | +12.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +0.7% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £835,000 against £240,000 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, OX49
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 | £822,500 | 6 | 879 |
| Semi-detached | £520,000 | 7 | 774 |
| Terraced | £360,000 | 5 | 589 |
| Flats | £240,000 (2025) | – | 120 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
OX49 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 73 sales a year recently, against 90 a year before 2008. 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.
What homes rent for around OX49
The local authority for OX49 is South Oxfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,381 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,025 a month here against £2,292 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £520,000 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.
What kind of market OX49 is
This is a thin market: 40 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, OX49 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
OX49 (Lewknor): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OX49 (Lewknor)?
Is OX49 (Lewknor) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX49 (Lewknor)?
Where do OX49 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
When homes in OX49 change hands
Take the 447 OX49 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: June completions lead with 12.3% of the total, December trails with 4.3%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 22 | 4.9% |
| February | 42 | 9.4% |
| March | 49 | 11.0% |
| April | 25 | 5.6% |
| May | 38 | 8.5% |
| June | 55 | 12.3% |
| July | 44 | 9.8% |
| August | 35 | 7.8% |
| September | 47 | 10.5% |
| October | 34 | 7.6% |
| November | 37 | 8.3% |
| December | 19 | 4.3% |
Moving up a bedroom in OX: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the OX area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | £345,000 | £390,000 (+13%) | £442,975 (+14%) | £555,000 (+25%) | £720,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £325,000 (+18%) | £380,000 (+17%) | £456,000 (+20%) | £599,950 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £230,000 | £295,000 (+28%) | £340,000 (+15%) | £425,000 (+25%) | £535,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £185,000 | £239,475 (+29%) | £375,000 (+57%) | £496,225 (+32%) | £610,000 (+23%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
OX49 ranks 11 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OX49, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX49 5 | £520,000 | 19 |
How OX49 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OX area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OX2 | £550,000 | -5% |
| OX49 (this report) | £520,000 | +6% |
| OX7 | £500,000 | +19% |
| OX1 | £497,500 | +8% |
| OX44 | £480,000 | +13% |
| OX20 | £455,000 | -9% |
| OX39 | £450,000 | +3% |
| OX10 | £447,500 | +0% |
| OX15 | £447,500 | +12% |
| OX9 | £445,000 | +3% |
| OX33 | £443,000 | -8% |
| OX3 | £440,000 | +2% |
| OX25 | £430,000 | +18% |
| OX29 | £425,000 | +6% |
| OX4 | £412,800 | +10% |
| OX13 | £395,000 | -17% |
| OX17 | £394,200 | +2% |
| OX27 | £390,000 | +0% |
| OX5 | £377,500 | -1% |
| OX11 | £375,000 | +9% |
| OX14 | £365,000 | +4% |
| OX18 | £350,000 | +8% |
| OX12 | £340,000 | +0% |
| OX28 | £335,400 | +10% |
Before you sell in OX49: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX49, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX49's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX49 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every OX49 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
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.