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Yarnton market report OX5 2, Kidlington
The standing OX5 2 (Yarnton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,215 HM Land Registry entries for OX5 2 (Kidlington), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in OX5 2 (Kidlington) sold for £401,000 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £477,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,590 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,215 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OX5 2 is one sector of OX5 (Kidlington): 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 OX5 2 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 OX5 2
In the OX5 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £401,000, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £477,900, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in OX5 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OX5 2 sales average about £4,590 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OX5 2 41% above the country at large.
The price of a typical OX5 2 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £401,000 | £401,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £416,000 | £425,948 | 121 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 105 |
| 2023 | £413,000 | £453,786 | 100 |
| 2022 | £408,000 | £478,427 | 137 |
| 2021 | £420,000 | £531,774 | 170 |
| 2020 | £373,000 | £483,975 | 93 |
| 2019 | £362,500 | £475,151 | 106 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 131 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 134 |
| 2016 | £390,000 | £545,614 | 144 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 140 |
| 2014 | £316,800 | £449,436 | 147 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 139 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 118 |
| 2011 | £265,000 | £400,048 | 113 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 154 |
| 2009 | £255,000 | £409,915 | 137 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 99 |
| 2007 | £261,200 | £443,068 | 148 |
| 2006 | £243,000 | £421,817 | 165 |
| 2005 | £216,000 | £384,393 | 157 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 164 |
| 2003 | £198,000 | £364,764 | 161 |
| 2002 | £184,800 | £347,700 | 150 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 146 |
| 2000 | £145,000 | £284,563 | 129 |
| 1999 | £121,000 | £241,147 | 153 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 145 |
| 1997 | £88,500 | £181,496 | 135 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 119 |
| 1995 | £76,800 | £166,951 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical OX5 2 home went from £76,800 in 1995 to £401,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 140%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX5 2 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 1998 (+24.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−10.0%). 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) | −3.6% | −5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
OX5 2 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 153 sales a year before the financial crisis and 98 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.
What homes rent for around OX5 2
The local authority for OX5 2 is Cherwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,289 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £963 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,181 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cherwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £401,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,289 a month (£15,468 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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 kind of market OX5 2 is
This is a thin market: 28 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.
OX5 2 (Yarnton): the questions that come up
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Will OX5 2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in OX5 right now
The live side of the market holds 18 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX5 district, not just OX5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 OX5 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.
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the OX area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OX5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OX5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX5 1 | £358,500 | 60 |
| OX5 3 | £500,000 | 5 |
Zoom out to the full OX5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OX5 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OX5 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the OX5 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OX5 2 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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Keep digging
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See every individual OX5 2 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.