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Postcombe market report OX9 3, Thame
The standing OX9 3 (Postcombe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,536 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OX9 3 (Thame) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for OX9 3 (Thame) is £437,500, from 63 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £469,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,140 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,536 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OX9 3 is one sector of OX9 (Thame): 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 OX9 3 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 buyers actually paid in OX9 3
Across 63 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OX9 3 home went for £437,500. The mean is £469,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in OX9 3
Per square metre, OX9 3 homes have averaged around £5,140 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OX9 3 trades 54% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OX9 3 home, 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 | £437,500 | £437,500 | 63 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 191 |
| 2024 | £422,500 | £449,204 | 196 |
| 2023 | £395,000 | £434,009 | 142 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 204 |
| 2021 | £413,800 | £523,924 | 244 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 144 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 159 |
| 2018 | £430,000 | £573,198 | 207 |
| 2017 | £382,500 | £521,692 | 187 |
| 2016 | £370,000 | £517,634 | 213 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 217 |
| 2014 | £283,800 | £402,620 | 186 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 184 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 160 |
| 2011 | £244,000 | £368,346 | 121 |
| 2010 | £246,500 | £386,575 | 144 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 150 |
| 2008 | £232,000 | £380,297 | 85 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 212 |
| 2006 | £217,500 | £377,552 | 247 |
| 2005 | £211,500 | £376,385 | 224 |
| 2004 | £203,200 | £369,051 | 260 |
| 2003 | £192,800 | £355,184 | 226 |
| 2002 | £174,500 | £328,320 | 275 |
| 2001 | £143,000 | £274,910 | 322 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 249 |
| 1999 | £102,000 | £203,281 | 287 |
| 1998 | £86,000 | £173,597 | 262 |
| 1997 | £83,000 | £170,216 | 297 |
| 1996 | £72,500 | £152,899 | 257 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 221 |
In cash terms the typical OX9 3 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £437,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 188%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OX9 3 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 2016 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−16.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.8% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
OX9 3 recorded 63 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 252 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 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.
Rents around OX9 3
For renting purposes OX9 3 sits in South Oxfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,381 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,381 a month is £16,572 a year, which against the £437,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about OX9 3 (Postcombe)
Are property prices falling in OX9 3 (Postcombe)?
Is OX9 3 (Postcombe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX9 3 (Postcombe)?
Will OX9 3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in OX9 now
Turning to what is actually available: 27 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX9 district, not just OX9 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 60% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 OX9 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.
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. 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OX9
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OX9's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX9 2 | £460,000 | 21 |
| OX9 7 | £659,200 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full OX9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OX9 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OX9 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OX9 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OX9 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual OX9 3 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.
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.