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Postcombe market report OX9, Thame
The OX9 (Postcombe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,476 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OX9 (Thame) 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for OX9 (Thame) is £447,500, from 90 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £494,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,160 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,476 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OX9 is a postcode district covering Thame, Postcombe, Towersey in Thame. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where OX9 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.
OX9 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for OX9 is £447,500, taken from 90 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £494,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in OX9
By floor space, homes in OX9 have sold for about £5,160 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OX9 trades 57% above the country as a whole.
A typical OX9 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £447,500 | £447,500 | 90 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 271 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 265 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 207 |
| 2022 | £418,500 | £490,739 | 306 |
| 2021 | £432,500 | £547,601 | 364 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 244 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 256 |
| 2018 | £445,000 | £593,193 | 313 |
| 2017 | £421,000 | £574,202 | 290 |
| 2016 | £387,500 | £542,116 | 322 |
| 2015 | £307,800 | £434,921 | 328 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 281 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 263 |
| 2012 | £263,800 | £388,281 | 248 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 205 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 219 |
| 2009 | £222,000 | £356,867 | 224 |
| 2008 | £245,600 | £402,590 | 174 |
| 2007 | £248,000 | £420,677 | 334 |
| 2006 | £234,000 | £406,194 | 351 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 290 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 348 |
| 2003 | £195,200 | £359,606 | 314 |
| 2002 | £178,000 | £334,905 | 372 |
| 2001 | £147,500 | £283,561 | 409 |
| 2000 | £131,000 | £257,088 | 340 |
| 1999 | £107,000 | £213,245 | 407 |
| 1998 | £87,200 | £176,019 | 342 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 398 |
| 1996 | £78,500 | £165,553 | 365 |
| 1995 | £73,200 | £159,126 | 336 |
In cash terms the typical OX9 home went from £73,200 in 1995 to £447,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OX9 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 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−15.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £666,800 against £282,500 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, OX9
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 | £666,800 | 26 | 2,728 |
| Semi-detached | £460,000 | 25 | 2,738 |
| Terraced | £395,000 | 25 | 2,635 |
| Flats | £282,500 | 14 | 1,375 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.7% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in OX9
Sales per year, counted
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
OX9 recorded 190 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 345 sales a year before the financial crisis and 228 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around OX9
For renting purposes OX9 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 £447,500 median sold price, £1,381 a month is £16,572 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
OX9 (Postcombe): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OX9 (Postcombe)?
Is OX9 (Postcombe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OX9 (Postcombe)?
Are OX9 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
OX9's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in OX9 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 27 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the OX9 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 60% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 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.
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. 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%) | — |
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
OX9 ranks 13 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside OX9, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OX9 2 | £460,000 | 21 |
| OX9 3 | £437,500 | 63 |
| OX9 7 | £659,200 | 6 |
How OX9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OX area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OX2 | £540,000 | -7% |
| OX49 | £510,000 | +4% |
| OX1 | £500,000 | +8% |
| OX7 | £500,000 | +19% |
| OX33 | £483,000 | +0% |
| OX15 | £452,500 | +13% |
| OX39 | £450,000 | +3% |
| OX9 (this report) | £447,500 | +3% |
| OX10 | £443,000 | -1% |
| OX20 | £441,200 | -12% |
| OX29 | £440,000 | +9% |
| OX3 | £435,000 | +1% |
| OX44 | £435,000 | +2% |
| OX4 | £415,000 | +11% |
| OX25 | £407,500 | +12% |
| OX13 | £402,500 | -15% |
| OX17 | £400,000 | +4% |
| OX27 | £385,000 | -1% |
| OX5 | £375,000 | -2% |
| OX11 | £375,000 | +9% |
| OX14 | £371,200 | +6% |
| OX12 | £340,000 | +0% |
| OX18 | £340,000 | +5% |
| OX28 | £335,800 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in OX9? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OX9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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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.