Witney house prices

Witney house prices are built from 29,571 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £227,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +18.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -14.9%.

HM Land Registry29,571 sales4,654 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Witney house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Witney is £384,950 in 2022; the lowest is £70,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £70,500 to £375,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £156,543, so the real change over the whole record is +139.9% — about +2.86% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +18.8% in cash against -14.9% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Witney values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Witney is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,311 certificates cover Witney, and their median floor area is 81 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

4,166 of the sales on record are leasehold and 25,405 freehold — 14.1% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £156,998 and the median freehold sale £245,000 — a gap of +56.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +26.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1,363 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across West Oxfordshire, 50.4% of 56,675 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in West Oxfordshire at £1,284 a month as of Jun 2026 — £940 for a one-bedroom home and £1,494 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £227,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.77% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of OX28, 134 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 53 violent, 1 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 17 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.

Against the 114,237 residents the 2021 census counted in West Oxfordshire, that is 1.17 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 114,237 residents in West Oxfordshire across 47,981 households. 68.9% of those households own their home and 31.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

11 state and independent schools have a OX28 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Witney sits above that national figure — +44.4%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,903 per square metre, across 4,654 of the 29,571 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £10,000 to £3,500,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Witney sits in West Oxfordshire, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in West Oxfordshire at 9.9 times median local earnings of £40,000 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Witney

• Thorney Leys920 sales
• Manor Road706 sales
• Burwell Meadow348 sales
• Main Road312 sales
• St Marys Mead308 sales
• Farmers Close299 sales
• Woodstock Road269 sales
• High Street254 sales
• Witney Road248 sales
• Barrington Close242 sales
• Colwell Drive224 sales
• Park Road224 sales
• Eton Close222 sales
• West End216 sales
• Farmington Drive208 sales
• Harvest Way207 sales
• Blakes Avenue206 sales
• Priory Mill Lane206 sales
• Dovehouse Close196 sales
• Burford Road193 sales
• Langdale Gate192 sales
• Stow Avenue192 sales
• Corn Street190 sales
• Wroslyn Road188 sales
• Coral Springs Way187 sales
• Woodgreen187 sales
• Oxlease177 sales
• Ducklington Lane174 sales
• Newland174 sales
• Mill Street168 sales
• Quarry Road168 sales
• Burwell Drive166 sales
• The Green165 sales
• Acre End Street164 sales
• Queen Emmas Dyke164 sales
• Church Road162 sales
• Buttercross Lane160 sales
• Cogges Hill Road159 sales
• Beechgate158 sales
• The Crofts156 sales
• Abingdon Road153 sales
• Cotswold Meadow153 sales
• Crawley Road151 sales
• Vanner Road149 sales
• Sherbourne Road148 sales
• New Yatt Road147 sales
• Ralegh Crescent147 sales
• Madley Brook Lane145 sales
• Pensclose143 sales
• Idbury Close142 sales
• Marriotts Walk142 sales
• Lower End138 sales
• Campden Close137 sales
• Painswick Close135 sales
• Spareacre Lane135 sales
• Woodley Green134 sales
• Broadmarsh Lane132 sales
• Campion Way130 sales
• Woodford Way129 sales
• Oxford Hill127 sales

Postcode districts covering Witney

• OX28£198,000 median
• OX29£290,000 median

What is the average house price in Witney?

The median price paid in Witney across every sale on the register is £227,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Witney?

29,571 sales are on record for Witney, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Witney house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +18.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -14.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Witney house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £384,950, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Witney?

£2,903 per square metre, from the 4,654 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Witney house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.