Wallingford house prices

Wallingford house prices are built from 14,134 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £275,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +25.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.0%.

HM Land Registry14,134 sales1,344 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Wallingford 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 Wallingford is £475,000 in 2023; the lowest is £83,125 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £83,125 to £445,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £184,577, so the real change over the whole record is +141.1% — about +2.88% 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: +25.6% in cash against -10.0% 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 Wallingford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wallingford 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. 4,357 certificates cover Wallingford, and their median floor area is 85 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +11.8%. 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.

1,795 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12,339 freehold — 12.7% 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 £175,000 and the median freehold sale £297,000 — a gap of +69.7%. 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 — +53.9%. 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 584 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 South Oxfordshire, 47.1% of 69,345 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.5% 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 South Oxfordshire at £1,384 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,028 for a one-bedroom home and £1,592 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £275,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.04% 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 OX10, 47 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 22 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.6 times quieter.

Against the 149,085 residents the 2021 census counted in South Oxfordshire, that is 0.32 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 149,085 residents in South Oxfordshire across 61,498 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a OX10 postcode: 12 primary, 1 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. Wallingford sits above that national figure — +74.6%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,339 per square metre, across 1,344 of the 14,134 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 £7,000 to £4,460,000. 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.

Wallingford sits in South Oxfordshire, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in South Oxfordshire at 10.0 times median local earnings of £44,822 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 Wallingford

• High Street426 sales
• The Street225 sales
• Station Road197 sales
• Fir Tree Avenue184 sales
• Wantage Road180 sales
• Atwell Close168 sales
• Reading Road163 sales
• St Johns Road160 sales
• Leach Road156 sales
• Barley Close147 sales
• Kennet Close145 sales
• Wallingford Road145 sales
• Brook Street143 sales
• Papist Way141 sales
• Wilding Road128 sales
• Walter Bigg Way125 sales
• Thame Road121 sales
• Blacklands Road120 sales
• Brookmead Drive118 sales
• Sovereign Place117 sales
• Westfield Road117 sales
• Charter Way116 sales
• St Nicholas Road116 sales
• Church Lane103 sales
• Rothwells Close103 sales
• West End96 sales
• Chiltern Close94 sales
• Howbery Farm92 sales
• Wood Street90 sales
• Newlands Way89 sales
• Newnham Green89 sales
• Fludger Close88 sales
• Fane Drive86 sales
• St Rualds Close85 sales
• St Lucians Lane84 sales
• Cherwell Road82 sales
• Rowland Close82 sales
• Honey Lane81 sales
• Ilges Lane79 sales
• St Georges Road79 sales
• Littleworth Road78 sales
• Borough Avenue77 sales
• High Road74 sales
• Winterbrook74 sales
• St Marys Street70 sales
• Croft Road68 sales
• The Cedars68 sales
• Passey Crescent67 sales
• Chapel Lane64 sales
• Oxford Road64 sales
• Queens Avenue64 sales
• Mcmullan Close62 sales
• Mill Lane62 sales
• Windsor Drive62 sales
• Church Road61 sales
• Greenmere59 sales
• The Murren59 sales
• St Helens Avenue57 sales
• Castle Street56 sales
• East End56 sales

Postcode districts covering Wallingford

• OX10£275,000 median

What is the average house price in Wallingford?

The median price paid in Wallingford across every sale on the register is £275,000. 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 Wallingford?

14,134 sales are on record for Wallingford, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wallingford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +25.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -10.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Wallingford house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £475,000, set in 2023. 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 Wallingford?

£3,339 per square metre, from the 1,344 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 22 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, “Wallingford 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.