Market Square, Bampton house prices are built from 63 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 14 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £195,500. Across the 11 years from 2010 to 2021 the median moved +29.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.2%.
Median price paid
£195,500
Change in cash, 2010–2021
+29.2%
Change in real terms
+2.2%
Median per m²
£2,563
HM Land Registry63 sales10 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Market Square, Bampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Market Square, Bampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2021. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £153,995 | £280,534 |
| 2010s | 1 | £164,500 | £231,945 |
| 2020s | 1 | £212,500 | £217,120 |
The highest yearly median on record for Market Square, Bampton is £212,500 in 2021; the lowest is £144,950 in 2002. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £153,995 to £212,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £301,993, so the real change over the whole record is -11.1% — about -0.59% 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: +29.2% in cash against +2.2% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosemary House | 14 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £780,000 | £796,957 |
| Flat 9 Thornberry | 7 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £199,950 | £210,395 |
| The Old Bank House Moonraker Lane | 12 Sep 2022 | Detached | £750,000 | £868,940 |
| Wheelgate House | 21 Jun 2022 | Detached | £1,060,000 | £1,228,102 |
| Flat 3 Thornberry | 14 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £209,000 | £242,145 |
| Flat 1 Thornberry | 13 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £271,640 |
| 2 Folly View | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £536,962 |
| Flat 2 Thornberry | 28 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| Flat 7 Thornberry | 6 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| Flat 5 Thornberry | 29 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| Rosemary House | 29 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £705,000 | £890,726 |
| The Poachers Rest | 15 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £685,000 | £895,965 |
| Flat 7 Thornberry | 11 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £222,500 | £291,025 |
| Flat 7 Thornberry | 5 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £279,868 |
| Flat 7 Thornberry | 26 May 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £195,500 | £272,926 |
| Flat 9 Thornberry | 10 Dec 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £172,500 | £243,225 |
| Cotsfield | 14 Aug 2015 | Terraced | £490,000 | £690,900 |
| The Old Bank House Moonraker Lane | 29 May 2015 | Detached | £640,000 | £902,400 |
| Folly House | 26 Sep 2014 | Detached | £1,890,000 | £2,710,987 |
| Hayman House | 8 Aug 2014 | Detached | £999,950 | £1,434,313 |
| Flat 9 Thornberry | 31 Jan 2013 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £218,718 |
| Flat 6 Thornberry | 20 Oct 2011 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £257,478 |
| 2 Folly View | 17 Jun 2011 | Semi-detached | £319,000 | £488,902 |
| Flat 2 Thornberry | 19 Oct 2010 | Flat or maisonette | £164,500 | £262,678 |
| 1 Folly View | 6 Aug 2010 | Semi-detached | £301,000 | £480,646 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Market Square, Bampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROSEMARY HOUSE Market Square | £349,950 (2002) | £780,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 9 THORNBERRY Market Square | £116,500 (2002) | £199,950 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| THE OLD BANK HOUSE MOONRAKER LANE Market Square | £640,000 (2015) | £750,000 (2022) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| FLAT 3 THORNBERRY Market Square | £162,000 (2010) | £209,000 (2022) | +2.1% | -0.5% |
| FLAT 1 THORNBERRY Market Square | £143,950 (2002) | £215,000 (2021) | +2.1% | -0.1% |
| 2 FOLLY VIEW Market Square | £250,000 (2009) | £425,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.3% |
| FLAT 2 THORNBERRY Market Square | £132,995 (2001) | £210,000 (2021) | +2.3% | +0.1% |
| FLAT 7 THORNBERRY Market Square | £144,950 (2002) | £200,000 (2021) | +1.7% | -0.5% |
| FLAT 5 THORNBERRY Market Square | £160,000 (2003) | £210,000 (2021) | +1.5% | -0.7% |
| HAYMAN HOUSE Market Square | £168,750 (1995) | £999,950 (2014) | +9.8% | +7.3% |
| FLAT 6 THORNBERRY Market Square | £153,995 (2001) | £168,000 (2011) | +0.9% | -1.6% |
| 1 FOLLY VIEW Market Square | £126,000 (1997) | £301,000 (2010) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Market Square, Bampton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 32 | 50.8% | £172,500 | £112,500 – £222,500 |
| Semi-detached | 15 | 23.8% | £301,000 | £126,000 – £780,000 |
| Detached | 8 | 12.7% | £692,000 | £168,750 – £1,890,000 |
| Terraced | 8 | 12.7% | £175,500 | £86,000 – £495,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Market Square, Bampton
32 of the sales on record are leasehold and 31 freehold — 50.8% 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 £172,500 and the median freehold sale £319,000 — a gap of +84.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 32 | 50.8% | £172,500 |
| Freehold | 31 | 49.2% | £319,000 |
| New build | 10 | 15.9% | £150,478 |
| Existing home | 53 | 84.1% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -24.8%. 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 8 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.
Section 07
Living in Market Square, Bampton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cotswold, 39.3% of 49,354 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 9.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 328 | 0.7% |
| B | 7,113 | 14.4% |
| C | 11,955 | 24.2% |
| D | 15,222 | 30.8% |
| E | 10,054 | 20.4% |
| F | 3,707 | 7.5% |
| G | 975 | 2.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cotswold at £1,251 a month as of Jun 2026 — £869 for a one-bedroom home and £1,342 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £195,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.68% 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 OX18, 83 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 37 violent, 1 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 14 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times quieter.
Against the 90,832 residents the 2021 census counted in Cotswold, that is 0.91 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Market Square, Bampton
The 2021 census counted 90,832 residents in Cotswold across 40,597 households. 67.3% of those households own their home and 32.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a OX18 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burford School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,452 |
| Carterton Community College | Secondary | Community school | 774 |
| St John the Evangelist CofE VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 452 |
| Edith Moorhouse Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 336 |
| Gateway Primary School | Primary | Community school | 300 |
| Carterton Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 225 |
| Aston and Cote Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 199 |
| Bampton CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 189 |
| Burford Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 144 |
| Brize Norton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 132 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Shipton Rail Station | Rail | 11.4 km |
| Ascott-under-Wychwood Rail Station | Rail | 11.8 km |
| Finstock Rail Station | Rail | 13.0 km |
| Charlbury Rail Station | Rail | 14.0 km |
Section 09
How Market Square, Bampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Market Square, Bampton sits above that national figure — +24.1%.
Within Bampton the street ranks 83 of 112 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-21.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,563 per square metre, across 10 of the 63 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 £86,000 to £1,890,000. 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.
Market Square, Bampton sits in Cotswold, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cotswold at 13.4 times median local earnings of £33,872 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Bluebell Way£189,995 median
- Glenmore Road£111,250 median
- Elmhurst Way£210,000 median
- Bracken Close£117,750 median
- Queens Road£135,500 median
- Burford Road£195,000 median
- Heather Close£97,000 median
- Richens Drive£105,000 median
- The Hill£369,500 median
- Trefoil Way£146,000 median
- Mayfield Close£131,000 median
- Hawthorn Drive£197,500 median
- Woodrush Gardens£177,500 median
- Oakfield Road£177,000 median
- Strathmore Close£115,000 median
- Saffron Crescent£199,498 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 7, THORNBERRY Market Square8 sales
- 1, FOLLY VIEW Market Square5 sales
- ROSEMARY HOUSE Market Square4 sales
- FLAT 9, THORNBERRY Market Square4 sales
- FLAT 2, THORNBERRY Market Square4 sales
- FLAT 10, THORNBERRY Market Square4 sales
- 2, FOLLY VIEW Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 5, THORNBERRY Market Square3 sales
- HAYMAN HOUSE Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 6, THORNBERRY Market Square3 sales
- THE BARN, MOONRAKER LANE Market Square3 sales
- THE OLD BANK HOUSE, MOONRAKER LANE Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 3, THORNBERRY Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 1, THORNBERRY Market Square2 sales
- BAKERY COTTAGE Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 4, THORNBERRY Market Square2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Market Square, Bampton?
The median price paid in Market Square, Bampton across every sale on the register is £195,500. 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 Market Square, Bampton?
63 sales are on record for Market Square, Bampton, the most recent completing on 14 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Market Square, Bampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +29.2% between 2010 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Market Square, Bampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £212,500, set in 2021. 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 Market Square, Bampton?
£2,563 per square metre, from the 10 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 14 Nov 2025. 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, “Market Square, Bampton 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.