Bicester house prices

Bicester house prices are built from 36,270 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 £198,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +10.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -21.2%.

HM Land Registry36,270 sales6,759 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Bicester 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 Bicester is £390,000 in 2023; the lowest is £62,919 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £62,919 to £350,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £139,709, so the real change over the whole record is +150.5% — about +3.01% 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: +10.1% in cash against -21.2% 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.

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 Bicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bicester 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. 7,199 certificates cover Bicester, and their median floor area is 86 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +13.2%. 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.

2,760 of the sales on record are leasehold and 33,510 freehold — 7.6% 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 £140,000 and the median freehold sale £209,000 — a gap of +49.3%. 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 — +36.1%. 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 1,748 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 Cherwell, 53.2% of 76,409 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% 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 Cherwell at £1,291 a month as of Jun 2026 — £965 for a one-bedroom home and £1,455 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £198,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.82% 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 OX26, 257 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 100 violent, 7 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times busier.

Against the 161,016 residents the 2021 census counted in Cherwell, that is 1.60 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 161,016 residents in Cherwell across 65,893 households. 66.9% of those households own their home and 33.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a OX26 postcode: 11 primary, 3 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. Bicester sits above that national figure — +25.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,530 per square metre, across 6,759 of the 36,270 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 £6,219 to £3,700,000. 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.

Bicester sits in Cherwell, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cherwell at 9.3 times median local earnings of £38,768 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 Bicester

• Spruce Drive477 sales
• Avocet Way460 sales
• Ravencroft417 sales
• Heron Drive410 sales
• Merganser Drive389 sales
• Lucerne Avenue370 sales
• Coopers Green355 sales
• Willow Drive320 sales
• Kingfisher Way276 sales
• Corncrake Way261 sales
• Roman Way261 sales
• Moor Pond Close254 sales
• Buckingham Road247 sales
• Kestrel Way246 sales
• London Road239 sales
• Wessex Way232 sales
• Mallards Way222 sales
• Mullein Road220 sales
• Hornbeam Road207 sales
• Station Road204 sales
• Barry Avenue202 sales
• Lyneham Road201 sales
• Lapwing Close196 sales
• Main Street195 sales
• Reedmace Road194 sales
• Kings End191 sales
• Shannon Road185 sales
• Fairhaven Road184 sales
• Whitelands Way178 sales
• Grebe Road176 sales
• Danes Road166 sales
• Partridge Chase166 sales
• Redwing Close166 sales
• Blenheim Drive165 sales
• North Street165 sales
• Germander Way164 sales
• Cranesbill Drive162 sales
• Fair Close161 sales
• Hawksmead159 sales
• Isis Avenue157 sales
• East Street156 sales
• Medina Gardens150 sales
• Purslane Drive149 sales
• Heather Road147 sales
• Campion Place142 sales
• The Parade140 sales
• Manston Close138 sales
• Westholm Court138 sales
• Jay Close137 sales
• Kempton Close134 sales
• Bicester Road133 sales
• Priory Road133 sales
• Hambleside132 sales
• The Bramblings130 sales
• Wear Road130 sales
• Bucknell Road127 sales
• Merlin Way126 sales
• Juniper Gardens124 sales
• Linden Road122 sales
• Beckdale Close120 sales

Postcode districts covering Bicester

• OX26£177,000 median
• OX25£295,000 median
• OX27£250,000 median

What is the average house price in Bicester?

The median price paid in Bicester across every sale on the register is £198,000. 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 Bicester?

36,270 sales are on record for Bicester, 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 Bicester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +10.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -21.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bicester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £390,000, 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 Bicester?

£2,530 per square metre, from the 6,759 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, “Bicester 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.