Jay Close, Bicester house prices are built from 137 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 14 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £195,000. Across the 15 years from 2006 to 2021 the median moved +89.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +34.5%.
Median price paid
£195,000
Change in cash, 2006–2021
+89.6%
Change in real terms
+34.5%
Median per m²
£1,787
HM Land Registry137 sales15 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Jay Close, Bicester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Jay Close, Bicester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £132,000 | £293,102 |
| 2000s | 5 | £214,000 | £389,845 |
| 2020s | 1 | £455,000 | £464,891 |
The highest yearly median on record for Jay Close, Bicester is £455,000 in 2021; the lowest is £114,498 in 1997. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £114,498 to £455,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £242,769, so the real change over the whole record is +136.8% — about +3.66% 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: +89.6% in cash against +34.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 14 Oct 2025 | Detached | £665,000 | £679,457 |
| 25 | 29 Jul 2025 | Detached | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| 14 | 24 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £429,000 | £438,326 |
| 39 | 17 Mar 2025 | Detached | £579,000 | £591,587 |
| 27 | 12 Jul 2024 | Detached | £664,000 | £698,687 |
| 29 | 1 Aug 2022 | Detached | £515,000 | £596,672 |
| 9 | 26 Nov 2021 | Detached | £455,000 | £574,866 |
| 12 | 12 Nov 2021 | Detached | £365,000 | £461,156 |
| 59 | 23 Sep 2021 | Detached | £635,000 | £802,285 |
| 27 | 12 Mar 2021 | Detached | £605,000 | £764,382 |
| 55 | 5 Mar 2021 | Detached | £442,000 | £558,441 |
| 57 | 5 Dec 2019 | Detached | £440,000 | £575,510 |
| 26 | 22 Oct 2019 | Detached | £405,000 | £529,731 |
| 77 | 12 Apr 2019 | Detached | £425,000 | £555,891 |
| 35 | 21 Nov 2016 | Detached | £525,000 | £732,921 |
| 51 | 29 Jul 2016 | Detached | £402,500 | £561,906 |
| 55 | 18 Dec 2015 | Detached | £438,000 | £617,580 |
| 9 | 14 Aug 2015 | Detached | £358,750 | £505,838 |
| 7 | 23 Jun 2015 | Detached | £372,500 | £525,225 |
| 73 | 18 Nov 2014 | Detached | £372,736 | £534,647 |
| 69 | 6 Mar 2014 | Detached | £322,000 | £461,872 |
| 27 | 10 Jan 2014 | Detached | £445,000 | £638,301 |
| 19 | 3 May 2013 | Detached | £410,000 | £597,828 |
| 16 | 8 Aug 2012 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £365,943 |
| 11 | 20 Jul 2012 | Detached | £320,000 | £477,966 |
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 Jay Close, Bicester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 Jay Close | £164,500 (1997) | £665,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 25 Jay Close | £112,995 (1997) | £650,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 14 Jay Close | £77,500 (1997) | £429,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 39 Jay Close | £131,995 (1997) | £579,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 27 Jay Close | £392,000 (2008) | £664,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 29 Jay Close | £120,995 (1997) | £515,000 (2022) | +6.0% | +3.4% |
| 9 Jay Close | £122,500 (1998) | £455,000 (2021) | +5.9% | +3.6% |
| 12 Jay Close | £81,000 (1997) | £365,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
| 59 Jay Close | £168,995 (1997) | £635,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 55 Jay Close | £128,500 (1997) | £442,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
| 57 Jay Close | £114,000 (1997) | £440,000 (2019) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 26 Jay Close | £106,000 (1997) | £405,000 (2019) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Jay Close, Bicester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 129 | 94.2% | £195,000 | £79,995 – £665,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6 | 4.4% | £123,500 | £77,500 – £429,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 1.5% | £79,995 | £79,995 – £212,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Jay Close, Bicester
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 137 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 137 | 100.0% | £195,000 |
| New build | 45 | 32.8% | £122,500 |
| Existing home | 92 | 67.2% | £250,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -51.0%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Jay Close, Bicester
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 976 | 1.3% |
| B | 14,450 | 18.9% |
| C | 25,201 | 33.0% |
| D | 23,660 | 31.0% |
| E | 8,736 | 11.4% |
| F | 2,719 | 3.6% |
| G | 667 | 0.9% |
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 £195,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.94% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Jay Close, Bicester
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bicester School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,176 |
| The Cooper School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,118 |
| St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 598 |
| Whitelands Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 565 |
| King's Meadow Primary School | Primary | Community school | 443 |
| Langford Village Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 413 |
| Bure Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 402 |
| Longfields Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 354 |
| Glory Farm Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 331 |
| Southwold Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 315 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bicester North Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| Bicester Village Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Tackley Rail Station | Rail | 10.0 km |
| Heyford Rail Station | Rail | 10.1 km |
Section 09
How Jay Close, Bicester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Jay Close, Bicester sits above that national figure — +23.8%.
Within Bicester the street ranks 522 of 807 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £198,000 (-1.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,787 per square metre, across 15 of the 137 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 £77,500 to £665,000. 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.
Jay Close, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Spruce Drive£129,000 median
- Avocet Way£115,000 median
- Ravencroft£152,500 median
- Heron Drive£124,500 median
- Merganser Drive£135,000 median
- Lucerne Avenue£210,000 median
- Coopers Green£118,100 median
- Willow Drive£129,450 median
- Kingfisher Way£106,500 median
- Roman Way£114,000 median
- Corncrake Way£187,500 median
- Moor Pond Close£99,500 median
- Buckingham Road£188,500 median
- Kestrel Way£128,250 median
- London Road£110,000 median
- Wessex Way£160,725 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 27 Jay Close5 sales
- 77 Jay Close5 sales
- 29 Jay Close4 sales
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- 3 Jay Close4 sales
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- 25 Jay Close3 sales
- 39 Jay Close3 sales
- 57 Jay Close3 sales
- 26 Jay Close3 sales
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- 69 Jay Close3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Jay Close, Bicester?
The median price paid in Jay Close, Bicester across every sale on the register is £195,000. 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 Jay Close, Bicester?
137 sales are on record for Jay Close, Bicester, the most recent completing on 14 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Jay Close, Bicester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +89.6% between 2006 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +34.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Jay Close, Bicester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £455,000, 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 Jay Close, Bicester?
£1,787 per square metre, from the 15 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 Oct 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, “Jay Close, 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.