The Hill, Burford house prices

The Hill, Burford house prices are built from 164 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 31 Jan 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £369,500. Across the 11 years from 2012 to 2023 the median moved +101.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +45.5%.

HM Land Registry164 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 31 Jan 2025

The chart tracks the median The Hill, Burford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 The Hill, Burford is £750,000 in 2023; the lowest is £166,250 in 1999. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £172,500 to £750,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £383,031, so the real change over the whole record is +111.6% — about +2.71% 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: +101.1% in cash against +45.5% 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.

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 The Hill, Burford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

7 of the sales on record are leasehold and 157 freehold — 4.3% 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 £279,950 and the median freehold sale £375,000 — a gap of +34.0%. 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 — +96.5%. 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 9 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 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.

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 £369,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.06% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Hill, Burford sits above that national figure — +134.6%.

Within Burford the street ranks 30 of 58 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £335,000 (+10.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,300 per square metre, across 32 of the 164 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 £75,000 to £1,450,000. 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.

The Hill, Burford 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.

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
• 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
• Black Bourton Road£129,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 156 the Hill7 sales
• 17, WINDRUSH COURT, 175 the Hill6 sales
• 141 the Hill5 sales
• STONEFIELD LODGE, 210A the Hill4 sales
• 12, WINDRUSH COURT, 175 the Hill4 sales
• 129 the Hill4 sales
• ENGLEFIELD, 131 the Hill4 sales
• 141A the Hill4 sales
• 141C the Hill4 sales
• 182 the Hill3 sales
• 10, WINDRUSH COURT, 175 the Hill3 sales
• 176 the Hill3 sales
• 9, WINDRUSH COURT, 175 the Hill3 sales
• 135 the Hill3 sales
• 158 the Hill3 sales
• 184 the Hill3 sales
• HOLYWELL BARN the Hill3 sales
• 11, WINDRUSH COURT, 175 the Hill3 sales
• 133 the Hill3 sales
• 155 the Hill3 sales
• 168 the Hill3 sales
• 166 the Hill3 sales
• 214 the Hill3 sales
• HILLTOP the Hill3 sales

Back to Burford house prices.

What is the average house price in The Hill, Burford?

The median price paid in The Hill, Burford across every sale on the register is £369,500. 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 The Hill, Burford?

164 sales are on record for The Hill, Burford, the most recent completing on 31 Jan 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Hill, Burford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +101.1% between 2012 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +45.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Hill, Burford house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £750,000, 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 The Hill, Burford?

£3,300 per square metre, from the 32 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 31 Jan 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, “The Hill, Burford 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.