Bennett Crescent, Oxford house prices

Bennett Crescent, Oxford house prices are built from 259 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 6 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £190,000. Across the 11 years from 2015 to 2026 the median moved -9.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -36.1%.

HM Land Registry259 salesLatest sale 6 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Bennett Crescent, Oxford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 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 Bennett Crescent, Oxford is £370,500 in 2021; the lowest is £99,950 in 1998. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £99,950 to £295,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £207,249, so the real change over the whole record is +42.3% — about +1.27% 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: -9.9% in cash against -36.1% 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 Bennett Crescent, Oxford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

211 of the sales on record are leasehold and 48 freehold — 81.5% 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 £187,500 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +33.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.5%. 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 2 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 Oxford, 49.8% of 78,812 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% 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 Oxford at £1,961 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,350 for a one-bedroom home and £2,031 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £190,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.39% 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 OX4, 390 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 151 violent, 11 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 34 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.

Against the 162,040 residents the 2021 census counted in Oxford, that is 2.41 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 162,040 residents in Oxford across 55,239 households. 46.8% of those households own their home and 53.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a OX4 postcode: 15 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery. 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. Bennett Crescent, Oxford sits above that national figure — +20.6%.

Within Oxford the street ranks 1156 of 1517 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £249,000 (-23.7%).

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.

The full range on record runs from £38,202 to £466,000. 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.

Bennett Crescent, Oxford sits in Oxford, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Oxford at 10.3 times median local earnings of £43,502 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

• Oxford Road£239,500 median
• Mandelbrote Drive£220,000 median
• Reliance Way£280,000 median
• Campbell Road£215,000 median
• Herschel Crescent£210,000 median
• Church Road£262,000 median
• Howard Street£230,000 median
• Crescent Road£245,000 median
• Hollow Way£187,500 median
• Hurst Street£283,000 median
• Charles Street£250,000 median
• Iffley Road£310,000 median
• Pheasant Walk£140,000 median
• Cricket Road£249,950 median
• Divinity Road£325,000 median
• Percy Street£250,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 93, the JACKSON BUILDING Bennett Crescent6 sales
• 71, the JACKSON BUILDING Bennett Crescent5 sales
• 48 Bennett Crescent5 sales
• 64 Bennett Crescent5 sales
• 38 Bennett Crescent5 sales
• 24 Bennett Crescent5 sales
• 34 Bennett Crescent5 sales
• 63, the JACKSON BUILDING Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 102 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 66 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 96 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 80 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 51, the MANOR HOUSE Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 100 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 15, OXFORD MILITARY COLLEGE Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 104 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 46 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 39, the OLD CHAPEL Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 57, the MANOR HOUSE Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 54 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 52 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 28 Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 79, the JACKSON BUILDING Bennett Crescent4 sales
• 4 Bennett Crescent4 sales

Back to Oxford house prices.

What is the average house price in Bennett Crescent, Oxford?

The median price paid in Bennett Crescent, Oxford across every sale on the register is £190,000. 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 Bennett Crescent, Oxford?

259 sales are on record for Bennett Crescent, Oxford, the most recent completing on 6 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Bennett Crescent, Oxford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -9.9% between 2015 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -36.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bennett Crescent, Oxford house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £370,500, 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 Bennett Crescent, Oxford?

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 6 May 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, “Bennett Crescent, Oxford 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.