Old Road, Oxford house prices are built from 232 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £323,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +31.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.8%.
Median price paid
£323,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+31.2%
Change in real terms
-3.8%
HM Land Registry232 salesLatest sale 30 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Old Road, Oxford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Old Road, Oxford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | 5 | £172,500 | £383,031 |
| 2000s | 9 | £302,000 | £550,155 |
| 2010s | 6 | £465,000 | £655,650 |
| 2020s | 5 | £700,000 | £715,217 |
The highest yearly median on record for Old Road, Oxford is £1,105,000 in 2022; the lowest is £107,000 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £107,000 to £610,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £237,591, so the real change over the whole record is +170.2% — about +3.49% 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: +31.2% in cash against -3.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £1,260,000 | £1,260,000 |
| 63 | 19 Dec 2025 | Detached | £725,000 | £740,761 |
| 148 | 6 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| 103 | 5 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £610,000 | £641,866 |
| 97 | 7 Aug 2024 | Detached | £1,250,000 | £1,315,299 |
| 164 | 8 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £420,870 | £442,856 |
| 133 | 17 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £640,000 | £673,433 |
| 137 | 7 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 82 | 18 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £1,240,000 | £1,304,776 |
| 160 | 9 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 43 | 8 Feb 2024 | Detached | £1,035,000 | £1,089,067 |
| Quarry Cottage | 11 Oct 2023 | Detached | £745,000 | £804,943 |
| 108 | 31 Aug 2023 | Detached | £860,000 | £929,195 |
| 170 | 5 May 2023 | Detached | £575,500 | £621,805 |
| 49 | 24 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £1,100,000 | £1,188,506 |
| 129 | 24 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £321,000 | £346,828 |
| 29 | 13 Sep 2022 | Detached | £650,000 | £753,081 |
| 78 | 15 Jul 2022 | Detached | £2,000,000 | £2,317,173 |
| All Saints Vicarage, 85 | 21 Jun 2022 | Detached | £1,565,000 | £1,813,188 |
| Upper Flat 139 | 10 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 65 | 8 Jun 2022 | Detached | £835,000 | £967,420 |
| 67 | 10 May 2022 | Detached | £1,375,000 | £1,593,057 |
| 125 | 15 Feb 2022 | Detached | £470,000 | £544,536 |
| Shotover Edge | 28 Jan 2022 | Detached | £2,680,000 | £3,105,012 |
| The Rise | 24 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £580,780 | £733,781 |
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 Old Road, Oxford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Old Road | £161,000 (1998) | £725,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 103 Old Road | £110,000 (1998) | £610,000 (2024) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 164 Old Road | £93,500 (1997) | £420,870 (2024) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 133 Old Road | £550,000 (2020) | £640,000 (2024) | +3.9% | -1.4% |
| 137 Old Road | £145,000 (1999) | £475,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 160 Old Road | £79,950 (1995) | £295,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 43 Old Road | £230,000 (1999) | £1,035,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 170 Old Road | £106,000 (1998) | £575,500 (2023) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 49 Old Road | £690,000 (2021) | £1,100,000 (2023) | +26.3% | +16.8% |
| 129 Old Road | £175,000 (2001) | £321,000 (2023) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| 29 Old Road | £89,500 (1995) | £650,000 (2022) | +7.6% | +5.1% |
| 78 Old Road | £1,025,000 (2012) | £2,000,000 (2022) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Old Road, Oxford 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 | 154 | 66.4% | £385,000 | £52,000 – £2,680,000 |
| Semi-detached | 56 | 24.1% | £265,000 | £79,950 – £1,240,000 |
| Terraced | 13 | 5.6% | £350,000 | £76,000 – £430,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 9 | 3.9% | £225,000 | £66,000 – £321,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Old Road, Oxford
8 of the sales on record are leasehold and 224 freehold — 3.4% 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 £227,475 and the median freehold sale £334,975 — a gap of +47.3%. 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 | 8 | 3.4% | £227,475 |
| Freehold | 224 | 96.6% | £334,975 |
| New build | 7 | 3.0% | £275,000 |
| Existing home | 225 | 97.0% | £325,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -15.4%. 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 7 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 Old Road, Oxford
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 £323,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.80% 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 OX3, 231 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 88 violent, 14 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 19 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.
Against the 161,016 residents the 2021 census counted in Cherwell, that is 1.43 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 Old Road, Oxford
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.
15 state and independent schools have a OX3 postcode: 11 primary, 2 nursery, 1 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheney School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,706 |
| Windmill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 623 |
| St Nicholas' Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 382 |
| Wood Farm Primary School | Primary | Community school | 382 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Oxford | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 376 |
| New Marston Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 256 |
| Bayards Hill School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 234 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Oxford | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 208 |
| Barton Park Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 193 |
| Sandhills Community Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 193 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Oxford Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Oxford Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 6.3 km |
| Islip Rail Station | Rail | 7.3 km |
| Radley Rail Station | Rail | 8.7 km |
Section 09
How Old Road, Oxford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Old Road, Oxford sits above that national figure — +105.1%.
Within Oxford the street ranks 437 of 1517 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £249,000 (+29.7%).
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 £52,000 to £2,680,000. 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.
Old Road, Oxford 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
- London Road£214,000 median
- Green Ridges£163,000 median
- New High Street£206,000 median
- Headley Way£250,000 median
- Marston Road£235,000 median
- Lime Walk£300,000 median
- Dene Road£245,000 median
- Sherwood Place£199,950 median
- Ferry Road£254,975 median
- Windmill Road£315,000 median
- North Way£199,950 median
- Merewood Avenue£232,500 median
- Awgar Stone Road£179,950 median
- Stanway Road£220,000 median
- Bulan Road£213,500 median
- Collinwood Road£226,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 103 Old Road6 sales
- 172 Old Road6 sales
- 129 Old Road5 sales
- 43 Old Road4 sales
- 168 Old Road4 sales
- WINDRUSH COTTAGE Old Road4 sales
- 174 Old Road4 sales
- 143 Old Road4 sales
- 164 Old Road3 sales
- 137 Old Road3 sales
- 160 Old Road3 sales
- 170 Old Road3 sales
- UPPER FLAT, 139 Old Road3 sales
- 67 Old Road3 sales
- 125 Old Road3 sales
- 127 Old Road3 sales
- 21 Old Road3 sales
- 3 Old Road3 sales
- 123 Old Road3 sales
- 75 Old Road3 sales
- 77 Old Road3 sales
- BRYNDERI Old Road3 sales
- MOUETTE Old Road3 sales
- 31 Old Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Old Road, Oxford?
The median price paid in Old Road, Oxford across every sale on the register is £323,000. 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 Old Road, Oxford?
232 sales are on record for Old Road, Oxford, the most recent completing on 30 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Old Road, Oxford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +31.2% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Old Road, Oxford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,105,000, set in 2022. 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 Old Road, 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 30 Jan 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, “Old Road, 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.