Painswick Close, Witney house prices are built from 135 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £146,500. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +2.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -25.2%.
Median price paid
£146,500
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+2.9%
Change in real terms
-25.2%
Median per m²
£3,143
HM Land Registry135 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Painswick Close, Witney prices moved
The chart tracks the median Painswick Close, Witney house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 4 | £64,950 | £144,220 |
| 2000s | 5 | £149,950 | £273,165 |
| 2010s | 1 | £225,000 | £317,250 |
| 2020s | 1 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Painswick Close, Witney is £230,000 in 2021; the lowest is £53,500 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £53,500 to £230,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,054, so the real change over the whole record is +150.4% — about +3.74% 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: +2.9% in cash against -25.2% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 29 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 61 | 27 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £237,000 | £242,152 |
| 6 | 9 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £344,250 | £362,233 |
| 3 | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £268,321 |
| 51 | 31 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £232,500 | £251,207 |
| 31 | 18 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| 28 | 21 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £429,570 |
| 41 | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £267,000 | £337,339 |
| 19 | 25 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 14 | 31 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £171,750 | £216,996 |
| 17 | 12 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 18 | 15 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| 37 | 6 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 1 | 4 Dec 2020 | Detached | £305,000 | £394,904 |
| 35 | 20 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 34 | 1 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £274,675 |
| 3 | 12 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £274,675 |
| 41 | 1 Feb 2018 | Terraced | £262,500 | £349,835 |
| 8 | 7 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £300,000 | £408,301 |
| 16 | 2 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £270,000 | £367,471 |
| 7 | 30 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £219,950 | £299,353 |
| 26 | 18 Oct 2016 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £362,970 |
| 30 | 30 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £254,000 | £354,594 |
| 32 | 11 May 2016 | Terraced | £215,000 | £300,149 |
| 35 | 5 Nov 2015 | Terraced | £195,000 | £274,950 |
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 Painswick Close, Witney values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Painswick Close | £59,500 (1998) | £225,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 61 Painswick Close | £101,950 (2001) | £237,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
| 6 Painswick Close | £59,500 (1995) | £344,250 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 3 Painswick Close | £123,500 (2002) | £255,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 51 Painswick Close | £54,750 (1995) | £232,500 (2023) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 31 Painswick Close | £59,000 (1995) | £295,000 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.6% |
| 28 Painswick Close | £135,000 (2000) | £340,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
| 41 Painswick Close | £262,500 (2018) | £267,000 (2021) | +0.6% | -1.2% |
| 19 Painswick Close | £59,500 (1996) | £260,000 (2021) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
| 17 Painswick Close | £94,000 (1999) | £230,000 (2021) | +4.2% | +1.9% |
| 18 Painswick Close | £49,950 (1996) | £200,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 35 Painswick Close | £143,000 (2009) | £240,000 (2020) | +4.8% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Painswick Close, Witney 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 58 | 43.0% | £146,500 | £49,950 – £300,000 |
| Semi-detached | 56 | 41.5% | £144,950 | £46,275 – £344,250 |
| Flat or maisonette | 15 | 11.1% | £145,000 | £69,000 – £240,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 4.4% | £132,500 | £75,000 – £305,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Painswick Close, Witney
20 of the sales on record are leasehold and 115 freehold — 14.8% 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 £110,225 and the median freehold sale £154,000 — a gap of +39.7%. 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 | 20 | 14.8% | £110,225 |
| Freehold | 115 | 85.2% | £154,000 |
A further 1 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 Painswick Close, Witney
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across West Oxfordshire, 50.4% of 56,675 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 282 | 0.5% |
| B | 10,088 | 17.8% |
| C | 18,176 | 32.1% |
| D | 17,006 | 30.0% |
| E | 7,950 | 14.0% |
| F | 2,481 | 4.4% |
| G | 692 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in West Oxfordshire at £1,284 a month as of Jun 2026 — £940 for a one-bedroom home and £1,494 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £146,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.52% 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 OX28, 134 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 53 violent, 1 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 17 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 114,237 residents the 2021 census counted in West Oxfordshire, that is 1.17 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 Painswick Close, Witney
The 2021 census counted 114,237 residents in West Oxfordshire across 47,981 households. 68.9% of those households own their home and 31.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a OX28 postcode: 9 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Green School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,335 |
| The Henry Box School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,027 |
| West Witney Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 434 |
| The Blake Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 367 |
| The Batt Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 289 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Witney | Primary | Academy converter | 247 |
| Witney Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 232 |
| Madley Brook Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 221 |
| Queen Emma's Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 179 |
| Tower Hill Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 174 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Finstock Rail Station | Rail | 7.4 km |
| Combe (Oxon) Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
| Hanborough Rail Station | Rail | 8.8 km |
| Charlbury Rail Station | Rail | 9.5 km |
Section 09
How Painswick Close, Witney compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Painswick Close, Witney sits below that national figure — -7.0%.
Within Witney the street ranks 551 of 594 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £227,500 (-35.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,143 per square metre, across 19 of the 135 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 £46,275 to £344,250. 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.
Painswick Close, Witney sits in West Oxfordshire, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in West Oxfordshire at 9.9 times median local earnings of £40,000 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
- Thorney Leys£163,000 median
- Manor Road£139,950 median
- Burwell Meadow£144,725 median
- St Marys Mead£144,500 median
- Farmers Close£178,000 median
- Woodstock Road£313,000 median
- Barrington Close£180,000 median
- Park Road£250,000 median
- Colwell Drive£196,500 median
- Eton Close£144,475 median
- West End£240,000 median
- Farmington Drive£143,250 median
- Harvest Way£199,995 median
- Blakes Avenue£144,750 median
- Priory Mill Lane£184,950 median
- Stow Avenue£145,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 14 Painswick Close6 sales
- 28 Painswick Close6 sales
- 19 Painswick Close6 sales
- 51 Painswick Close5 sales
- 34 Painswick Close5 sales
- 32 Painswick Close5 sales
- 6 Painswick Close4 sales
- 16 Painswick Close4 sales
- 9 Painswick Close4 sales
- 15 Painswick Close4 sales
- 22 Painswick Close4 sales
- 45 Painswick Close4 sales
- 43 Painswick Close4 sales
- 61 Painswick Close3 sales
- 3 Painswick Close3 sales
- 17 Painswick Close3 sales
- 18 Painswick Close3 sales
- 35 Painswick Close3 sales
- 7 Painswick Close3 sales
- 26 Painswick Close3 sales
- 30 Painswick Close3 sales
- 57 Painswick Close3 sales
- 29 Painswick Close3 sales
- 2 Painswick Close3 sales
Back to Witney house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Painswick Close, Witney?
The median price paid in Painswick Close, Witney across every sale on the register is £146,500. 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 Painswick Close, Witney?
135 sales are on record for Painswick Close, Witney, the most recent completing on 29 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Painswick Close, Witney house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +2.9% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -25.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Painswick Close, Witney house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £230,000, 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 Painswick Close, Witney?
£3,143 per square metre, from the 19 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 29 Sep 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, “Painswick Close, Witney 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.