That is the middle of 740 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.7 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
740 homes sold in three years: 239 detached houses, 232 semi-detached houses, 178 terraced houses and 91 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£455K
median sale · 239 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£380K–£515K
Last 12 months
£469K68 sold
New build
£485K
Semi-detached houses£325K
median sale · 232 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£292K–£360K
Last 12 months
£340K53 sold
New build
£327K
Terraced houses£294K
median sale · 178 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£320K
Last 12 months
£310K44 sold
New build
£295K
Flats and maisonettes£180K
median sale · 91 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£155K–£196K
Last 12 months
£185K25 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses32%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes12%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Carterton’s homes sold for between £278K and £400K
One sale in ten was under £198K and one in ten over £500K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £325,000, sits in the £300–400K band
740 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.7 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £60,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in the last 12 months (£263,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
190 sales in the last 12 months, against 546 in 2006, the busiest year, and 189 in 2011. Sales fell by 59% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 12%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 57% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Carterton costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Carterton, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£85K
£143K
£250K
£250K
£320K
£395K
£469K
Semi-detached houses
£60K
£96K
£179K
£191K
£250K
£295K
£340K
Terraced houses
£55K
£87K
£170K
£170K
£230K
£258K
£310K
Flats and maisonettes
£41K
£58K
£135K
£128K
£160K
£145K
£185K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 2.1% of sales in the last 12 months
1,938 new homes have been sold in Carterton since 1995; the share peaked at 57% in 2005.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £369,000
against £320,000 for a home sold on, 15% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.3% sold leasehold in Carterton. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Elmhurst Way is Carterton’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
60 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 16 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Elmhurst Way
OX18
19
£285,000
Mixed
2
Miles Drive
OX18
17
£369,000
Mixed · new builds
3
Burford Road
OX18
14
£441,250
Mixed
4
Symonds Lane
OX18
14
£338,500
Mixed · new builds
5
Queens Road
OX18
14
£314,500
Mixed
6
Moneymaker Close
OX18
12
£403,300
Mostly detached houses · new builds
7
Millis Road
OX18
12
£396,000
Mixed · new builds
8
Oakfield Road
OX18
12
£364,000
Mixed
9
Dovetrees
OX18
12
£292,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
Lower Ground Close
OX18
11
£485,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
11
Heton Avenue
OX18
11
£355,000
Mixed · new builds
12
Shillbrook Avenue
OX18
11
£350,000
Mixed
13
Stanmore Crescent
OX18
11
£200,000
Mixed
14
Edgeworth Drive
OX18
10
£345,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Mayfield Close
OX18
10
£274,075
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Swinbrook Road: £522,500
Carterton median£325K
Swinbrook Road£523K
Lower Ground Close£485K
Corbett Road£475K
Heirloom Crescent£443K
Burford Road£441K
Cheapest streets
Harvest Bank: £155,000
Carterton median£325K
Harvest Bank£155K
The Larches£180K
Meadow Way£190K
Trefoil Way£198K
Stanmore Crescent£200K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.4 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Oxfordshire
Carterton is the 38th most expensive of 40 towns in Oxfordshire
Carterton is one of Oxfordshire’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Carterton
What is the average house price in Carterton?
The median home in Carterton sold for £325,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 740 standard sales (£340,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £455,000, semi-detached houses £325,000, terraced houses £294,000 and flats and maisonettes £180,000.
Are house prices going up in Carterton?
The median was £331,250 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£320,000), and £340,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Carterton each year?
190 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 273 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Carterton?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Swinbrook Road (OX18, £522,500), Lower Ground Close (OX18, £485,000) and Corbett Road (OX18, £475,000).
How much does a new build cost in Carterton?
New homes sold for a median £369,000 over three years, against £320,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 17% of sales.
Is Carterton expensive for Oxfordshire?
Carterton is the 38th most expensive of 40 towns of 2,500 or more in Oxfordshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.