That is the middle of 658 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 6.4 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.
658 homes sold in three years: 162 detached houses, 203 semi-detached houses, 173 terraced houses and 120 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£600K
median sale · 162 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£548K–£780K
Last 12 months
£645K41 sold
New build
£582K
Semi-detached houses£463K
median sale · 203 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£395K–£530K
Last 12 months
£470K58 sold
New build
£487K
Terraced houses£370K
median sale · 173 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£322K–£435K
Last 12 months
£365K50 sold
Flats and maisonettes£263K
median sale · 120 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£223K–£320K
Last 12 months
£271K26 sold
New build
£290K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 31% of sales
Detached houses25%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses26%
Flats and maisonettes18%
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 Thame’s homes sold for between £335K and £560K
One sale in ten was under £243K and one in ten over £735K. 11% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £435,000, sits in the £400–500K band
658 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £69,000 in 1995 to £440,000 in the last 12 months (£365,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
175 sales in the last 12 months, against 368 in 2001, the busiest year, and 163 in 2008. Sales fell by 30% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 63% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Thame costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Thame, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£122K
£193K
£305K
£355K
£495K
£605K
£645K
Semi-detached houses
£74K
£136K
£225K
£250K
£349K
£384K
£470K
Terraced houses
£60K
£114K
£188K
£213K
£283K
£348K
£365K
Flats and maisonettes
£47K
£83K
£133K
£173K
£190K
£230K
£271K
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
4% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
879 new homes have been sold in Thame since 1995; the share peaked at 34% in 2018.
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 £501,883
against £420,000 for a home sold on, 19% 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.
21% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.3% sold leasehold in Thame. 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
Welply Way is Thame’s busiest street, with 39 sales in three years
47 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Welply Way
OX9
39
£555,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
2
Beatrice Gardens
OX9
34
£439,975
Mixed · new builds
3
Chinnor Road
OX9
15
£420,000
Mixed
4
Youens Drive
OX9
14
£482,500
Mixed
5
Park Street
OX9
14
£430,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Greyhound Lane
OX9
14
£399,450
Mostly flats
7
Corbetts Way
OX9
13
£455,000
Mixed
8
Wellington Street
OX9
12
£310,000
Mixed
9
Sharman Beer Court
OX9
11
£232,500
Mostly flats
10
Vane Road
OX9
10
£413,750
Mixed
11
Cromwell Avenue
OX9
10
£334,000
Mixed
12
North Street
OX9
10
£332,500
Mixed
13
Ormond Road
OX9
10
£191,500
Mostly flats
14
High Street
OX9
9
£490,000
Mixed
15
Ludsden Grove
OX9
9
£475,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
College Close: £667,500
Thame median£435K
College Close£668K
Queens Road£619K
Esingdon Drive£587K
Welply Way£555K
Nelson Street£526K
Cheapest streets
Ormond Road: £191,500
Thame median£435K
Ormond Road£192K
Berkeley Road£214K
Orchard Close£220K
Denbigh Road£230K
Charlie Jones Road£230K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.5 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
Thame is the 15th most expensive of 40 towns in Oxfordshire
Thame is in the middle of Oxfordshire’s 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 Thame
What is the average house price in Thame?
The median home in Thame sold for £435,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 658 standard sales (£440,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £600,000, semi-detached houses £463,000, terraced houses £370,000 and flats and maisonettes £262,500.
Are house prices going up in Thame?
The median was £450,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£440,535), and £440,000 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 Thame each year?
175 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 248 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Thame?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: College Close (OX9, £667,500), Queens Road (OX9, £618,500) and Esingdon Drive (OX9, £587,000).
How much does a new build cost in Thame?
New homes sold for a median £501,883 over three years, against £420,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 13% of sales.
Is Thame expensive for Oxfordshire?
Thame is the 15th 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.