That is the middle of 624 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 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.
A third of Wantage’s sales are semi-detached houses
624 homes sold in three years: 182 detached houses, 201 semi-detached houses, 128 terraced houses and 113 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£488K
median sale · 182 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£405K–£578K
Last 12 months
£515K37 sold
New build
£480K
Semi-detached houses£350K
median sale · 201 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£400K
Last 12 months
£340K54 sold
New build
£480K
Terraced houses£303K
median sale · 128 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£353K
Last 12 months
£320K37 sold
Flats and maisonettes£187K
median sale · 113 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£150K–£208K
Last 12 months
£195K33 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses29%
Semi-detached houses32%
Terraced houses21%
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 Wantage’s homes sold for between £268K and £438K
One sale in ten was under £193K and one in ten over £575K. 21% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £350,000, sits in the £300–400K band
624 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 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £67,500 in 1995 to £335,000 in the last 12 months (£310,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
161 sales in the last 12 months, against 382 in 2021, the busiest year, and 128 in 2008. Sales fell by 34% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 20%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 46% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Wantage costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Wantage, 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
£103K
£199K
£250K
£348K
£420K
£440K
£515K
Semi-detached houses
£68K
£119K
£207K
£222K
£280K
£310K
£340K
Terraced houses
£56K
£110K
£210K
£188K
£250K
£258K
£320K
Flats and maisonettes
£47K
£78K
£183K
£158K
£165K
£178K
£195K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 40% in 2020
1,412 new homes have been sold in Wantage since 1995; the share peaked at 40% in 2020.
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 £479,995
against £335,000 for a home sold on, 43% 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.
18% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.4% sold leasehold in Wantage. 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
Flowe Drive is Wantage’s busiest street, with 27 sales in three years
45 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
Flowe Drive
OX12
27
£400,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
2
Cherry Croft
OX12
22
£440,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
3
Newbury Street
OX12
17
£172,500
Mostly flats
4
Palmers
OX12
16
£398,750
Mixed
5
Stockham Park
OX12
16
£292,500
Mostly terraced houses
6
Grove Street
OX12
16
£291,000
Mixed
7
Springfield Road
OX12
13
£285,000
Mixed
8
Westfield Way
OX12
12
£381,250
Mixed
9
Mill Street
OX12
12
£197,500
Mostly flats
10
Badgers Drive
OX12
10
£385,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Warmans Close
OX12
10
£367,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Hiskins
OX12
10
£260,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Smiths Wharf
OX12
10
£207,500
Mostly flats
14
Whittington Crescent
OX12
9
£300,000
Mixed
15
Barwell
OX12
9
£295,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Stockham Gardens: £912,500
Wantage median£350K
Stockham Gardens£913K
Belmont£684K
Mary Shunn Way£583K
Humphries Green£520K
Trinder Road£518K
Cheapest streets
St Marys: £104,500
Wantage median£350K
St Marys£105K
Wallingford Street£142K
Portway£157K
Limborough Road£170K
Newbury Street£173K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.7 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
Wantage is the 31st most expensive of 40 towns in Oxfordshire
Wantage 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 Wantage
What is the average house price in Wantage?
The median home in Wantage sold for £350,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 624 standard sales (£335,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £487,500, semi-detached houses £350,000, terraced houses £302,500 and flats and maisonettes £186,500.
Are house prices going up in Wantage?
The median was £360,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£346,000), and £335,000 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 Wantage each year?
161 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 274 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Wantage?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Stockham Gardens (OX12, £912,500), Belmont (OX12, £683,500) and Mary Shunn Way (OX12, £582,750).
How much does a new build cost in Wantage?
New homes sold for a median £479,995 over three years, against £335,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 9.3% of sales.
Is Wantage expensive for Oxfordshire?
Wantage is the 30th 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.