That is the middle of 109 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 6.2 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.
109 homes sold in three years: 46 detached houses, 40 semi-detached houses, 16 terraced houses and 7 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£509K
median sale · 46 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£435K–£715K
Last 12 months
£504K16 sold
Semi-detached houses£387K
median sale · 40 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£350K–£450K
Last 12 months
£416K18 sold
Terraced houses£345K
median sale · 16 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£406K
Last 12 months
£355K6 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 7 sold, median £191K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 42% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses42%
Semi-detached houses37%
Terraced houses15%
Flats and maisonettes6%
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 Yarnton’s homes sold for between £350K and £513K
One sale in ten was under £250K and one in ten over £745K. 9% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £425,000, sits in the £400–500K band
109 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.2 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 £425,000 in the last 12 months (£325,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
41 sales in the last 12 months, against 86 in 2011, the busiest year, and 19 in 2009. Sales fell by 60% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 8%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 126% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Yarnton costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Yarnton, 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
£121K
£195K
£310K
£435K
£463K
£428K
£504K
Semi-detached houses
£66K
£128K
£205K
£226K
£320K
£370K
£416K
Terraced houses
£60K
—
£168K
£198K
£288K
£258K
£355K
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: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
142 new homes have been sold in Yarnton since 1995; the share peaked at 49% in 2011.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
9% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.9% sold leasehold in Yarnton. 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
Great Close Road is Yarnton’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
9 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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
Great Close Road
OX5
12
£341,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Dashwood Avenue
OX5
9
£412,500
Mixed
3
Meadow Way
OX5
8
£362,500
Mixed
4
Woodstock Road
OX5
7
£499,450
Mixed
5
Aysgarth Road
OX5
7
£390,000
Mixed
6
Cresswell Close
OX5
7
£195,000
Mixed
7
Cassington Road
OX5
6
£755,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Rutten Lane
OX5
6
£434,000
Mixed
9
The Paddocks
OX5
6
£355,000
Mixed
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
Yarnton is the 17th most expensive of 40 towns in Oxfordshire
Yarnton 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 Yarnton
What is the average house price in Yarnton?
The median home in Yarnton sold for £425,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 109 standard sales (£425,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £509,000, semi-detached houses £386,859, terraced houses £345,000 and flats and maisonettes £191,250.
Are house prices going up in Yarnton?
The median was £444,375 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£426,250), and £425,000 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 Yarnton each year?
41 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 42 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Yarnton?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Cassington Road (OX5, £755,000), Woodstock Road (OX5, £499,450) and Rutten Lane (OX5, £434,000).
Is Yarnton expensive for Oxfordshire?
Yarnton is the 17th 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.