That is the middle of 667 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.
667 homes sold in three years: 218 detached houses, 206 semi-detached houses, 193 terraced houses and 50 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£300K
median sale · 218 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£380K
Last 12 months
£299K59 sold
Semi-detached houses£195K
median sale · 206 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£174K–£225K
Last 12 months
£200K72 sold
Terraced houses£168K
median sale · 193 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£133K–£200K
Last 12 months
£172K57 sold
Flats and maisonettes£110K
median sale · 50 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£95K–£120K
Last 12 months
£112K10 sold
New build
£175K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 33% of sales
Detached houses33%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses29%
Flats and maisonettes7%
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 Oswestry’s homes sold for between £164K and £278K
One sale in ten was under £118K and one in ten over £375K. 67% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £205,000, sits in the £200–250K band
667 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 £41,500 in 1995 to £208,250 in the last 12 months (£146,997 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
198 sales in the last 12 months, against 500 in 2006, the busiest year, and 182 in 2011. Sales fell by 53% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 12%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 37% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Oswestry costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Oswestry, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Flats and maisonettes rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£68K
£82K
£180K
£182K
£207K
£255K
£299K
Semi-detached houses
£40K
£51K
£118K
£125K
£128K
£150K
£200K
Terraced houses
£34K
£40K
£104K
£111K
£118K
£130K
£172K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£26K
£107K
—
£103K
£83K
£112K
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
867 new homes have been sold in Oswestry since 1995; the share peaked at 20% in 2006.
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 £175,000
against £205,000 for a home sold on, 15% less, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
9% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.5% sold leasehold in Oswestry. 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
Roft Street is Oswestry’s busiest street, with 18 sales in three years
51 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 8 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
Roft Street
SY11
18
£113,750
Mostly flats
2
Park Avenue
SY11
16
£222,250
Mostly terraced houses
3
Cabin Lane
SY11
15
£225,000
Mixed
4
Vyrnwy Road
SY11
12
£175,000
Mixed
5
Henley Drive
SY11
11
£207,500
Mixed
6
Llwyn Road
SY11
11
£145,000
Mostly terraced houses
7
Bentley Drive
SY11
10
£323,500
Mixed
8
Albert Road
SY11
10
£142,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Ascot Road
SY11
9
£295,000
Mostly detached houses
10
Middleton Road
SY11
9
£265,500
Mostly detached houses
11
Ferrers Road
SY11
8
£257,500
Mostly terraced houses
12
Whitefriars
SY11
8
£212,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Aston Way
SY11
8
£199,975
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
College Road
SY11
8
£159,250
Mostly terraced houses
15
Lutton Close
SY11
8
£70,000
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Morda Close: £746,500
Oswestry median£205K
Morda Close£747K
Croeswylan Lane£520K
Oakhurst Road£441K
Hampton Road£400K
Hampton Rise£340K
Cheapest streets
Lutton Close: £70,000
Oswestry median£205K
Lutton Close£70K
Castle Street£112K
Roft Street£114K
Upper Church Street£128K
Prince Street£128K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 10.7 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 Shropshire
Oswestry is the 19th most expensive of 20 towns in Shropshire
Oswestry is one of Shropshire’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 Oswestry
What is the average house price in Oswestry?
The median home in Oswestry sold for £205,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 667 standard sales (£208,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £300,000, semi-detached houses £195,250, terraced houses £168,000 and flats and maisonettes £110,000.
Are house prices going up in Oswestry?
The median was £205,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£209,000), and £208,250 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 Oswestry each year?
198 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 261 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Oswestry?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Morda Close (SY11, £746,500), Croeswylan Lane (SY10, £520,000) and Oakhurst Road (SY11, £441,250).
How much does a new build cost in Oswestry?
New homes sold for a median £175,000 over three years, against £205,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 0.7% of sales.
Is Oswestry expensive for Shropshire?
Oswestry is the 19th most expensive of 20 towns of 2,500 or more in Shropshire 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.