A typical home in Witney sells for about £344,000. Flats start at around £220,000. A semi costs nearer £370,000. Detached houses cost over half a million. Witney is a mid-priced Oxfordshire town where three bedrooms is the standard size and the semi is the house most people buy.
In the Land Registry's twelve months to May 2026, 380 homes sold in Witney at a median of about £344,000. Semis were the biggest group, with 115 sales at around £370,000. There were 102 terraces at about £325,000, 87 flats at about £220,000 and 76 detached houses at roughly £530,000. The semi changes hands more than any other house type here, and it costs about what the town's median buyer can stretch to.
The official house price index for the area fell about 2% in the year to May 2026, which is small. Flats fell further, by about 5%, so they are where a buyer has the most room to negotiate. Neither number says anything about next spring. Anyone hoping for a crash is watching the wrong part of Oxfordshire.
For council tax, Band C is the most common band in Witney, and only about 11% of homes are in the two cheapest bands, A and B. A Band D home pays about £2,570 a year, which is the easiest number to compare with your current bill. The cheap bands are rare here because cheap houses are rare here.
West Oxfordshire's typical private rent was about £1,270 a month as of April 2026. That is a mean taken from the Office for National Statistics rental index, across the whole district. By size across the same district, a one-bed averaged about £930, a two-bed about £1,180, a three-bed about £1,480 and a four-bed or larger about £2,040. No figure exists for studios or single rooms. That gap fits a town with almost no studios to rent.
The Office for National Statistics models median gross household income in Witney at about £61,800, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. A median price of £344,250 is within reach of two incomes and a decent deposit. On one salary it is a stretch, and a flat is the realistic starting point. The income figure is three years older than the prices, and house prices have kept moving since then.
The median works out at about £4,260 per square metre, across the 85% of sales the Land Registry figures could match to the floor area on an energy certificate. The typical home in those sales was about 85 square metres. Every sale has an energy certificate with the floor area on it, so ask for it and do the sum yourself; the photographs will not do it for you.
At the 2021 Census, about 41% of Witney's homes had three bedrooms, 27% two, 22% four or more, and 10% one. One-bed buyers are short of choice, and families can pick between plenty of three-bed semis.
For Oxfordshire, Witney's house prices are one of its better points: realistic for a family on two incomes, with a dip in flat prices for first-time buyers.