A typical house in Woodstock sells for a little under £540,000. Terraces go for about £414,000. Detached houses go for nearer £900,000. Flats are the cheap way in, and they are cheap only by Woodstock's standards. The town comes with a palace next door, and nobody knocks anything off for the view of the wall.
The Land Registry recorded 40 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £538,000. By type, 18 terraced houses sold for a median of about £414,000, six semi-detached houses for about £551,000, ten detached houses for about £883,000 and six flats for about £235,000. With samples that small, two big sales on the edge of Bladon or Wootton can move the semi and detached figures noticeably. Before trusting the six-flat median, get the sold prices for the same building or street from the Land Registry, because a median of six barely counts as a market.
The house price index for the wider area, which puts the average home at about £417,000 as of May 2026, fell 2.4% over the previous twelve months. Flats fell harder, down about 5% over the same year. Both are recorded changes over a year that has already happened, and over five years the same index is still up about 21%. A small dip like that buys a buyer some room to negotiate, and the market has not fallen off a cliff.
The most common council-tax band in Woodstock is D, and only about 14% of homes are in bands A and B. A band D home pays about £2,567 a year. That is one of the few costs here set by a council formula, so the palace has no say in it.
West Oxfordshire's typical private rent is about £1,270 a month as of April 2026, a district-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index. A town with a palace in its back garden may well let above that, so read it as a floor for Woodstock. Across the district, one-bedroom homes average about £931 a month, two-bedrooms about £1,178, three-bedrooms about £1,479 and four or more about £2,037. Rents in the district were down 1.2% over the year, which is small comfort and still comfort.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income at about £74,000 for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the wider statistical area. That is before tax, and three years old, which flatters it twice. Against a typical sale price above half a million, it puts the starter end of the market within reach of a two-income household with a deposit, and the detached end within reach of people whose money came from somewhere else. Most of the people buying the big houses near the park did not earn the deposit locally.
Homes here sell for a median of about £5,400 per square metre across the 33 sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 82% of the year's sales. The typical home behind that figure is about 89 square metres, which is a modest family house on a palace-town price. In Woodstock you pay for the postcode by the square metre.
At the 2021 Census, about 10% of homes had one bedroom, 25% had two, 37% had three and 28% had four or more. Three bedrooms is the typical Woodstock house, and a quarter of the stock has four or more, which keeps the median expensive even when the flats get cheaper.
Woodstock is a dear town in a soft year. The dip has taken a little off the top, but buyers who want the town on a normal salary will still find it a stretch.