As an agent in the Bicester property market, I believe it is important to offer local homeowners a balanced and realistic view of both the Bicester and national property markets.

For much of the last two decades, bungalows have quietly slipped out of fashion. Overshadowed by those glossy new build developments, three storey townhouses and open plan ‘modern living’, they became seen by many as somewhere only your granny lives rather than an aspirational home move.

For some homebuyers, the kitchen is the deal maker. For others, it is the number of bedrooms, the school catchment or the distance to the railway station. Yet for a sizeable group of buyers, the garden matters just as much as the house itself. Across Warfield and its surrounding villages, there are 240 homes with large gardens.

There is a quiet unspoken problem sitting inside the Binfield property market.