Spacious Luxury- Centre Of Oxford's Science Vale

Front garden with 7ft marble statue (1 of 2)

WELCOME to my refurbished 3 double bedroom luxury home (share occasionally with owner who's away 1-2 weekends a month) and one other senior professional. on prestige top of hill part of Abingdon-on-Thames, centre of Oxford's and UK's 'Science Vale'. 5 min by car to Oxford, or 10 min using 4 excellent frequent bus services (every 10 min daytime) day and night. My other guest is away travelling early May for 2 months in the next 3 months so house will be very quiet indeed

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*QUIET PEACEFUL LUXURY RENOVATED 220SQM fully furnished 3 double bedroom 2 bathroom home with £50,000 of furniture, fixtures and fittings

* OFFERING LARGE BEDROOM 13ft x 12ft (3.5m x3.2m) KING SIZE BED. Overlooks peaceful front garden. Large wardrobe and large chest of drawers with ample further storage space for say a desk or additional drawers. Extra space in huge fully fitted double storey 100 SQM workshop garage

* CLEANER DAILY and fresh wholesome food provided daily by arrangement

*EASY TO RELAX, STRETCH OUT AND CHILL in large 27ft family room/kitchen or separate sitting room

* HOUSE W WEEKLY FLOWERS and INDOOR PLANTS and V QUIET - set well back from road with parkland 'village green' in front. Lots of indoor plants and weekly flower bouquets

* 27 ft FAMILY ROOM and separate SITTING ROOM have been retained, so am offering 4 TIMES MORE LIVING SPACE- my home is certainly NOT a cold HMO 'House of Multiple Occupation'. Adjacent corporate landlords have taken identical properties, converting family room and sitting room into 2 further bedrooms, so making 5 bedrooms, cramming in 6 to 7 professionals paying similar rent.

*NO NEED TO QUEUE MORNINGS AND EVENINGS JUST TO USE TOILET, SHOWER OR BATH, or QUEUE FOR KITCHEN or try to find clean pans, plates and cutlery, or some space on fully occupied sofa or 'communal' table. (HMOs provide little living space to relax or chill, renters forced to eat in their bedroom if they seek some relaxing peace and quiet downtime after a full on hard day's work

*V SPACIOUS GENEROUS 75SQM PER PERSON. Often away 1 to 2 weekends in month so you get 220 SQ M LUXURY HOME

* FULLY EQUIPPED 27ft KITCHEN/FAMILY ROOM. Brand new TOP OF RANGE £3000 Smeg range cooker; top combi microwave oven; Miele washing machine; top of range Nespresso coffee machine; toaster; grill; full crockery, pans, cooking utensils

* SITTING ROOM w large TV and brand new £3000 JOHN LEWIS leather sofa and armchair, antiques, £5000 rugs, classic decor, William Morris curtains etc

* LARGE 1000SQM GARDEN with 2 classic 7ft 2m tall Graeco-Roman marble statues, lawns, topiary, flowers, barbecue.

* BT OPENZONE super fast Unlimited broadband 100Mbps
* SECURE OFF ROAD PARKING, large garage, car port
* 4 CCTV CAMERAS protect house and car
* SEPARATE DESK/STUDY AREA
* IF any maintenance issue arises, home owner available 24/7

Speak fluent English and Portuguese, understand Spanish and Italian, connections to Australia and Latin America

Whenever have advertised, I have had a lot of enquiries. Invariably the room is taken by the person invited to view if they have high professional standards.

Kindly see note at bottom of ad: per official HM Govt figures this area (Oxford-Abingdon BRMA 'Broad Rental Market Area') had the 3RD HIGHEST rents in UK due to exceptional demand in centre of Oxford Abingdon Science Tech Triangle called 'Science Vale,' UK's and Oxford's answer to Silicon Valley.

Genuine photos (not used agents or corporate landlords software to magically make small rooms appear 50% bigger (HMO ads often only show largest bedroom which invariably is 'unavailable')

***GENERAL INFO- ABINGDON/OXFORD***

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N ABINGDON EFFECTIVELY OXFORD SUBURB- JUST 5 MIN BY CAR AND JUST 3 BUS STOPS to OXFORD PARK & RIDE 'P &R'. For 65% of journey, buses are speeding on fast A34 DUAL CARRIAGEWAY, whisking you at 60-70mph into Oxford P & R (10 min), then just 4 more stops to Oxford High St/Carfax/Cornmarket. Official bus timetables show my home is 10 min FASTER to Carfax tower Oxford's official centre than from Cowley, Headington, Botley etc!

* FAST FREQUENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT 24 HRS A DAY- bus stops adjacent house operate 20 hours a day 05.15 hrs - 00.38 hrs. V frequent buses every 10 min to Oxford High St (10 min) or railway station (12 min), Oxford Brookes (15min) JR Hosp (18min) or Milton/Harwell/Culham technology parks and Didcot. 2 more bus routes 2 mins walk go via Radley Kennington to Oxford or Wantage. New bus service to Culham and Wallingford. Abingdon is county's 2nd biggest bus hub after Oxford

* 24 HOUR LATE NIGHT BUSES FRI/SAT NIGHTS To/from Oxford

* CAR- 2 min to A34 (6 min to 'Oxford South' Redbridge P&R; 10 min 'Oxford West' Seacourt P&R; 15 min JR Hospital; A34 south 5 min to M4; 5 min Culham, 10 min Harwell/Milton Park

NEARBY FACILITIES:-
*Ultra convenient Tesco Express and 2nd grocery shop open 6AM-11PM DAILY 7 DAYS A WEEK just 20 seconds, Waitrose 5 min walk

*Riverside Thames pubs with gardens, 20 pubs with gardens incl 2 excellent historic pubs (one just had £1M refurbishment) both with gardens 2 min and 4 min walk, historic Abbey cinema, Thames boating, Cotswolds/Chilterns hills accessible, delightful cycling and jogging trails

*Pleasant 5 min stroll to historic Abingdon-on-Thames centre 5 min or stroll to town via Sturt river nature trail and Boxhill Park with birdlife incl kingfishers

Abingdon is England's 'longest continuous human settlement' with market days and coffee shops.
Abingdon is Oxfordshire's most prosperous locality with HIGHEST AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOMES, 40% higher than Oxford, 10% higher than Henley.

Average house prices in Abingdon and Oxford are the same (per latest Land Registry official govt figures 2024).

Abingdon is ULTRA SAFE ('Oxfordshire's safest town' per crimerate' govt website), way below South East and UK averages. Oxford has a significantly higher crime rate, 10 times higher than Abingdon and a 'crime hotspot'.

Abingdon doesn't have social/crime problems of Oxford, Banbury or Didcot which have 12 and 6 'multi deprivation areas' (govt poverty measures of UK's least well off 10% areas). Of 60 wards in county, the ward my house is in has 2nd lowest crime rate in whole county of Oxfordshire.
(The sole Multi Deprivation area in locality is South Abingdon 3 miles away, south of Thames and south west of town on low lying ground).

Abingdon has 5 SCHOOLS IN UK's 'Sunday Times TOP 50 schools national league tables', so has unparalleled educational excellence in country

BOXHILL PARK 1 min away- gym exercise equipment. 3 gyms and large swimming pool/sports centre. Extensive Thames river parkland is a very easy pleasant relaxing walk/cycle esp to Abbey Gardens and Abingdon lock

Any further questions, kindly msg me,
Nicky

****RENTAL FACTS****
OXFORD/ABINGDON HAS 4th HIGHEST RENTS IN COUNTRY (per official govt analysis of all rents paid)

OXFORD-ABINGDON BRMA 'Broad Rental Market Area' currently only Central London and Inner N London BRMAs are higher in whole of country); The 'Abingdon-Oxford BRMA' has 175,000 households, of which only 65,000 (approx 35%) are in Oxford or Abingdon the 2 largest urban areas in the BRMA. Abingdon Oxford rents are naturally higher because of demand due to large cluster of science and technology businesses and world famous university

The Abingdon-Oxford BRMA is an approx 15-20 mile circle centred on N Abingdon, out to Chipping Norton to north; M40 Wallingford to east; Didcot/Wantage to south; Carterton and Witney to west. Hence the average for the Abingdon Oxford BRMA includes many rural area rentals deep in the countryside. This 'average' thus artificially brings down significantly the 'average' calculation for anyone choosing more expensive or desirable Abingdon or Oxford.

(The official HM Govt website shows rents averaged within every BRMA in UK. The govt then takes the rent paid by the LOWEST 10% for each BRMA and makes this the maximum 'Housing Benefit' govt pays in every single UK postcode).

In ABINGDON-OXFORD BRMA, the UK govt awards Universal Credit benefit claimants £550PM for an 'UNFURNISHED SINGLE room.' Frozen by govt for past 5 years by govt. Hence as market rents rose, this meant there were no single unfurnished rooms affordable in this BRMA the past 2 years. It has just from April 2024. been unfrozen by govt and increased by 16% However because market rents have jumped 35% in this 5 year period, Housing Benefit rates within this BRMA should in reality be £750 for a small 'unfurnished single room' in Abingdon-Oxford BRMA. Thus even £750 will barely afford many single rooms in this BRMA area except at furthest extremities from Abingdon-Oxford and most rural parts of BRMA's 20 mile radius. Benefit recipients must also additionally of course pay council tax, power, water rates etc and provide their own or buy furniture too

(Housing Benefit for a 'self contained one bedroom' was also frozen 4 years ago at £740, but this month in April 2024 was unfrozen and increased by 16% to £900. However as market rents have risen by approx 35% over 4 year period, even at £900 the govt now pays, it still won't be affordable for the bottom 10% of rentals within 15 mile radius of centre of the Abingdon-Oxford BRMA in N Abingdon).

(The official University of Oxford website in June last year quoted Oxford colleges "heavily subsidised most common rentals for 175 days a year are £6-£7,000" or £240-280pw or £1040-1215pm ie an annualised £13-14,000. In the remaining half of year, Oxford colleges rent out rooms to tourists at somewhat inflated tourist rates to subsidise their student single rooms). Of course since this was published on the official Oxford University website, market rents have increased 10%

Please appreciate on offer is a large fully furnished double room in a luxury fully equipped luxury home with all facilities included. It's not a small unfurnished room full of 6 or more people in a crammed HMO or for a benefit recipient only able to afford the bottom 5% of unfurnished single rooms