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Oldham market report OL
The OL (Oldham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 207,187 registered sales in the OL postcode area (Oldham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the OL postcode area (Oldham) came in at £200,500, out of 2,316 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £228,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,430 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 207,187 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The figures for OL centred on Oldham run across 16 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where OL sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
OL sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 2,316 registered 2026 sales in OL and the middle price, the median, is £200,500. The mean lands at £228,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in OL
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OL sales average about £2,430 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OL 30% below the national figure.
OL's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,500 | £200,500 | 2,316 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 5,641 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 5,150 |
| 2023 | £178,000 | £195,579 | 4,773 |
| 2022 | £178,000 | £208,725 | 6,100 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 7,064 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 5,190 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 5,982 |
| 2018 | £128,000 | £170,626 | 6,094 |
| 2017 | £127,000 | £173,215 | 6,409 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 6,062 |
| 2015 | £122,000 | £172,386 | 5,656 |
| 2014 | £117,000 | £165,985 | 5,401 |
| 2013 | £111,400 | £160,293 | 4,328 |
| 2012 | £108,000 | £158,963 | 3,647 |
| 2011 | £102,500 | £154,736 | 3,792 |
| 2010 | £106,000 | £166,235 | 4,028 |
| 2009 | £109,000 | £175,218 | 3,860 |
| 2008 | £112,000 | £183,592 | 5,243 |
| 2007 | £114,500 | £194,224 | 9,825 |
| 2006 | £105,500 | £183,135 | 10,116 |
| 2005 | £92,000 | £163,723 | 8,335 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 9,583 |
| 2003 | £63,000 | £116,061 | 9,810 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 10,363 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 8,906 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 8,418 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 8,198 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 7,309 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 7,047 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 6,539 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 6,002 |
In cash terms the typical OL home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £200,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 143%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2025; the current median sits about 4% below that. Someone who bought at the 2025 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−3.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £350,000 against £131,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, OL
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £350,000 | 402 | 32,442 |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | 733 | 61,181 |
| Terraced | £170,000 | 1,067 | 104,921 |
| Flats | £131,500 | 114 | 8,643 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +5.5% | +1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in OL
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
OL recorded 4,272 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 9,420 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,796 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around OL
For renting purposes OL sits in Oldham, the local authority covering most of the OL area (parts fall under Rochdale and Tameside, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £917 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £684 a month here against £1,416 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Oldham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £200,500 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about OL (Oldham)
Are property prices falling in OL (Oldham)?
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Where do OL prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in OL now
Everything above is what homes in OL sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 389 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% below the OL median sold price.
Set against 4,272 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 389 homes on the market here are roughly 5 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. Supply that short favours the seller; a sensibly priced home here does not sit for long.
Of everything listed here, 8% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- St. Peters Gate, Walsden, Todmorden
- Edmund Street, Walsden, Todmorden
- Whittaker Drive, Smithy Bridge OL15 8QR, Littleborough
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every OL home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
When homes in OL change hands
Take the 28,728 OL sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.3% of the total, January trails with 6.4%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,833 | 6.4% |
| February | 2,245 | 7.8% |
| March | 2,955 | 10.3% |
| April | 2,088 | 7.3% |
| May | 2,095 | 7.3% |
| June | 2,555 | 8.9% |
| July | 2,401 | 8.4% |
| August | 2,593 | 9.0% |
| September | 2,712 | 9.4% |
| October | 2,395 | 8.3% |
| November | 2,457 | 8.6% |
| December | 2,399 | 8.4% |
What another bedroom costs in OL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £235,000 | £260,000 (+11%) | £309,995 (+19%) | £365,000 (+18%) | £463,500 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | £185,000 (+6%) | £217,975 (+18%) | £270,000 (+24%) | £328,750 (+22%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £142,000 (+9%) | £160,000 (+13%) | £185,000 (+16%) | £215,000 (+16%) |
| Flat | £112,500 | £131,500 (+17%) | £180,000 (+37%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every OL district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL3 Delph, Denshaw | £297,500 | +3% | 94 |
| OL2 Heyside, Royton | £225,000 | +25% | 265 |
| OL15 Littleborough, Shore | £225,000 | +19% | 102 |
| OL11 Rochdale (south), Ashworth | £217,500 | +28% | 212 |
| OL9 Chadderton, Oldham | £210,000 | +25% | 185 |
| OL16 Rochdale (east), Burnedge | £210,000 | +35% | 188 |
| OL4 Austerlands, Grasscroft | £200,000 | +19% | 207 |
| OL12 Rochdale (north), Buckley | £200,000 | +21% | 245 |
| OL5 Mossley, Mossley Cross | £195,000 | +15% | 75 |
| OL10 Heywood | £195,000 | +23% | 149 |
| OL7 Ashton-under-Lyne (west), Guide Bridge | £193,000 | +29% | 59 |
| OL6 Ashton-under-Lyne (centre and east) | £188,600 | +20% | 116 |
| OL1 Chadderton, Higginshaw | £185,000 | +43% | 82 |
| OL14 Cornholme, Todmorden | £179,000 | +15% | 120 |
| OL13 Bacup, Britannia | £171,800 | +15% | 112 |
| OL8 Bardsley, Oldham | £170,000 | +31% | 105 |
Thinking of selling in OL? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual OL sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.