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Chadderton market report OL1 2, Oldham
The standing OL1 2 (Chadderton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,726 HM Land Registry entries for OL1 2 (Oldham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for OL1 2 (Oldham) is £180,000, from 23 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier; the mean is £231,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,440 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,726 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OL1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OL1 (Oldham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where OL1 2 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.
What buyers actually paid in OL1 2
Across 23 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL1 2 home went for £180,000. The mean is £231,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in OL1 2
A square metre of OL1 2 home has cost about £2,440 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OL1 2 runs 37% below it.
A typical OL1 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £204,500 | £209,390 | 46 |
| 2024 | £209,000 | £222,210 | 37 |
| 2023 | £163,500 | £179,647 | 48 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 62 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 94 |
| 2020 | £138,000 | £179,058 | 65 |
| 2019 | £163,800 | £214,703 | 66 |
| 2018 | £143,000 | £190,622 | 76 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 71 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 54 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 64 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 69 |
| 2013 | £108,000 | £155,401 | 51 |
| 2012 | £99,000 | £145,716 | 39 |
| 2011 | £82,000 | £123,788 | 49 |
| 2010 | £103,800 | £162,785 | 60 |
| 2009 | £87,500 | £140,657 | 57 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 83 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 120 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 121 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 105 |
| 2004 | £86,000 | £156,193 | 140 |
| 2003 | £60,500 | £111,456 | 183 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 185 |
| 2001 | £41,000 | £78,820 | 123 |
| 2000 | £31,300 | £61,426 | 112 |
| 1999 | £33,000 | £65,767 | 112 |
| 1998 | £27,000 | £54,501 | 104 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 96 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 133 |
| 1995 | £35,800 | £77,824 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical OL1 2 home went from £35,800 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 131%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL1 2 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 2017 (+47.1% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−30.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.0% | −14.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.9% | +1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.8% | +4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in OL1 2
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
OL1 2 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around OL1 2
The local authority for OL1 2 is Oldham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £180,000 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 6.1%: 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.
How OL1 2 trades
This is a thin market: 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
OL1 2 (Chadderton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in OL1 2 (Chadderton)?
Are property prices falling in OL1 2 (Chadderton)?
Is OL1 2 (Chadderton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to OL1 2 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
OL1's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 24 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL1 district, not just OL1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Waverley Court , Waverley Street, OL1 4GA, Waverley Street
- Riverside, Chadderton, OL1 2TX, Chadderton
- Glendon Court, Oldham, OL1, Oldham
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every OL1 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
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 | — | £257,697 | £349,995 (+36%) | £495,000 (+41%) | £620,000 (+25%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £205,000 (+14%) | £251,000 (+22%) | £320,000 (+27%) | £375,000 (+17%) |
| Terraced | £135,000 | £149,000 (+10%) | £172,000 (+15%) | £212,500 (+24%) | £260,000 (+22%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £145,000 (+21%) | £205,000 (+41%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the OL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OL1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL1 1 | £37,000 | 1 |
| OL1 3 | £141,500 | 5 |
| OL1 4 | £192,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full OL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OL1 2: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL1 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL1 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL1 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OL1 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OL1 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.