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Chadderton market report OL1 4, Oldham
The OL1 4 (Chadderton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,701 HM Land Registry entries for OL1 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 36 registered 2026 sales put the OL1 4 (Oldham) median at £192,500, up 48% on five years earlier, with a mean of £191,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,160 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,701 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
OL1 4 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 4 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 a home in OL1 4 sells for
Across 36 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL1 4 home went for £192,500. The mean is £191,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in OL1 4
Per square metre, OL1 4 homes have averaged around £2,160 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL1 4 trades 32% below the country as a whole.
A typical OL1 4 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 | £192,500 | £192,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £171,000 | £175,089 | 97 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 88 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 98 |
| 2022 | £145,000 | £170,029 | 104 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 99 |
| 2020 | £127,500 | £165,434 | 72 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 115 |
| 2018 | £111,000 | £147,965 | 101 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 91 |
| 2016 | £98,000 | £137,103 | 99 |
| 2015 | £116,000 | £163,908 | 119 |
| 2014 | £99,000 | £140,449 | 135 |
| 2013 | £93,500 | £134,537 | 70 |
| 2012 | £80,000 | £117,750 | 57 |
| 2011 | £81,000 | £122,279 | 53 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 71 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 93 |
| 2008 | £88,000 | £144,251 | 115 |
| 2007 | £92,800 | £157,415 | 280 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 272 |
| 2005 | £52,000 | £92,539 | 271 |
| 2004 | £60,000 | £108,972 | 249 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 342 |
| 2002 | £47,000 | £88,430 | 223 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 189 |
| 2000 | £30,400 | £59,660 | 192 |
| 1999 | £42,800 | £85,298 | 190 |
| 1998 | £38,700 | £78,119 | 156 |
| 1997 | £39,500 | £81,007 | 188 |
| 1996 | £44,200 | £93,216 | 255 |
| 1995 | £37,400 | £81,302 | 181 |
In cash terms the typical OL1 4 home went from £37,400 in 1995 to £192,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 137%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the OL1 4 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 2006 (+63.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−29.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.6% | +9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.2% | +3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.0% | +3.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in OL1 4
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 36 OL1 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 252 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 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.
The rental side of OL1 4
The local authority for OL1 4 is Oldham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £684 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,416, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Oldham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £192,500 median purchase price, a rent of £917 a month (£11,004 a year) works out at a 5.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the OL1 4 market
This is a thin market: 36 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.
Asked and answered: OL1 4 (Chadderton)
How much did a house sell for in OL1 4 (Chadderton)?
Are property prices falling in OL1 4 (Chadderton)?
Is OL1 4 (Chadderton) a good place to buy a house?
Are OL1 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 48% over five years in cash and up 17% 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 24 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL1 district, not just OL1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in OL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OL area. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the OL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in OL1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL1 1 | £37,000 | 1 |
| OL1 2 | £180,000 | 23 |
| OL1 3 | £141,500 | 5 |
Zoom out to the full OL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OL1 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL1 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL1 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL1 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working OL1 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OL1 4.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual OL1 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.