Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,452 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL1 (Oldham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
OL1 is the postcode district covering Chadderton, Higginshaw, Oldham in Oldham. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OL1 sits
Click the map to open OL1 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£160,000median sold price, 2026
+28%five-year change (cash)
204sales in the last 12 months
6.9%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in OL1 sells for
The 2026 median in OL1 is £160,000, from 53 registered sales; the mean, £187,000, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so OL1 trades 42% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OL1 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£160,000
£160,000
53
2025
£163,500
£163,500
246
2024
£140,000
£145,372
242
2023
£135,000
£144,868
231
2022
£135,000
£154,606
292
2021
£125,000
£154,570
309
2020
£99,000
£125,455
269
2019
£108,200
£138,512
367
2018
£98,000
£127,585
285
2017
£97,000
£129,208
251
2016
£84,500
£115,455
229
2015
£105,000
£144,900
229
2014
£95,000
£131,627
260
2013
£88,000
£123,666
156
2012
£74,000
£106,375
120
2011
£80,000
£117,949
122
2010
£90,000
£137,847
148
2009
£80,000
£125,597
170
2008
£97,500
£156,090
258
2007
£94,700
£156,886
476
2006
£88,700
£150,376
440
2005
£60,000
£104,282
444
2004
£65,000
£115,296
455
2003
£58,500
£105,254
597
2002
£47,200
£86,732
464
2001
£38,300
£71,910
348
2000
£30,200
£57,883
340
1999
£36,800
£71,628
337
1998
£31,500
£62,100
291
1997
£34,000
£68,099
330
1996
£43,500
£89,597
416
1995
£36,000
£76,431
277
In cash terms the typical OL1 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 109%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the OL1 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 (+47.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−21.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−2.1%
−2.1%
5 years (since 2021)
+5.1%
+0.7%
10 years (since 2016)
+6.6%
+3.3%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.0%
+0.3%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
OL1 recorded 204 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 446 sales a year before the financial crisis and 213 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
OL1 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £160,000 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 6.9%: 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.
Will OL1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and up 4% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
OL1 ranks 4 of 16 in the OL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OL1, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.