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Chadderton market report OL1, Oldham
The OL1 (Chadderton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 8,548 registered sales in OL1 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for OL1 (Oldham) is £180,000, from 65 registered sales, up 40% on five years earlier; the mean is £198,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,180 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,548 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OL1 is a postcode district covering Chadderton, Higginshaw, Oldham in Oldham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where OL1 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.
OL1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 65 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL1 home went for £180,000. The mean is £198,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in OL1
A square metre of OL1 home has cost about £2,180 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OL1 sits 37% below the national market.
The price of a typical OL1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £174,000 | £178,161 | 161 |
| 2024 | £152,500 | £162,139 | 146 |
| 2023 | £141,500 | £155,474 | 164 |
| 2022 | £148,500 | £174,133 | 185 |
| 2021 | £129,000 | £163,331 | 213 |
| 2020 | £112,000 | £145,322 | 175 |
| 2019 | £107,600 | £141,038 | 278 |
| 2018 | £112,000 | £149,298 | 199 |
| 2017 | £99,000 | £135,026 | 187 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 178 |
| 2015 | £110,500 | £156,137 | 202 |
| 2014 | £98,000 | £139,030 | 220 |
| 2013 | £90,200 | £129,789 | 142 |
| 2012 | £74,000 | £108,919 | 120 |
| 2011 | £80,000 | £120,769 | 122 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 148 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 170 |
| 2008 | £97,500 | £159,823 | 258 |
| 2007 | £94,700 | £160,638 | 476 |
| 2006 | £88,700 | £153,972 | 440 |
| 2005 | £60,000 | £106,776 | 444 |
| 2004 | £65,000 | £118,053 | 455 |
| 2003 | £58,500 | £107,771 | 597 |
| 2002 | £47,200 | £88,806 | 464 |
| 2001 | £38,300 | £73,630 | 348 |
| 2000 | £30,200 | £59,268 | 340 |
| 1999 | £36,800 | £73,340 | 337 |
| 1998 | £31,500 | £63,585 | 291 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 330 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 416 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 277 |
In cash terms the typical OL1 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely 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, 2016 (−23.1%). 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) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.9% | +2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.8% | +4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 57% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £425,000 against £75,000 for a flat, 5.7 times the price.
Median by property type, OL1
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 | £310,000 | 9 | 859 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 27 | 2,410 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 25 | 4,892 |
| Flats | £75,000 (2024) | – | 363 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 133 sales completed in OL1. 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 144 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around OL1
OL1 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £180,000 median purchase price, a rent of £917 a month (£11,004 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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 market
This is a thin market: 133 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. In its area's price order OL1 comes 14 of 16, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Common questions on OL1 (Chadderton)
How much did a house sell for in OL1 (Chadderton)?
Are property prices falling in OL1 (Chadderton)?
Is OL1 (Chadderton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do OL1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 10% 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.
On the market in OL1 today
Everything above is what homes in OL1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 24 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the OL1 median sold price.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in OL
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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
OL1 ranks 1 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.
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.
Inside OL1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL1 1 | £37,000 | 1 |
| OL1 2 | £180,000 | 23 |
| OL1 3 | £141,500 | 5 |
| OL1 4 | £192,500 | 36 |
How OL1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 | £295,000 | +2% |
| OL15 | £227,800 | +21% |
| OL2 | £225,000 | +25% |
| OL9 | £215,000 | +28% |
| OL11 | £210,000 | +24% |
| OL16 | £210,000 | +35% |
| OL7 | £201,200 | +34% |
| OL5 | £195,000 | +15% |
| OL10 | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL12 | £195,000 | +18% |
| OL4 | £194,000 | +16% |
| OL6 | £192,500 | +23% |
| OL14 | £185,000 | +19% |
| OL1 (this report) | £180,000 | +40% |
| OL8 | £172,500 | +33% |
| OL13 | £171,800 | +15% |
Thinking of selling in OL1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every OL1 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.
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.