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Heywood market report OL10 2
The standing OL10 2 (Heywood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,601 registered sales in OL10 2 (Heywood) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OL10 2 (Heywood) came in at £234,000, out of 40 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £255,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,601 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like OL10 2 is a single group of streets within OL10 (Heywood), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OL10 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 a home in OL10 2 sells for
The OL10 2 median stands at £234,000 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £255,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
OL10 2 prices by floor area
A square metre of OL10 2 home has cost about £2,830 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL10 2 18% below the country at large.
A typical OL10 2 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £234,000 | £234,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £294,900 | £301,952 | 155 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 134 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 111 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 107 |
| 2021 | £223,000 | £282,347 | 131 |
| 2020 | £164,800 | £213,831 | 88 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 97 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 101 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 104 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 99 |
| 2015 | £160,200 | £226,363 | 122 |
| 2014 | £137,100 | £194,500 | 94 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 61 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 71 |
| 2011 | £163,200 | £246,369 | 77 |
| 2010 | £139,000 | £217,988 | 58 |
| 2009 | £122,500 | £196,920 | 54 |
| 2008 | £143,000 | £234,407 | 61 |
| 2007 | £121,800 | £206,607 | 156 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 127 |
| 2005 | £109,500 | £194,866 | 138 |
| 2004 | £104,800 | £190,337 | 152 |
| 2003 | £70,500 | £129,878 | 160 |
| 2002 | £86,800 | £163,313 | 256 |
| 2001 | £53,500 | £102,851 | 153 |
| 2000 | £48,800 | £95,770 | 106 |
| 1999 | £56,800 | £113,199 | 128 |
| 1998 | £53,200 | £107,388 | 122 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 113 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 117 |
| 1995 | £43,900 | £95,432 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical OL10 2 home went from £43,900 in 1995 to £234,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 145%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 24% 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 OL10 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 2002 (+62.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−21.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL10 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.7% | −22.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in OL10 2
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in OL10 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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.
What tenants pay around OL10 2
The local authority for OL10 2 is Rochdale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £829 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £603 a month here against £1,338 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £234,000 median sold price, £829 a month is £9,948 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 kind of market OL10 2 is
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL10 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within OL10, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about OL10 2 (Heywood)
Is OL10 2 (Heywood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL10 2 (Heywood)?
Are property prices falling in OL10 2 (Heywood)?
Are OL10 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
OL10's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL10 district, not just OL10 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Bury New Road, Heywood, Greater Manch...
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- Bury Street, Heywood, OL10 3HH, Heywood
"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 OL10 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
OL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OL10
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL10, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL10 1 | £200,500 | 18 |
| OL10 3 | £173,500 | 35 |
| OL10 4 | £181,500 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full OL10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL10 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OL10 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL10 2'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.
Estate agents working OL10 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OL10 2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about OL10 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL10 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.