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Heywood market report OL10 3
The OL10 3 (Heywood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,360 HM Land Registry entries for OL10 3 (Heywood), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 35 registered 2026 sales put the OL10 3 (Heywood) median at £173,500, up 20% on five years earlier, with a mean of £194,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,210 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,360 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
OL10 3 is one sector of OL10 (Heywood): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where OL10 3 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 3 sells for
The OL10 3 median stands at £173,500 for 2026, built from 35 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £194,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in OL10 3
Per square metre, OL10 3 homes have averaged around £2,210 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL10 3 39% below the country at large.
The price of a typical OL10 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £173,500 | £173,500 | 35 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 95 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 90 |
| 2023 | £164,000 | £180,196 | 102 |
| 2022 | £169,100 | £198,289 | 113 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 127 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 95 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 113 |
| 2018 | £107,500 | £143,300 | 115 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 135 |
| 2016 | £105,000 | £146,896 | 99 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 159 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 147 |
| 2013 | £98,200 | £141,300 | 88 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 69 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 82 |
| 2010 | £98,200 | £154,003 | 64 |
| 2009 | £87,000 | £139,853 | 45 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 69 |
| 2007 | £87,000 | £147,576 | 151 |
| 2006 | £84,000 | £145,813 | 144 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 102 |
| 2004 | £67,500 | £122,593 | 119 |
| 2003 | £50,000 | £92,112 | 142 |
| 2002 | £38,800 | £73,002 | 158 |
| 2001 | £35,800 | £68,824 | 123 |
| 2000 | £33,000 | £64,763 | 92 |
| 1999 | £31,000 | £61,781 | 105 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 98 |
| 1997 | £33,600 | £68,907 | 110 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 83 |
| 1995 | £31,500 | £68,476 | 91 |
In cash terms the typical OL10 3 home went from £31,500 in 1995 to £173,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 153%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2011; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2011 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL10 3 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 2011 (+37.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−18.5%). 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) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OL10 3
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.
OL10 3 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 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.
How OL10 3 trades
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL10 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the OL10 district median, OL10 3 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around OL10 3
The local authority for OL10 3 is Rochdale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £829 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £603 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,338 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £173,500 median purchase price, a rent of £829 a month (£9,948 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.
Common questions on OL10 3 (Heywood)
Are property prices falling in OL10 3 (Heywood)?
Is OL10 3 (Heywood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL10 3 (Heywood)?
Where do OL10 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Bury Street, Heywood, OL10 3HH, Heywood
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL10's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL10 1 | £200,500 | 18 |
| OL10 2 | £234,000 | 40 |
| 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 3: 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 3'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 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OL10 3.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual OL10 3 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.
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.