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Heywood market report OL10
The OL10 (Heywood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 12,953 registered sales in OL10 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 123 registered 2026 sales put the OL10 (Heywood) median at £195,000, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £213,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,400 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 12,953 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district OL10 covering Heywood sits in Heywood. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where OL10 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.
The going rate for a home in OL10
The 2026 median for OL10 is £195,000, taken from 123 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £213,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
OL10 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in OL10 have sold for about £2,400 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OL10 32% below the national figure.
The price of a typical OL10 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 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 123 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 421 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 361 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 333 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 413 |
| 2021 | £159,000 | £201,315 | 442 |
| 2020 | £134,500 | £174,517 | 314 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 386 |
| 2018 | £110,000 | £146,632 | 400 |
| 2017 | £118,000 | £160,940 | 414 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 386 |
| 2015 | £133,000 | £187,929 | 467 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 435 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 291 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 268 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 291 |
| 2010 | £97,500 | £152,905 | 238 |
| 2009 | £102,000 | £163,966 | 209 |
| 2008 | £93,500 | £153,266 | 274 |
| 2007 | £99,000 | £167,932 | 588 |
| 2006 | £91,500 | £158,832 | 522 |
| 2005 | £84,000 | £149,486 | 445 |
| 2004 | £77,500 | £140,755 | 563 |
| 2003 | £57,000 | £105,008 | 593 |
| 2002 | £49,000 | £92,193 | 711 |
| 2001 | £39,000 | £74,976 | 532 |
| 2000 | £39,000 | £76,538 | 446 |
| 1999 | £37,200 | £74,138 | 452 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 418 |
| 1997 | £35,800 | £73,419 | 431 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 381 |
| 1995 | £34,800 | £75,650 | 405 |
In cash terms the typical OL10 home went from £34,800 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: 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 11% 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 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 2004 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−13.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL10 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 53% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £348,800 against £129,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, OL10
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 | £348,800 | 20 | 1,917 |
| Semi-detached | £223,000 | 41 | 3,689 |
| Terraced | £162,500 | 55 | 6,905 |
| Flats | £129,000 | 7 | 439 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 316 OL10 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 550 sales a year before the financial crisis and 330 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 trades
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.
Rents around OL10
OL10 falls under Rochdale, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £195,000 median purchase price, a rent of £829 a month (£9,948 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
OL10 (Heywood): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OL10 (Heywood)?
Is OL10 (Heywood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL10 (Heywood)?
Are OL10 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 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
What you could buy in OL10 now
Everything above is what homes in OL10 sold for. The live side of the market holds 22 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the OL10 median sold price.
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.
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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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in OL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
OL10 ranks 9 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.
OL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OL10, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL10 1 | £200,500 | 18 |
| OL10 2 | £234,000 | 40 |
| OL10 3 | £173,500 | 35 |
| OL10 4 | £181,500 | 30 |
How OL10 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 (this report) | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL12 | £195,000 | +18% |
| OL4 | £194,000 | +16% |
| OL6 | £192,500 | +23% |
| OL14 | £185,000 | +19% |
| OL1 | £180,000 | +40% |
| OL8 | £172,500 | +33% |
| OL13 | £171,800 | +15% |
Thinking of selling in OL10? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL10, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL10 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL10 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL10.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL10. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL10 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.