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Ashworth market report OL11 3, Rochdale
The OL11 3 (Ashworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,465 HM Land Registry entries for OL11 3 (Rochdale), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in OL11 3 (Rochdale) sold for £177,500 in 2026, the median of 44 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier. The mean was £202,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,150 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,465 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OL11 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OL11 (Rochdale). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where OL11 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 OL11 3 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for OL11 3 is £177,500, taken from 44 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £202,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in OL11 3
Per square metre, OL11 3 homes have averaged around £2,150 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OL11 3 runs 38% below it.
OL11 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £177,500 | £177,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £163,500 | £167,410 | 109 |
| 2024 | £197,000 | £209,451 | 103 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 117 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 108 |
| 2021 | £138,000 | £174,726 | 93 |
| 2020 | £101,500 | £131,698 | 73 |
| 2019 | £109,000 | £142,873 | 95 |
| 2018 | £98,000 | £130,636 | 103 |
| 2017 | £90,000 | £122,751 | 85 |
| 2016 | £87,000 | £121,714 | 84 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 83 |
| 2014 | £79,000 | £112,075 | 70 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 83 |
| 2012 | £77,200 | £113,629 | 56 |
| 2011 | £83,000 | £125,298 | 85 |
| 2010 | £92,000 | £144,280 | 52 |
| 2009 | £93,000 | £149,498 | 62 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 73 |
| 2007 | £117,500 | £199,313 | 199 |
| 2006 | £94,900 | £164,734 | 224 |
| 2005 | £82,500 | £146,817 | 111 |
| 2004 | £74,000 | £134,398 | 158 |
| 2003 | £57,500 | £105,929 | 165 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 186 |
| 2001 | £41,000 | £78,820 | 141 |
| 2000 | £45,100 | £88,509 | 180 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 129 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 105 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 111 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 93 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical OL11 3 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £177,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 15% 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 OL11 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 2021 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−19.1%). 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) | +8.6% | +6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.4% | +3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +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 OL11 3
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
OL11 3 recorded 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 171 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How OL11 3 trades
This is a thin market: 44 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. 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. Against the OL11 district median, OL11 3 sits 15% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around OL11 3
The local authority for OL11 3 is Rochdale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £829 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £603 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,338, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £177,500 median purchase price, a rent of £829 a month (£9,948 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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 OL11 3 (Ashworth)
Is OL11 3 (Ashworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL11 3 (Ashworth)?
Are property prices falling in OL11 3 (Ashworth)?
What happens to OL11 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What you could buy in OL11 now
The live side of the market holds 13 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL11 district, not just OL11 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% 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.
"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 OL11 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
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. 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.
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.
Other sectors in OL11
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL11's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL11 1 | £165,000 | 11 |
| OL11 2 | £200,000 | 39 |
| OL11 4 | £250,000 | 25 |
| OL11 5 | £292,500 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full OL11 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL11 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in OL11 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL11 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL11 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL11 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual OL11 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.
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.