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Ashworth market report OL11 5, Rochdale
The OL11 5 (Ashworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,867 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL11 5 (Rochdale) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 64 registered 2026 sales put the OL11 5 (Rochdale) median at £292,500, up 28% on five years earlier, with a mean of £312,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,780 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,867 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like OL11 5 is a single group of streets within OL11 (Rochdale), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OL11 5 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 5 homes really sell for
Take the 64 registered 2026 sales in OL11 5 and the middle price, the median, is £292,500. The mean lands at £312,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
OL11 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of OL11 5 home has cost about £2,780 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 OL11 5 3% above the country at large.
OL11 5'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £292,500 | £292,500 | 64 |
| 2025 | £248,000 | £253,930 | 195 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 141 |
| 2023 | £238,000 | £261,504 | 133 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 160 |
| 2021 | £229,200 | £290,197 | 216 |
| 2020 | £211,800 | £274,815 | 156 |
| 2019 | £191,100 | £250,486 | 228 |
| 2018 | £177,000 | £235,944 | 214 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 185 |
| 2016 | £162,500 | £227,339 | 210 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 172 |
| 2014 | £162,900 | £231,102 | 174 |
| 2013 | £154,800 | £222,742 | 130 |
| 2012 | £153,400 | £225,786 | 102 |
| 2011 | £167,000 | £252,106 | 107 |
| 2010 | £147,500 | £231,318 | 121 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 143 |
| 2008 | £163,800 | £268,503 | 138 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 220 |
| 2006 | £196,000 | £340,231 | 235 |
| 2005 | £138,800 | £247,008 | 174 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 221 |
| 2003 | £118,500 | £218,306 | 228 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 261 |
| 2001 | £92,200 | £177,250 | 307 |
| 2000 | £85,100 | £167,009 | 261 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 251 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 218 |
| 1997 | £65,500 | £134,327 | 177 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 167 |
| 1995 | £55,500 | £120,648 | 158 |
In cash terms the typical OL11 5 home went from £55,500 in 1995 to £292,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 142%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL11 5 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 (+41.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL11 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +17.9% | +15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.0% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.1% | +2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The register shows 64 OL11 5 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 238 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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.
The shape of the OL11 5 market
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. Within OL11, this sector trades 39% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of OL11 5
The local authority for OL11 5 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.
£829 a month is £9,948 a year, which against the £292,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on OL11 5 (Ashworth)
Are property prices falling in OL11 5 (Ashworth)?
Is OL11 5 (Ashworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL11 5 (Ashworth)?
Are OL11 5 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
OL11's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 13 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL11 district, not just OL11 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OL11
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL11, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL11 1 | £165,000 | 11 |
| OL11 2 | £200,000 | 39 |
| OL11 3 | £177,500 | 44 |
| OL11 4 | £250,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full OL11 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL11 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OL11 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL11 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL11 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL11 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL11 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL11 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual OL11 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.