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Ashworth market report OL11, Rochdale
The standing OL11 (Ashworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 17,552 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL11 (Rochdale) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OL11 (Rochdale) came in at £217,500, out of 212 registered, up 28% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £250,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,410 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 17,552 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OL11 is the postcode district covering Rochdale (south), Ashworth, Balderstone in Rochdale. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OL11 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 OL11
Take the 212 registered 2026 sales in OL11 and the middle price, the median, is £217,500. The mean lands at £250,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in OL11
Per square metre, OL11 homes have averaged around £2,410 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OL11 sits 24% below the national market.
The price of a typical OL11 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 | £217,500 | £217,500 | 212 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 538 |
| 2024 | £208,000 | £221,147 | 463 |
| 2023 | £187,500 | £206,017 | 469 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 609 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 668 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 465 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 585 |
| 2018 | £127,000 | £169,293 | 571 |
| 2017 | £128,000 | £174,579 | 554 |
| 2016 | £128,000 | £179,073 | 535 |
| 2015 | £128,500 | £181,571 | 471 |
| 2014 | £123,500 | £175,206 | 444 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 403 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 294 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 332 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 327 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 341 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 404 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 784 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 839 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 640 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 706 |
| 2003 | £66,000 | £121,588 | 759 |
| 2002 | £52,000 | £97,838 | 837 |
| 2001 | £57,800 | £111,118 | 785 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 771 |
| 1999 | £48,500 | £96,658 | 665 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 593 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 532 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 491 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 465 |
In cash terms the typical OL11 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £217,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the OL11 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 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2002 (−10.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +8.7% | +6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +7.6% | +3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £362,500 against £115,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, OL11
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 | £362,500 | 63 | 4,100 |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | 71 | 5,419 |
| Terraced | £165,000 | 65 | 7,199 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 13 | 827 |
Sales activity in OL11
Sales per year, counted
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 399 sales completed in OL11. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 765 sales a year before the financial crisis and 458 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 market
Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, OL11 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What homes rent for around OL11
OL11 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.
£829 a month is £9,948 a year, which against the £217,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
OL11 (Ashworth): the questions that come up
Is OL11 (Ashworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL11 (Ashworth)?
Are property prices falling in OL11 (Ashworth)?
Will OL11 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in OL11 now
Everything above is what homes in OL11 sold for. The live side of the market holds 12 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% below the OL11 median sold price.
Set against 399 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 12 homes on the market here are roughly 2 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every OL11 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The OL11 sales calendar
Across the 2,747 sales completed in OL11 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (9.6% of the total) and January the quietest (6.7%). With so little between the busiest and quietest months, OL11 sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 184 | 6.7% |
| February | 187 | 6.8% |
| March | 265 | 9.6% |
| April | 212 | 7.7% |
| May | 224 | 8.2% |
| June | 252 | 9.2% |
| July | 227 | 8.3% |
| August | 219 | 8.0% |
| September | 262 | 9.5% |
| October | 245 | 8.9% |
| November | 211 | 7.7% |
| December | 259 | 9.4% |
Moving up a bedroom in OL: the cost
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 | £235,000 | £260,000 (+11%) | £309,995 (+19%) | £365,000 (+18%) | £463,500 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | £185,000 (+6%) | £217,975 (+18%) | £270,000 (+24%) | £328,750 (+22%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £142,000 (+9%) | £160,000 (+13%) | £185,000 (+16%) | £215,000 (+16%) |
| Flat | £112,500 | £131,500 (+17%) | £180,000 (+37%) | — | — |
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
OL11 ranks 5 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.
Winners and losers across the OL area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside OL11, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL11 1 | £165,000 | 11 |
| OL11 2 | £200,000 | 44 |
| OL11 3 | £185,000 | 49 |
| OL11 4 | £245,000 | 32 |
| OL11 5 | £292,500 | 76 |
How OL11 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 | £297,500 | +3% |
| OL2 | £225,000 | +25% |
| OL15 | £225,000 | +19% |
| OL11 (this report) | £217,500 | +28% |
| OL9 | £210,000 | +25% |
| OL16 | £210,000 | +35% |
| OL4 | £200,000 | +19% |
| OL12 | £200,000 | +21% |
| OL5 | £195,000 | +15% |
| OL10 | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL7 | £193,000 | +29% |
| OL6 | £188,600 | +20% |
| OL1 | £185,000 | +43% |
| OL14 | £179,000 | +15% |
| OL13 | £171,800 | +15% |
| OL8 | £170,000 | +31% |
Selling in OL11? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL11, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL11 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL11 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL11 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL11 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.