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Buckley market report OL12 6, Rochdale
The OL12 6 (Buckley) 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: 4,027 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL12 6 (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: the middle 2026 sale in OL12 6 (Rochdale) came in at £197,500, out of 32 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £230,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,027 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OL12 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OL12 (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 OL12 6 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 buyers actually paid in OL12 6
32 sales were registered in OL12 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £197,500. The mean works out at £230,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in OL12 6
A square metre of OL12 6 home has cost about £2,270 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OL12 6 runs 31% below it.
A typical OL12 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £197,500 | £197,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £196,200 | £200,892 | 81 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 99 |
| 2023 | £174,000 | £191,184 | 84 |
| 2022 | £179,000 | £209,898 | 104 |
| 2021 | £163,000 | £206,379 | 123 |
| 2020 | £152,500 | £197,872 | 100 |
| 2019 | £134,000 | £175,642 | 115 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 110 |
| 2017 | £133,200 | £181,671 | 106 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 111 |
| 2015 | £122,000 | £172,386 | 107 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 91 |
| 2013 | £116,000 | £166,912 | 88 |
| 2012 | £112,000 | £164,850 | 71 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 75 |
| 2010 | £126,000 | £197,600 | 96 |
| 2009 | £121,000 | £194,509 | 76 |
| 2008 | £119,500 | £195,886 | 102 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 179 |
| 2006 | £119,000 | £206,569 | 226 |
| 2005 | £116,200 | £206,789 | 152 |
| 2004 | £94,000 | £170,722 | 171 |
| 2003 | £86,000 | £158,433 | 199 |
| 2002 | £68,000 | £127,941 | 240 |
| 2001 | £58,700 | £112,848 | 178 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 170 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 221 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 153 |
| 1997 | £48,200 | £98,848 | 144 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 117 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical OL12 6 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £197,500 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. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 6% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL12 6 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 2003 (+26.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−7.6%). 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) | +0.7% | −1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
OL12 6 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around OL12 6
OL12 6 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.
Set against the £197,500 median sold price, £829 a month is £9,948 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market OL12 6 is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL12 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
OL12 6 (Buckley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OL12 6 (Buckley)?
Is OL12 6 (Buckley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL12 6 (Buckley)?
Will OL12 6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in OL12 today
Turning to what is actually available: 40 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL12 district, not just OL12 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Bower Avenue, Rochdale, Greater Manch...
- Great Howarth, Smallbridge, OL12 9HF, Rochdale
- Harvey Street , Rochdale, Rochdale
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 OL12 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.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in OL12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL12 0 | £155,500 | 24 |
| OL12 7 | £265,000 | 57 |
| OL12 8 | £180,000 | 46 |
| OL12 9 | £186,200 | 58 |
Zoom out to the full OL12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OL12 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL12 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL12 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL12 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OL12 6.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL12 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL12 6 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.