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Buckley market report OL12 8, Rochdale
The standing OL12 8 (Buckley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,800 registered sales in OL12 8 (Rochdale) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for OL12 8 (Rochdale) is £180,000, from 46 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £188,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,200 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,800 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OL12 8 is one sector of OL12 (Rochdale): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where OL12 8 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.
OL12 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for OL12 8 is £180,000, taken from 46 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £188,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in OL12 8
By floor space, homes in OL12 8 have sold for about £2,200 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OL12 8 sits 37% below the national market.
OL12 8's median sold price, 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 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 139 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 128 |
| 2023 | £179,300 | £197,007 | 110 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 147 |
| 2021 | £161,000 | £203,847 | 128 |
| 2020 | £134,000 | £173,868 | 123 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 108 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 107 |
| 2017 | £123,000 | £167,760 | 115 |
| 2016 | £116,200 | £162,565 | 136 |
| 2015 | £114,000 | £161,082 | 111 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 121 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 85 |
| 2012 | £91,000 | £133,941 | 64 |
| 2011 | £97,000 | £146,433 | 69 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 67 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 71 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 83 |
| 2007 | £105,600 | £179,127 | 187 |
| 2006 | £99,000 | £171,851 | 166 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 138 |
| 2004 | £76,000 | £138,031 | 169 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 173 |
| 2002 | £51,000 | £95,956 | 201 |
| 2001 | £45,500 | £87,471 | 171 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 119 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 142 |
| 1998 | £37,800 | £76,302 | 112 |
| 1997 | £40,500 | £83,057 | 92 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 72 |
| 1995 | £37,800 | £82,171 | 100 |
In cash terms the typical OL12 8 home went from £37,800 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 119%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2025, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2025 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL12 8 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−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 years (since 2025) | −10.0% | −12.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in OL12 8
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 register shows 46 OL12 8 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 166 sales a year before the financial crisis and 114 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 OL12 8 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL12 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within OL12, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of OL12 8
OL12 8 falls under Rossendale, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £808 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £588 a month here against £1,224 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Rossendale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £180,000 median purchase price, a rent of £808 a month (£9,696 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
What people ask about OL12 8 (Buckley)
Are property prices falling in OL12 8 (Buckley)?
Is OL12 8 (Buckley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL12 8 (Buckley)?
Will OL12 8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
What is for sale in OL12 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 40 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL12 district, not just OL12 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Bower Avenue, Rochdale, Greater Manch...
- Great Howarth, Smallbridge, OL12 9HF, Rochdale
- Harvey Street , Rochdale, Rochdale
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
OL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OL12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OL12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL12 0 | £155,500 | 24 |
| OL12 6 | £197,500 | 32 |
| OL12 7 | £265,000 | 57 |
| 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 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL12 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL12 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL12 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working OL12 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OL12 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL12 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual OL12 8 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.
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.