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Buckley market report OL12, Rochdale
The standing OL12 (Buckley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 20,279 registered sales in OL12 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical OL12 (Rochdale) home changed hands for £195,000 in 2026 (median of 217 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £219,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,310 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,279 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OL12 is a postcode district covering Rochdale (north), Buckley, Facit in Rochdale. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where OL12 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
The 2026 median for OL12 is £195,000, taken from 217 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £219,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in OL12
By floor space, homes in OL12 have sold for about £2,310 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL12 32% below the country at large.
A typical OL12 home, priced year by year (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 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 217 |
| 2025 | £201,500 | £206,318 | 518 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 539 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 492 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 590 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 653 |
| 2020 | £138,500 | £179,707 | 535 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 583 |
| 2018 | £132,500 | £176,625 | 608 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 612 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 642 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 609 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 574 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 484 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 379 |
| 2011 | £102,000 | £153,981 | 371 |
| 2010 | £109,000 | £170,940 | 383 |
| 2009 | £102,500 | £164,770 | 347 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 441 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 983 |
| 2006 | £107,000 | £185,738 | 975 |
| 2005 | £101,500 | £180,629 | 808 |
| 2004 | £88,000 | £159,825 | 870 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 930 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 1,005 |
| 2001 | £51,500 | £99,006 | 895 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 823 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 862 |
| 1998 | £43,300 | £87,404 | 730 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 647 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 572 |
| 1995 | £42,600 | £92,606 | 602 |
In cash terms the typical OL12 home went from £42,600 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 111%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL12 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 (+25.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.2% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £314,800 against £132,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, OL12
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 | £314,800 | 52 | 4,715 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 61 | 5,738 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 96 | 8,921 |
| Flats | £132,000 | 8 | 905 |
How many homes change hands in OL12
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 439 OL12 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 911 sales a year before the financial crisis and 471 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
For renting purposes OL12 sits in Rochdale. The ONS average private rent there is £829 a month (May 2026). 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 £195,000 median purchase price, a rent of £829 a month (£9,948 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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 OL12 (Buckley)
How much did a house sell for in OL12 (Buckley)?
Are property prices falling in OL12 (Buckley)?
Is OL12 (Buckley) a good place to buy a house?
Will OL12 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
OL12's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in OL12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 40 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 23% above the OL12 median sold price.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in OL: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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
OL12 ranks 12 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 OL12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OL12 0 | £155,500 | 24 |
| OL12 6 | £197,500 | 32 |
| OL12 7 | £265,000 | 57 |
| OL12 8 | £180,000 | 46 |
| OL12 9 | £186,200 | 58 |
How OL12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 | £295,000 | +2% |
| OL15 | £227,800 | +21% |
| OL2 | £225,000 | +25% |
| OL9 | £215,000 | +28% |
| OL11 | £210,000 | +24% |
| OL16 | £210,000 | +35% |
| OL7 | £201,200 | +34% |
| OL5 | £195,000 | +15% |
| OL10 | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL12 (this report) | £195,000 | +18% |
| OL4 | £194,000 | +16% |
| OL6 | £192,500 | +23% |
| OL14 | £185,000 | +19% |
| OL1 | £180,000 | +40% |
| OL8 | £172,500 | +33% |
| OL13 | £171,800 | +15% |
Selling in OL12? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL12's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL12.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL12. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL12 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.