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Shore market report OL15, Littleborough
The standing OL15 (Shore) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,408 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL15 (Littleborough) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in OL15 (Littleborough) sold for £227,800 in 2026, the median of 84 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier. The mean was £249,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,408 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OL15 is a postcode district covering Littleborough, Shore, Smithybridge in Littleborough. 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 OL15 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.
OL15 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 84 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL15 home went for £227,800. The mean is £249,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in OL15
By floor space, homes in OL15 have sold for about £2,550 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OL15 20% below the national figure.
A typical OL15 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £227,800 | £227,800 | 84 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 251 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 235 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 211 |
| 2022 | £210,500 | £246,835 | 275 |
| 2021 | £188,500 | £238,665 | 330 |
| 2020 | £172,000 | £223,174 | 224 |
| 2019 | £152,000 | £199,236 | 254 |
| 2018 | £149,000 | £198,620 | 275 |
| 2017 | £136,800 | £186,581 | 282 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 253 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 211 |
| 2014 | £121,700 | £172,653 | 198 |
| 2013 | £120,500 | £173,387 | 203 |
| 2012 | £123,000 | £181,041 | 175 |
| 2011 | £114,000 | £172,096 | 161 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 147 |
| 2009 | £127,500 | £204,957 | 141 |
| 2008 | £136,000 | £222,933 | 178 |
| 2007 | £132,300 | £224,418 | 333 |
| 2006 | £124,000 | £215,248 | 400 |
| 2005 | £118,000 | £209,992 | 296 |
| 2004 | £108,000 | £196,149 | 356 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 367 |
| 2002 | £84,000 | £158,045 | 480 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 380 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 377 |
| 1999 | £59,100 | £117,783 | 379 |
| 1998 | £50,500 | £101,938 | 253 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 282 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 219 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 198 |
In cash terms the typical OL15 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £227,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL15 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 2002 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL15 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
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. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £325,000 against £162,500 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, OL15
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 | £375,000 | 13 | 1,661 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 33 | 2,624 |
| Terraced | £180,800 | 34 | 3,709 |
| Flats | £162,500 (2025) | – | 402 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 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 185 OL15 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 374 sales a year before the financial crisis and 211 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.
The rental side of OL15
For renting purposes OL15 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 £227,800 median purchase price, a rent of £829 a month (£9,948 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Reading the OL15 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, OL15 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on OL15 (Shore)
Is OL15 (Shore) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL15 (Shore)?
Are property prices falling in OL15 (Shore)?
Are OL15 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in OL15 now
Everything above is what homes in OL15 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 78 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the OL15 median sold price.
24% 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.
- Alfred Street, Littleborough, OL15 8EE, Littleborough
- Rock Nook, Littleborough, OL15 9QJ, Littleborough
- Ealees Road, Littleborough, OL15 0HQ, Littleborough
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 OL15 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
OL15 ranks 10 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside OL15, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OL15 0 | £225,000 | 23 |
| OL15 8 | £252,500 | 31 |
| OL15 9 | £200,000 | 30 |
How OL15 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 | £295,000 | +2% |
| OL15 (this report) | £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 | £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 OL15? 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 OL15'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OL15.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every OL15 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.
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.