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Burnedge market report OL16 2, Rochdale
The OL16 2 (Burnedge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,041 HM Land Registry entries for OL16 2 (Rochdale), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical OL16 2 (Rochdale) home changed hands for £161,800 in 2026 (median of 30 registered sales, up 53% on five years earlier), with the mean at £191,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,970 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,041 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like OL16 2 is a single group of streets within OL16 (Rochdale), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OL16 2 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 a home in OL16 2 sells for
The 2026 median for OL16 2 is £161,800, taken from 30 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £191,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
OL16 2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OL16 2 sales average about £1,970 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL16 2 trades 43% below the country as a whole.
A typical OL16 2 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 | £161,800 | £161,800 | 30 |
| 2025 | £151,500 | £155,123 | 58 |
| 2024 | £156,500 | £166,392 | 62 |
| 2023 | £138,500 | £152,178 | 58 |
| 2022 | £138,800 | £162,759 | 72 |
| 2021 | £105,800 | £133,956 | 78 |
| 2020 | £100,000 | £129,752 | 69 |
| 2019 | £96,000 | £125,833 | 82 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 109 |
| 2017 | £104,000 | £141,846 | 89 |
| 2016 | £107,000 | £149,694 | 87 |
| 2015 | £108,000 | £152,604 | 74 |
| 2014 | £85,200 | £120,871 | 58 |
| 2013 | £84,500 | £121,587 | 62 |
| 2012 | £80,500 | £118,486 | 48 |
| 2011 | £76,800 | £115,938 | 50 |
| 2010 | £78,200 | £122,638 | 56 |
| 2009 | £86,200 | £138,567 | 54 |
| 2008 | £86,500 | £141,792 | 93 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 165 |
| 2006 | £87,500 | £151,889 | 172 |
| 2005 | £78,000 | £138,809 | 133 |
| 2004 | £62,700 | £113,875 | 122 |
| 2003 | £46,500 | £85,664 | 162 |
| 2002 | £39,000 | £73,378 | 166 |
| 2001 | £36,000 | £69,208 | 180 |
| 2000 | £35,000 | £68,688 | 147 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 117 |
| 1998 | £32,000 | £64,594 | 94 |
| 1997 | £30,200 | £61,934 | 106 |
| 1996 | £27,200 | £57,364 | 90 |
| 1995 | £32,900 | £71,520 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical OL16 2 home went from £32,900 in 1995 to £161,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 126%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL16 2 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 2018 (+58.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−41.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL16 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.9% | +3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 30 sales completed in OL16 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around OL16 2
The local authority for OL16 2 is Rochdale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £161,800 median sold price, £829 a month is £9,948 a year, a gross yield of 6.1%: 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.
How OL16 2 trades
This is a thin market: 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the OL16 district median, OL16 2 sits 23% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on OL16 2 (Burnedge)
How much did a house sell for in OL16 2 (Burnedge)?
Are property prices falling in OL16 2 (Burnedge)?
Is OL16 2 (Burnedge) a good place to buy a house?
Are OL16 2 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 53% over five years in cash and up 21% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in OL16 now
Turning to what is actually available: 21 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL16 district, not just OL16 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Croxton Avenue, Rochdale
- Kiln Lane, Milnrow, Rochdale OL16 3JF, Rochdale
- Albert Royds Street, Rochdale, OL16, 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 OL16 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the OL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OL16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OL16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL16 1 | £163,000 | 2 |
| OL16 3 | £227,500 | 50 |
| OL16 4 | £225,000 | 63 |
| OL16 5 | £164,000 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full OL16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL16 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OL16 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL16 2'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 OL16 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL16 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL16 2 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.