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Burnedge market report OL16 3, Rochdale
The OL16 3 (Burnedge) 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: 4,314 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL16 3 (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 2026 median for OL16 3 (Rochdale) is £227,500, from 50 registered sales, up 38% on five years earlier; the mean is £226,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,314 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like OL16 3 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 3 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.
OL16 3 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for OL16 3 is £227,500, taken from 50 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £226,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in OL16 3
By floor space, homes in OL16 3 have sold for about £2,380 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, OL16 3 sits 20% below the national market.
OL16 3's median sold price, 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 | £227,500 | £227,500 | 50 |
| 2025 | £202,500 | £207,342 | 132 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 107 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 95 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 130 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 149 |
| 2020 | £164,000 | £212,793 | 112 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 98 |
| 2018 | £133,500 | £177,958 | 108 |
| 2017 | £131,000 | £178,671 | 124 |
| 2016 | £128,800 | £180,192 | 118 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 130 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 98 |
| 2013 | £118,000 | £169,790 | 85 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 67 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 84 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 97 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 113 |
| 2008 | £133,500 | £218,835 | 131 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 231 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 235 |
| 2005 | £113,000 | £201,094 | 161 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 169 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 200 |
| 2002 | £73,500 | £138,290 | 233 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 187 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 180 |
| 1999 | £48,500 | £96,658 | 136 |
| 1998 | £47,600 | £96,084 | 136 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 109 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 163 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 146 |
In cash terms the typical OL16 3 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £227,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 123%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the OL16 3 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 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−12.9%). 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) | +12.3% | +9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in OL16 3
How many homes change hands
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 50 OL16 3 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 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 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 OL16 3 market
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL16 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within OL16, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around OL16 3
The local authority for OL16 3 is Rochdale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £829 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £227,500 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.
OL16 3 (Burnedge): the questions that come up
Is OL16 3 (Burnedge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL16 3 (Burnedge)?
Are property prices falling in OL16 3 (Burnedge)?
Will OL16 3 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% 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 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 3: 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 OL16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL16 1 | £163,000 | 2 |
| OL16 2 | £161,800 | 30 |
| 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 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL16 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL16 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL16 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL16 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL16 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL16 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.