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Burnedge market report OL16 4, Rochdale
The standing OL16 4 (Burnedge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,722 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OL16 4 (Rochdale) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in OL16 4 (Rochdale) sold for £225,000 in 2026, the median of 63 registered sales, up 36% on five years earlier. The mean was £244,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,722 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OL16 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OL16 (Rochdale). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where OL16 4 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 4 sells for
63 sales were registered in OL16 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £225,000. The mean works out at £244,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
OL16 4 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put OL16 4 at roughly £2,460 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL16 4 trades 21% below the country as a whole.
A typical OL16 4 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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 63 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 147 |
| 2024 | £208,500 | £221,678 | 140 |
| 2023 | £196,500 | £215,906 | 145 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 164 |
| 2021 | £165,500 | £209,544 | 210 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 170 |
| 2019 | £163,500 | £214,309 | 223 |
| 2018 | £157,500 | £209,950 | 219 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 238 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 231 |
| 2015 | £155,600 | £219,863 | 222 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 178 |
| 2013 | £113,000 | £162,596 | 120 |
| 2012 | £118,000 | £173,681 | 110 |
| 2011 | £94,800 | £143,112 | 76 |
| 2010 | £109,000 | £170,940 | 106 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 79 |
| 2008 | £116,000 | £190,148 | 97 |
| 2007 | £121,000 | £205,250 | 215 |
| 2006 | £116,500 | £202,229 | 217 |
| 2005 | £102,500 | £182,409 | 229 |
| 2004 | £106,000 | £192,517 | 253 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 196 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 243 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 264 |
| 2000 | £58,700 | £115,199 | 208 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 242 |
| 1998 | £54,200 | £109,407 | 196 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 202 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 157 |
| 1995 | £44,500 | £96,736 | 162 |
In cash terms the typical OL16 4 home went from £44,500 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 133%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 4% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL16 4 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 (+41.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.0%). 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) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 63 OL16 4 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 228 sales a year before the financial crisis and 132 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.
What tenants pay around OL16 4
For renting purposes OL16 4 sits in Rochdale. The ONS average private rent there is £829 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £603 a month here against £1,338 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £225,000 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.
Common questions on OL16 4 (Burnedge)
Is OL16 4 (Burnedge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL16 4 (Burnedge)?
Are property prices falling in OL16 4 (Burnedge)?
Will OL16 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in OL16 right now
The live side of the market holds 21 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL16 district, not just OL16 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% 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.
- Croxton Avenue, Rochdale
- Kiln Lane, Milnrow, Rochdale OL16 3JF, Rochdale
- Albert Royds Street, Rochdale, OL16, 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 OL16 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL16 1 | £163,000 | 2 |
| OL16 2 | £161,800 | 30 |
| OL16 3 | £227,500 | 50 |
| 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.
Selling a home in OL16 4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL16 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL16 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL16 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working OL16 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OL16 4.
Dig further
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See every individual OL16 4 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.
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.