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Burnedge market report OL16, Rochdale
The OL16 (Burnedge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 15,246 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OL16 (Rochdale) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OL16 (Rochdale) came in at £210,000, out of 159 registered, up 35% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £221,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 15,246 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district OL16 covering Rochdale (east), Burnedge, Firgrove sits in Rochdale. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where OL16 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.
Today's OL16 prices, from the sold record
Across 159 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL16 home went for £210,000. The mean is £221,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in OL16
By floor space, homes in OL16 have sold for about £2,270 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL16 trades 26% below the country as a whole.
OL16's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 159 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 385 |
| 2024 | £186,000 | £197,756 | 346 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 339 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 426 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 492 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 396 |
| 2019 | £131,500 | £172,365 | 450 |
| 2018 | £137,800 | £183,690 | 490 |
| 2017 | £135,200 | £184,399 | 509 |
| 2016 | £127,800 | £178,793 | 488 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 470 |
| 2014 | £118,000 | £167,404 | 376 |
| 2013 | £100,100 | £144,034 | 296 |
| 2012 | £102,500 | £150,867 | 262 |
| 2011 | £92,200 | £139,187 | 258 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 316 |
| 2009 | £108,000 | £173,611 | 283 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 394 |
| 2007 | £113,200 | £192,019 | 748 |
| 2006 | £99,000 | £171,851 | 755 |
| 2005 | £93,000 | £165,503 | 644 |
| 2004 | £82,700 | £150,199 | 661 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 689 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 757 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 718 |
| 2000 | £47,500 | £93,219 | 615 |
| 1999 | £42,800 | £85,298 | 578 |
| 1998 | £42,500 | £85,789 | 496 |
| 1997 | £40,500 | £83,057 | 486 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 489 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 475 |
In cash terms the typical OL16 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 142%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the OL16 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 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £357,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, OL16
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 | £357,000 | 31 | 2,654 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 62 | 5,300 |
| Terraced | £165,000 | 57 | 6,924 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 9 | 358 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.5% | +7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OL16
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
OL16 recorded 327 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 698 sales a year before the financial crisis and 331 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.
What tenants pay around OL16
OL16 falls under Rochdale, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £210,000 median sold price, £829 a month is £9,948 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
What people ask about OL16 (Burnedge)
Are property prices falling in OL16 (Burnedge)?
Is OL16 (Burnedge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL16 (Burnedge)?
Will OL16 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 35% over five years in cash and up 7% 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.
OL16's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in OL16 sold for. The live side of the market holds 21 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% below the OL16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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
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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
OL16 ranks 2 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 OL16, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL16 1 | £163,000 | 2 |
| OL16 2 | £161,800 | 30 |
| OL16 3 | £227,500 | 50 |
| OL16 4 | £225,000 | 63 |
| OL16 5 | £164,000 | 14 |
How OL16 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 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in OL16: 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'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.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual OL16 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.