Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 16,308 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL16 (Rochdale) 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.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
OL16 is the postcode district covering Rochdale (east), Burnedge, Firgrove in Rochdale. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OL16 sits
Click the map to open OL16 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£197,800median sold price, 2026
+36%five-year change (cash)
370sales in the last 12 months
5.0%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in OL16 sells for
The 2026 median in OL16 is £197,800, from 108 registered sales; the mean, £209,100, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so OL16 trades 28% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OL16 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£197,800
£197,800
108
2025
£178,000
£178,000
467
2024
£169,500
£176,005
474
2023
£165,000
£177,061
439
2022
£160,000
£183,237
533
2021
£145,000
£179,301
631
2020
£130,000
£164,738
490
2019
£124,000
£158,738
561
2018
£135,000
£175,755
589
2017
£134,500
£179,160
597
2016
£125,000
£170,792
547
2015
£123,000
£169,740
516
2014
£115,000
£159,337
422
2013
£100,600
£141,373
308
2012
£101,000
£145,188
263
2011
£92,000
£135,641
259
2010
£100,000
£153,163
316
2009
£108,000
£169,556
283
2008
£110,000
£176,102
394
2007
£113,200
£187,534
748
2006
£99,000
£167,838
755
2005
£93,000
£161,637
644
2004
£82,700
£146,692
661
2003
£60,000
£107,953
689
2002
£57,000
£104,740
757
2001
£49,000
£92,000
718
2000
£47,500
£91,042
615
1999
£42,800
£83,306
578
1998
£42,500
£83,786
496
1997
£40,500
£81,118
486
1996
£38,000
£78,269
489
1995
£40,000
£84,923
475
In cash terms the typical OL16 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £197,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 133%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
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, 2019 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+11.1%
+11.1%
5 years (since 2021)
+6.4%
+2.0%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.7%
+1.5%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.5%
+0.8%
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.
Transaction volumes
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
OL16 recorded 370 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 404 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.
What homes rent for around OL16
OL16 falls under Rochdale, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £197,800 median sold price, £829 a month is £9,948 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
Will OL16 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 10% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and 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.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OL16, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.