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Heyside market report OL2 5, Oldham
The OL2 5 (Heyside) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,314 registered sales in OL2 5 (Oldham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OL2 5 (Oldham) came in at £235,500, out of 54 registered, up 27% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £253,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,620 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,314 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like OL2 5 is a single group of streets within OL2 (Oldham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OL2 5 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.
The going rate for a home in OL2 5
54 sales were registered in OL2 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £235,500. The mean works out at £253,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in OL2 5
By floor space, homes in OL2 5 have sold for about £2,620 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, OL2 5 sits 17% below the national market.
The price of a typical OL2 5 home, 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 | £235,500 | £235,500 | 54 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 148 |
| 2024 | £218,000 | £231,779 | 125 |
| 2023 | £214,600 | £235,793 | 114 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 116 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 159 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 122 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 150 |
| 2018 | £144,000 | £191,955 | 146 |
| 2017 | £142,000 | £193,674 | 161 |
| 2016 | £139,000 | £194,462 | 135 |
| 2015 | £128,000 | £180,864 | 113 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 119 |
| 2013 | £117,800 | £169,502 | 96 |
| 2012 | £121,500 | £178,833 | 74 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 81 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 83 |
| 2009 | £138,000 | £221,836 | 67 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 131 |
| 2007 | £148,500 | £251,897 | 171 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 203 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 129 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 173 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 172 |
| 2002 | £79,500 | £149,579 | 177 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 162 |
| 2000 | £54,500 | £106,956 | 154 |
| 1999 | £55,500 | £110,609 | 151 |
| 1998 | £55,500 | £112,031 | 169 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 200 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 151 |
| 1995 | £49,600 | £107,823 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical OL2 5 home went from £49,600 in 1995 to £235,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 118%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL2 5 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 (+47.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL2 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | +0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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 OL2 5
Sales per year, counted
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.
OL2 5 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 168 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 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.
How OL2 5 trades
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL2 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around OL2 5
For renting purposes OL2 5 sits in Oldham. The ONS average private rent there is £917 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £684 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,416, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Oldham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £235,500 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 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.
OL2 5 (Heyside): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OL2 5 (Heyside)?
Is OL2 5 (Heyside) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL2 5 (Heyside)?
Will OL2 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
OL2's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 14 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL2 district, not just OL2 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every OL2 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in OL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OL2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OL2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL2 6 | £228,500 | 62 |
| OL2 7 | £215,000 | 67 |
| OL2 8 | £195,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full OL2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OL2 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL2 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL2 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL2 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OL2 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL2 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL2 5 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.