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Heyside market report OL2 6, Oldham
The standing OL2 6 (Heyside) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,554 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OL2 6 (Oldham) 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 OL2 6 (Oldham) sold for £228,500 in 2026, the median of 62 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier. The mean was £243,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,670 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,554 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OL2 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OL2 (Oldham). 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 OL2 6 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 buyers actually paid in OL2 6
The OL2 6 median stands at £228,500 for 2026, built from 62 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £243,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
OL2 6 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in OL2 6 have sold for about £2,670 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OL2 6 20% below the national figure.
OL2 6'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £228,500 | £228,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £228,000 | £233,452 | 215 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 225 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 193 |
| 2022 | £217,800 | £255,395 | 252 |
| 2021 | £177,500 | £224,738 | 245 |
| 2020 | £152,200 | £197,483 | 174 |
| 2019 | £151,200 | £198,187 | 200 |
| 2018 | £131,500 | £175,292 | 184 |
| 2017 | £142,000 | £193,674 | 209 |
| 2016 | £149,000 | £208,452 | 211 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 163 |
| 2014 | £116,000 | £164,566 | 153 |
| 2013 | £119,800 | £172,380 | 141 |
| 2012 | £112,500 | £165,586 | 113 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 124 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 143 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 119 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 180 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 291 |
| 2006 | £119,000 | £206,569 | 284 |
| 2005 | £116,000 | £206,433 | 247 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 227 |
| 2003 | £73,800 | £135,957 | 252 |
| 2002 | £64,000 | £120,415 | 280 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 254 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 239 |
| 1999 | £50,500 | £100,644 | 266 |
| 1998 | £51,200 | £103,351 | 227 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 249 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 198 |
| 1995 | £46,600 | £101,301 | 234 |
In cash terms the typical OL2 6 home went from £46,600 in 1995 to £228,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 126%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL2 6 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 (+42.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−15.1%). 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) | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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 OL2 6
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 62 sales completed in OL2 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 259 sales a year before the financial crisis and 189 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.
The rental side of OL2 6
The local authority for OL2 6 is Oldham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£917 a month is £11,004 a year, which against the £228,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the OL2 6 market
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.
Asked and answered: OL2 6 (Heyside)
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What happens to OL2 6 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in OL2 now
The live side of the market holds 14 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL2 district, not just OL2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in OL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in OL2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL2 5 | £235,500 | 54 |
| 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 6: 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 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL2 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL2 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL2 6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL2 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL2 6 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.