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Heyside market report OL2 7, Oldham
The OL2 7 (Heyside) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,550 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL2 7 (Oldham) 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 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 7 (Oldham) came in at £215,000, out of 67 registered, up 26% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £233,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,550 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OL2 7 is one sector of OL2 (Oldham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where OL2 7 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.
OL2 7 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 67 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL2 7 home went for £215,000. The mean is £233,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in OL2 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OL2 7 sales average about £2,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL2 7 25% below the country at large.
OL2 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £214,500 | £219,629 | 156 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 179 |
| 2023 | £211,000 | £231,837 | 123 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 149 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 192 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 131 |
| 2019 | £136,500 | £178,919 | 175 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 170 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 183 |
| 2016 | £136,500 | £190,965 | 173 |
| 2015 | £121,200 | £171,256 | 172 |
| 2014 | £122,800 | £174,213 | 128 |
| 2013 | £119,500 | £171,949 | 150 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 86 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 107 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 109 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 108 |
| 2008 | £116,000 | £190,148 | 136 |
| 2007 | £128,000 | £217,124 | 221 |
| 2006 | £119,500 | £207,437 | 275 |
| 2005 | £115,500 | £205,543 | 180 |
| 2004 | £97,500 | £177,079 | 217 |
| 2003 | £76,800 | £141,484 | 260 |
| 2002 | £62,700 | £117,970 | 270 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 207 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 197 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 262 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 226 |
| 1997 | £44,400 | £91,055 | 188 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 185 |
| 1995 | £44,700 | £97,171 | 168 |
In cash terms the typical OL2 7 home went from £44,700 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 121%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. 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 7 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 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL2 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in OL2 7
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 67 sales completed in OL2 7. 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 135 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 kind of market OL2 7 is
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of OL2 7
OL2 7 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £684 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,416 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £215,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. 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.
Asked and answered: OL2 7 (Heyside)
Is OL2 7 (Heyside) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL2 7 (Heyside)?
Are property prices falling in OL2 7 (Heyside)?
What happens to OL2 7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in OL2 right 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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OL area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 6 | £228,500 | 62 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in OL2 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL2 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL2 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL2 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working OL2 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OL2 7.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL2 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL2 7 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.