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Heyside market report OL2 8, Oldham
The OL2 8 (Heyside) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,899 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OL2 8 (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 middle 2026 sale in OL2 8 (Oldham) came in at £195,000, out of 33 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £220,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,500 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,899 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 8 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 8 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 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL2 8 home went for £195,000. The mean is £220,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in OL2 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OL2 8 sales average about £2,500 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 8 32% below the country at large.
The price of a typical OL2 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 103 |
| 2024 | £176,000 | £187,124 | 89 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 62 |
| 2022 | £179,300 | £210,250 | 101 |
| 2021 | £186,000 | £235,500 | 127 |
| 2020 | £164,500 | £213,442 | 99 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 93 |
| 2018 | £131,000 | £174,625 | 109 |
| 2017 | £136,000 | £185,490 | 112 |
| 2016 | £132,800 | £185,789 | 112 |
| 2015 | £111,000 | £156,843 | 97 |
| 2014 | £114,000 | £161,729 | 99 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 75 |
| 2012 | £101,000 | £148,659 | 48 |
| 2011 | £108,000 | £163,038 | 73 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 75 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 45 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 102 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 212 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 212 |
| 2005 | £107,500 | £191,307 | 170 |
| 2004 | £89,000 | £161,641 | 154 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 167 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 207 |
| 2001 | £48,200 | £92,662 | 178 |
| 2000 | £52,000 | £102,050 | 173 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 168 |
| 1998 | £41,500 | £83,771 | 153 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 183 |
| 1996 | £41,700 | £87,943 | 162 |
| 1995 | £39,200 | £85,215 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical OL2 8 home went from £39,200 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 129%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL2 8 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 (+36.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−15.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.9% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
OL2 8 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 184 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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.
The shape of the OL2 8 market
This is a thin market: 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within OL2, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around OL2 8
The local authority for OL2 8 is Oldham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £195,000 median purchase price, a rent of £917 a month (£11,004 a year) works out at a 5.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on OL2 8 (Heyside)
Is OL2 8 (Heyside) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL2 8 (Heyside)?
Are property prices falling in OL2 8 (Heyside)?
Are OL2 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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
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 8: 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.
"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
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 5 | £235,500 | 54 |
| OL2 6 | £228,500 | 62 |
| OL2 7 | £215,000 | 67 |
Zoom out to the full OL2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in OL2 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL2 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL2 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL2 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL2 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL2 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL2 8 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.