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Delph market report OL3 5, Oldham
The standing OL3 5 (Delph) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,762 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL3 5 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OL3 5 (Oldham) came in at £353,000, out of 25 registered, up 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £350,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,390 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,762 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OL3 5 is one sector of OL3 (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 OL3 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.
What a home in OL3 5 sells for
The 2026 median for OL3 5 is £353,000, taken from 25 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £350,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in OL3 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OL3 5 sales average about £3,390 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL3 5 trades 24% above the country as a whole.
OL3 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £353,000 | £353,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £357,500 | £366,049 | 128 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 111 |
| 2023 | £305,000 | £335,121 | 73 |
| 2022 | £326,500 | £382,859 | 111 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 167 |
| 2020 | £272,500 | £353,574 | 108 |
| 2019 | £247,500 | £324,413 | 123 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 123 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 143 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 162 |
| 2015 | £226,200 | £319,621 | 142 |
| 2014 | £196,500 | £278,770 | 116 |
| 2013 | £183,500 | £264,038 | 94 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 87 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 95 |
| 2010 | £226,200 | £354,740 | 80 |
| 2009 | £178,000 | £286,137 | 51 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 67 |
| 2007 | £197,500 | £335,015 | 119 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 137 |
| 2005 | £187,000 | £332,785 | 114 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 148 |
| 2003 | £153,000 | £281,863 | 147 |
| 2002 | £132,500 | £249,298 | 173 |
| 2001 | £102,500 | £197,051 | 126 |
| 2000 | £94,000 | £184,475 | 143 |
| 1999 | £87,500 | £174,383 | 161 |
| 1998 | £74,000 | £149,374 | 140 |
| 1997 | £69,500 | £142,530 | 122 |
| 1996 | £66,200 | £139,613 | 114 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical OL3 5 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £353,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 154%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL3 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 2002 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−18.2%). 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) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The register shows 25 OL3 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 138 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 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 homes rent for around OL3 5
The local authority for OL3 5 is Oldham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £684 a month here against £1,416 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Oldham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £353,000 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
What kind of market OL3 5 is
This is a thin market: 25 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. 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. Within OL3, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about OL3 5 (Delph)
How much did a house sell for in OL3 5 (Delph)?
Are property prices falling in OL3 5 (Delph)?
Is OL3 5 (Delph) a good place to buy a house?
Are OL3 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.
What you could buy in OL3 now
The live side of the market holds 3 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL3 district, not just OL3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every OL3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OL3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 6 | £290,000 | 25 |
| OL3 7 | £282,500 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full OL3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OL3 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL3 5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL3 5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL3 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL3 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
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.