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Delph market report OL3 6, Oldham
The OL3 6 (Delph) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,079 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OL3 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: 25 registered 2026 sales put the OL3 6 (Oldham) median at £290,000, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £334,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,630 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,079 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
OL3 6 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 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.
OL3 6 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 25 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL3 6 home went for £290,000. The mean is £334,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in OL3 6
By floor space, homes in OL3 6 have sold for about £3,630 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL3 6 trades 2% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OL3 6 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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £276,500 | £283,112 | 62 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 63 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 48 |
| 2022 | £242,500 | £284,359 | 64 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 71 |
| 2020 | £242,800 | £315,038 | 62 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 49 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 55 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 64 |
| 2016 | £222,800 | £311,699 | 64 |
| 2015 | £189,500 | £267,764 | 64 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 72 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 51 |
| 2012 | £168,000 | £247,275 | 55 |
| 2011 | £154,000 | £232,481 | 44 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 45 |
| 2009 | £164,000 | £263,631 | 59 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 49 |
| 2007 | £199,400 | £338,238 | 138 |
| 2006 | £176,000 | £305,514 | 88 |
| 2005 | £180,200 | £320,683 | 62 |
| 2004 | £152,500 | £276,970 | 61 |
| 2003 | £131,400 | £242,071 | 78 |
| 2002 | £102,500 | £192,853 | 99 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 70 |
| 2000 | £81,700 | £160,336 | 72 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 69 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 76 |
| 1997 | £70,500 | £144,581 | 72 |
| 1996 | £69,500 | £146,572 | 76 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical OL3 6 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 105%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL3 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 2003 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−21.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 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
The year-by-year sales count
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 6 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 84 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 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.
How OL3 6 trades
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.
The rental side of OL3 6
For renting purposes OL3 6 sits in Oldham. The ONS average private rent there is £917 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £290,000 median purchase price, a rent of £917 a month (£11,004 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
OL3 6 (Delph): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in OL3 6 (Delph)?
Is OL3 6 (Delph) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL3 6 (Delph)?
What happens to OL3 6 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in OL3 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL3 district, not just OL3 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% 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.
See every OL3 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. 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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OL3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 5 | £353,000 | 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.
Before you sell in OL3 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 OL3 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL3 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL3 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.