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Delph market report OL3 7, Oldham
The OL3 7 (Delph) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,652 registered sales in OL3 7 (Oldham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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 7 (Oldham) came in at £282,500, out of 25 registered, down 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £310,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,400 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,652 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
OL3 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OL3 (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 OL3 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.
What buyers actually paid in OL3 7
25 sales were registered in OL3 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £282,500. The mean works out at £310,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
OL3 7 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put OL3 7 at roughly £3,400 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL3 7 1% below the country at large.
The price of a typical OL3 7 home, 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 | £282,500 | £282,500 | 25 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 86 |
| 2024 | £322,500 | £342,884 | 70 |
| 2023 | £281,000 | £308,750 | 60 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 117 |
| 2021 | £292,000 | £369,710 | 126 |
| 2020 | £242,000 | £314,000 | 63 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 87 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 83 |
| 2017 | £232,500 | £317,107 | 92 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 94 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 96 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 125 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 77 |
| 2012 | £181,500 | £267,145 | 58 |
| 2011 | £161,000 | £243,048 | 61 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 56 |
| 2009 | £162,500 | £261,220 | 51 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 67 |
| 2007 | £198,500 | £336,711 | 106 |
| 2006 | £162,000 | £281,211 | 92 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 77 |
| 2004 | £142,500 | £258,808 | 96 |
| 2003 | £118,800 | £218,858 | 112 |
| 2002 | £92,500 | £174,038 | 98 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 100 |
| 2000 | £72,500 | £142,281 | 73 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 97 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 73 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 89 |
| 1996 | £63,800 | £134,551 | 86 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical OL3 7 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £282,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 150%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL3 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 2003 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−26.1%). 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) | −14.4% | −16.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 OL3 7
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.
OL3 7 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 94 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around OL3 7
The local authority for OL3 7 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.
Set against the £282,500 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
Reading the OL3 7 market
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.
Common questions on OL3 7 (Delph)
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What happens to OL3 7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% 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.
On the market in OL3 today
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
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 6 | £290,000 | 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 7: 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 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL3 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL3 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL3 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL3 7 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.
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.