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Delph market report OL3, Oldham
The standing OL3 (Delph) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,493 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL3 (Oldham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in OL3 (Oldham) sold for £295,000 in 2026, the median of 75 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £331,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,493 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OL3 is the postcode district covering Delph, Denshaw, Diggle in Oldham. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OL3 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
Across 75 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL3 home went for £295,000. The mean is £331,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
OL3 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put OL3 at roughly £3,450 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL3 trades 4% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OL3 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 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 75 |
| 2025 | £331,000 | £338,915 | 276 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 244 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 181 |
| 2022 | £303,800 | £356,240 | 292 |
| 2021 | £289,800 | £366,924 | 364 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 233 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 259 |
| 2018 | £242,000 | £322,591 | 261 |
| 2017 | £226,200 | £308,514 | 299 |
| 2016 | £235,600 | £329,607 | 320 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 302 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 313 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 222 |
| 2012 | £186,200 | £274,063 | 200 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 200 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 181 |
| 2009 | £167,500 | £269,258 | 161 |
| 2008 | £206,500 | £338,497 | 183 |
| 2007 | £198,700 | £337,051 | 363 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 317 |
| 2005 | £182,500 | £324,776 | 253 |
| 2004 | £158,000 | £286,959 | 305 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 337 |
| 2002 | £107,500 | £202,260 | 370 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 296 |
| 2000 | £85,800 | £168,383 | 288 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 327 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 289 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 283 |
| 1996 | £68,400 | £144,253 | 276 |
| 1995 | £61,000 | £132,605 | 223 |
In cash terms the typical OL3 home went from £61,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 122%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL3 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 (+25.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £470,000 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, OL3
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £470,000 | 16 | 2,072 |
| Semi-detached | £356,200 | 16 | 2,145 |
| Terraced | £265,000 | 30 | 2,854 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 13 | 1,422 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.9% | −13.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in OL3
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 191 OL3 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 316 sales a year before the financial crisis and 214 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.
Reading the OL3 market
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. OL3 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
What tenants pay around OL3
OL3 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £295,000 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Common questions on OL3 (Delph)
Is OL3 (Delph) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL3 (Delph)?
Are property prices falling in OL3 (Delph)?
Are OL3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
OL3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in OL3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 3 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% above the OL3 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every OL3 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in OL
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
OL3 ranks 16 of 16 in the OL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
OL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OL3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 5 | £353,000 | 25 |
| OL3 6 | £290,000 | 25 |
| OL3 7 | £282,500 | 25 |
How OL3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 (this report) | £295,000 | +2% |
| OL15 | £227,800 | +21% |
| OL2 | £225,000 | +25% |
| OL9 | £215,000 | +28% |
| OL11 | £210,000 | +24% |
| OL16 | £210,000 | +35% |
| OL7 | £201,200 | +34% |
| OL5 | £195,000 | +15% |
| OL10 | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL12 | £195,000 | +18% |
| OL4 | £194,000 | +16% |
| OL6 | £192,500 | +23% |
| OL14 | £185,000 | +19% |
| OL1 | £180,000 | +40% |
| OL8 | £172,500 | +33% |
| OL13 | £171,800 | +15% |
Selling a home in OL3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OL3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL3 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.