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Austerlands market report OL4 3, Oldham
The OL4 3 (Austerlands) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,555 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL4 3 (Oldham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in OL4 3 (Oldham) sold for £195,000 in 2026, the median of 43 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £196,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,555 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like OL4 3 is a single group of streets within OL4 (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 OL4 3 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.
OL4 3 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 43 registered 2026 sales in OL4 3 and the middle price, the median, is £195,000. The mean lands at £196,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in OL4 3
By floor space, homes in OL4 3 have sold for about £2,380 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 OL4 3 trades 32% below the country as a whole.
A typical OL4 3 home, priced year by year (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 | 43 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 83 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 66 |
| 2023 | £198,000 | £217,554 | 92 |
| 2022 | £177,000 | £207,553 | 119 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 118 |
| 2020 | £144,200 | £187,102 | 96 |
| 2019 | £130,500 | £171,054 | 96 |
| 2018 | £124,000 | £165,294 | 112 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 119 |
| 2016 | £128,000 | £179,073 | 109 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 90 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 80 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 75 |
| 2012 | £114,000 | £167,794 | 55 |
| 2011 | £99,000 | £149,452 | 68 |
| 2010 | £102,000 | £159,962 | 57 |
| 2009 | £120,500 | £193,705 | 70 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 76 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 187 |
| 2006 | £117,000 | £203,097 | 169 |
| 2005 | £97,200 | £172,977 | 130 |
| 2004 | £99,200 | £180,167 | 200 |
| 2003 | £63,500 | £116,982 | 157 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 193 |
| 2001 | £52,800 | £101,505 | 184 |
| 2000 | £47,800 | £93,808 | 128 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 150 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 121 |
| 1997 | £41,500 | £85,108 | 97 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 125 |
| 1995 | £39,200 | £85,215 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical OL4 3 home went from £39,200 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 129%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL4 3 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 (+56.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−15.4%). 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) | +2.6% | +0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OL4 3
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 43 sales completed in OL4 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 169 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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 OL4 3 market
This is a thin market: 43 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 OL4 3
OL4 3 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.
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.
What people ask about OL4 3 (Austerlands)
Is OL4 3 (Austerlands) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL4 3 (Austerlands)?
Are property prices falling in OL4 3 (Austerlands)?
Where do OL4 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in OL4 now
The live side of the market holds 41 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL4 district, not just OL4 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
8% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Booth Street, Lees, Oldham, Oldham
- The Woods, Grotton, Saddleworth, OL4, Saddleworth
- Stoneleigh Road, Saddleworth, OL4, Saddleworth
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every OL4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OL4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OL4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL4 1 | £125,000 | 21 |
| OL4 2 | £171,000 | 28 |
| OL4 4 | £290,000 | 36 |
| OL4 5 | £190,000 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full OL4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OL4 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL4 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL4 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL4 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every OL4 3 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.