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Austerlands market report OL4 4, Oldham
The standing OL4 4 (Austerlands) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,022 HM Land Registry entries for OL4 4 (Oldham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical OL4 4 (Oldham) home changed hands for £290,000 in 2026 (median of 36 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier), with the mean at £322,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,980 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,022 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like OL4 4 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 4 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.
The going rate for a home in OL4 4
In the OL4 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £290,000, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £322,500, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
OL4 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of OL4 4 sales average about £2,980 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL4 4 2% above the country at large.
The price of a typical OL4 4 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 113 |
| 2024 | £251,800 | £267,715 | 122 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 97 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 131 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 151 |
| 2020 | £248,800 | £322,823 | 108 |
| 2019 | £208,500 | £273,294 | 118 |
| 2018 | £192,500 | £256,606 | 119 |
| 2017 | £173,000 | £235,955 | 137 |
| 2016 | £178,500 | £249,723 | 128 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 118 |
| 2014 | £178,800 | £253,659 | 128 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 106 |
| 2012 | £142,500 | £209,742 | 99 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 65 |
| 2010 | £163,000 | £255,626 | 85 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 72 |
| 2008 | £171,000 | £280,305 | 65 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 146 |
| 2006 | £179,000 | £310,721 | 197 |
| 2005 | £151,000 | £268,719 | 135 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 139 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 165 |
| 2002 | £92,000 | £173,097 | 179 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 161 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 156 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 153 |
| 1998 | £61,400 | £123,940 | 161 |
| 1997 | £68,300 | £140,070 | 145 |
| 1996 | £60,500 | £127,592 | 152 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical OL4 4 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 134%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL4 4 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 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−10.1%). 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) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.3% |
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 4
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.
OL4 4 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 160 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around OL4 4
OL4 4 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £290,000 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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 OL4 4 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL4 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the OL4 district median, OL4 4 sits 49% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: OL4 4 (Austerlands)
How much did a house sell for in OL4 4 (Austerlands)?
Are property prices falling in OL4 4 (Austerlands)?
Is OL4 4 (Austerlands) a good place to buy a house?
Are OL4 4 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
OL4's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 41 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL4 district, not just OL4 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
8% 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.
- Booth Street, Lees, Oldham, Oldham
- The Woods, Grotton, Saddleworth, OL4, Saddleworth
- Stoneleigh Road, Saddleworth, OL4, Saddleworth
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in OL: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OL area. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the OL area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OL4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL4 1 | £125,000 | 21 |
| OL4 2 | £171,000 | 28 |
| OL4 3 | £195,000 | 43 |
| 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.
Selling in OL4 4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL4 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL4 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL4 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL4 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to OL4 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL4 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.