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Mossley market report OL5, Ashton-Under-Lyne
The OL5 (Mossley) 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: 6,769 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL5 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) 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 OL5 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) sold for £195,000 in 2026, the median of 67 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £212,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,769 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
OL5 is a postcode district covering Mossley, Mossley Cross in Ashton-Under-Lyne. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where OL5 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 a home in OL5 sells for
The 2026 median for OL5 is £195,000, taken from 67 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £212,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in OL5
By floor space, homes in OL5 have sold for about £2,630 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL5 32% below the country at large.
A typical OL5 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 | 67 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 209 |
| 2024 | £182,000 | £193,503 | 165 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 149 |
| 2022 | £189,000 | £221,624 | 192 |
| 2021 | £169,700 | £214,862 | 304 |
| 2020 | £181,500 | £235,500 | 204 |
| 2019 | £146,000 | £191,371 | 181 |
| 2018 | £130,200 | £173,559 | 192 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 203 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 213 |
| 2015 | £133,000 | £187,929 | 223 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 167 |
| 2013 | £119,000 | £171,229 | 126 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 126 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 120 |
| 2010 | £114,000 | £178,781 | 132 |
| 2009 | £134,600 | £216,371 | 157 |
| 2008 | £140,500 | £230,309 | 242 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 398 |
| 2006 | £112,000 | £194,418 | 326 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 175 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 257 |
| 2003 | £75,600 | £139,274 | 278 |
| 2002 | £59,900 | £112,701 | 310 |
| 2001 | £49,400 | £94,969 | 309 |
| 2000 | £43,500 | £85,369 | 271 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 227 |
| 1998 | £39,500 | £79,734 | 217 |
| 1997 | £38,900 | £79,776 | 257 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 195 |
| 1995 | £36,300 | £78,911 | 177 |
In cash terms the typical OL5 home went from £36,300 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL5 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 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−15.3%). 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) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 61% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £359,000 against £143,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, OL5
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 | £359,000 (2025) | – | 567 |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | 10 | 1,630 |
| Terraced | £195,000 | 47 | 4,118 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 6 | 440 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
OL5 recorded 157 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 291 sales a year before the financial crisis and 156 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 OL5 market
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.
What homes rent for around OL5
OL5 falls under Tameside, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £920 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £677 a month here against £1,389 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tameside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £195,000 median sold price, £920 a month is £11,040 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
Asked and answered: OL5 (Mossley)
How much did a house sell for in OL5 (Mossley)?
Are property prices falling in OL5 (Mossley)?
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Where do OL5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in OL5 right now
Everything above is what homes in OL5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 16 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 64% above the OL5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every OL5 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
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
OL5 ranks 14 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.
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.
Inside OL5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL5 0 | £195,000 | 31 |
| OL5 9 | £195,000 | 36 |
How OL5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 | £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 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in OL5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL5'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.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual OL5 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.
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.