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Ashton-Under-Lyne market report OL6 8
The standing OL6 8 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,037 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL6 8 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical OL6 8 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) home changed hands for £245,000 in 2026 (median of 27 registered sales, up 32% on five years earlier), with the mean at £243,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,037 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like OL6 8 is a single group of streets within OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OL6 8 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 OL6 8 sells for
The OL6 8 median stands at £245,000 for 2026, built from 27 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £243,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
OL6 8 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put OL6 8 at roughly £2,480 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OL6 8 sits 14% below the national market.
OL6 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £231,000 | £236,524 | 120 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 105 |
| 2023 | £197,800 | £217,334 | 84 |
| 2022 | £184,000 | £215,761 | 115 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 136 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 102 |
| 2019 | £136,800 | £179,312 | 96 |
| 2018 | £128,000 | £170,626 | 123 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 163 |
| 2016 | £126,500 | £176,975 | 121 |
| 2015 | £122,500 | £173,093 | 156 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 103 |
| 2013 | £114,500 | £164,754 | 90 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 79 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 59 |
| 2010 | £113,800 | £178,468 | 70 |
| 2009 | £119,000 | £191,294 | 60 |
| 2008 | £111,000 | £181,952 | 81 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 197 |
| 2006 | £114,800 | £199,278 | 238 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 226 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 183 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 165 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 206 |
| 2001 | £49,700 | £95,546 | 154 |
| 2000 | £42,500 | £83,406 | 133 |
| 1999 | £46,000 | £91,676 | 147 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 118 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 147 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 109 |
| 1995 | £39,700 | £86,302 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical OL6 8 home went from £39,700 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 184%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the OL6 8 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 2005 (+41.2% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−22.0%). 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) | +6.1% | +3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.8% | +3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 27 OL6 8 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 188 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 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.
The rental side of OL6 8
OL6 8 falls under Tameside, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £920 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £677 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,389, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tameside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £245,000 median sold price, £920 a month is £11,040 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
What kind of market OL6 8 is
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL6 8 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 OL6 district median, OL6 8 sits 27% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on OL6 8 (Ashton-Under-Lyne)
Are property prices falling in OL6 8 (Ashton-Under-Lyne)?
Is OL6 8 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL6 8 (Ashton-Under-Lyne)?
Are OL6 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in OL6 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 45 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL6 district, not just OL6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
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- Mossley Road, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6, Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Mossley Road, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6, Ashton-Under-Lyne
"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 OL6 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in OL6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL6 6 | £184,000 | 27 |
| OL6 7 | £138,500 | 4 |
| OL6 9 | £182,500 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full OL6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in OL6 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL6 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL6 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL6 8 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 OL6 8.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every OL6 8 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.