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Ashton-Under-Lyne market report OL6
The standing OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 12,428 registered sales in OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) came in at £192,500, out of 95 registered, up 23% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £210,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,500 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 12,428 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district OL6 covering Ashton-under-Lyne (centre and east) sits in Ashton-Under-Lyne. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where OL6 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 OL6
The 2026 median for OL6 is £192,500, taken from 95 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £210,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in OL6
By floor space, homes in OL6 have sold for about £2,500 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OL6 runs 32% below it.
The price of a typical OL6 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £192,500 | £192,500 | 95 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 329 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 306 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 312 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 368 |
| 2021 | £156,800 | £198,529 | 374 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 233 |
| 2019 | £131,200 | £171,972 | 264 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 361 |
| 2017 | £135,200 | £184,399 | 410 |
| 2016 | £122,000 | £170,679 | 326 |
| 2015 | £122,200 | £172,669 | 350 |
| 2014 | £107,500 | £152,508 | 317 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 213 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 215 |
| 2011 | £94,000 | £141,904 | 205 |
| 2010 | £93,000 | £145,848 | 223 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 231 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 321 |
| 2007 | £112,500 | £190,831 | 639 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 691 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 656 |
| 2004 | £75,700 | £137,486 | 652 |
| 2003 | £56,600 | £104,271 | 568 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 592 |
| 2001 | £44,000 | £84,588 | 535 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 501 |
| 1999 | £39,000 | £77,725 | 520 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 397 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 447 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 379 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 398 |
In cash terms the typical OL6 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £192,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 153%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2025. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL6 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 (+38.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.5%). 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, 52% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £300,000 against £122,500 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, OL6
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 | £300,000 | 13 | 1,495 |
| Semi-detached | £231,000 | 36 | 3,874 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 40 | 6,471 |
| Flats | £122,500 | 6 | 582 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.5% | −14.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 214 sales completed in OL6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 604 sales a year before the financial crisis and 282 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.
What homes rent for around OL6
The local authority for OL6 is Tameside, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £920 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £677 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,389 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Tameside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£920 a month is £11,040 a year, which against the £192,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the OL6 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.
Common questions on OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne)
Are property prices falling in OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne)?
Is OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL6 (Ashton-Under-Lyne)?
Will OL6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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 OL6 right now
Everything above is what homes in OL6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 45 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% above the OL6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, 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
OL6 ranks 8 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 OL6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OL6 6 | £184,000 | 27 |
| OL6 7 | £138,500 | 4 |
| OL6 8 | £245,000 | 27 |
| OL6 9 | £182,500 | 37 |
How OL6 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 | £195,000 | +15% |
| OL10 | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL12 | £195,000 | +18% |
| OL4 | £194,000 | +16% |
| OL6 (this report) | £192,500 | +23% |
| OL14 | £185,000 | +19% |
| OL1 | £180,000 | +40% |
| OL8 | £172,500 | +33% |
| OL13 | £171,800 | +15% |
Selling in OL6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL6, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.