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Guide Bridge market report OL7, Ashton-Under-Lyne
The OL7 (Guide Bridge) 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: 7,263 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL7 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the OL7 (Ashton-Under-Lyne) median at £201,200, up 34% on five years earlier, with a mean of £209,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,400 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,263 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
OL7 is the postcode district covering Ashton-under-Lyne (west), Guide Bridge in Ashton-Under-Lyne. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OL7 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 OL7
Across 48 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL7 home went for £201,200. The mean is £209,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in OL7
By floor space, homes in OL7 have sold for about £2,400 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 OL7 29% below the country at large.
OL7's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £201,200 | £201,200 | 48 |
| 2025 | £199,000 | £203,759 | 161 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 167 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 152 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 163 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 236 |
| 2020 | £129,200 | £167,640 | 142 |
| 2019 | £124,200 | £162,796 | 166 |
| 2018 | £117,700 | £156,896 | 181 |
| 2017 | £116,000 | £158,212 | 178 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 209 |
| 2015 | £93,800 | £132,539 | 178 |
| 2014 | £98,000 | £139,030 | 159 |
| 2013 | £83,000 | £119,429 | 137 |
| 2012 | £86,200 | £126,876 | 136 |
| 2011 | £98,500 | £148,697 | 125 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 117 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 111 |
| 2008 | £112,500 | £184,411 | 188 |
| 2007 | £103,000 | £174,717 | 339 |
| 2006 | £108,000 | £187,474 | 489 |
| 2005 | £95,500 | £169,952 | 343 |
| 2004 | £72,200 | £131,129 | 344 |
| 2003 | £57,500 | £105,929 | 374 |
| 2002 | £42,500 | £79,963 | 373 |
| 2001 | £36,500 | £70,169 | 316 |
| 2000 | £35,500 | £69,669 | 297 |
| 1999 | £36,700 | £73,141 | 262 |
| 1998 | £33,500 | £67,622 | 274 |
| 1997 | £35,700 | £73,213 | 262 |
| 1996 | £35,500 | £74,868 | 295 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 341 |
In cash terms the typical OL7 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £201,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the OL7 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 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−14.3%). 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, 57% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £300,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, OL7
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 | £275,000 | 5 | 567 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 15 | 2,085 |
| Terraced | £177,500 | 26 | 4,160 |
| Flats | £110,000 (2025) | – | 426 |
What OL7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.1% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.0% | +1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.2% | +3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in OL7
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 119 sales completed in OL7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 359 sales a year before the financial crisis and 138 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.
How OL7 trades
Only 119 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL7 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.
Rents around OL7
For renting purposes OL7 sits in Tameside. The ONS average private rent there is £920 a month (May 2026). 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 £201,200 median sold price, £920 a month is £11,040 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
Common questions on OL7 (Guide Bridge)
Is OL7 (Guide Bridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL7 (Guide Bridge)?
Are property prices falling in OL7 (Guide Bridge)?
What happens to OL7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 34% over five years in cash and up 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in OL7 today
Everything above is what homes in OL7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 25 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the OL7 median sold price.
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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every OL7 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in OL: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
OL7 ranks 3 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 OL7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL7 0 | £186,000 | 9 |
| OL7 9 | £205,000 | 39 |
How OL7 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 (this report) | £201,200 | +34% |
| OL5 | £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% |
Selling in OL7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL7, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL7 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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The live map plots every individual OL7 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.