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Bardsley market report OL8 1, Oldham
The OL8 1 (Bardsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,240 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL8 1 (Oldham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical OL8 1 (Oldham) home changed hands for £150,000 in 2026 (median of 19 registered sales, up 67% on five years earlier), with the mean at £146,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,510 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,240 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OL8 1 is one sector of OL8 (Oldham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where OL8 1 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.
OL8 1 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for OL8 1 is £150,000, taken from 19 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £146,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in OL8 1
The last five years of sales put OL8 1 at roughly £1,510 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts OL8 1 47% below the country at large.
OL8 1'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 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £143,500 | £146,932 | 40 |
| 2024 | £120,000 | £127,585 | 41 |
| 2023 | £105,000 | £115,369 | 52 |
| 2022 | £110,000 | £128,988 | 58 |
| 2021 | £90,000 | £113,952 | 66 |
| 2020 | £85,000 | £110,289 | 55 |
| 2019 | £90,000 | £117,968 | 60 |
| 2018 | £80,000 | £106,642 | 63 |
| 2017 | £69,000 | £94,109 | 72 |
| 2016 | £64,600 | £90,376 | 68 |
| 2015 | £65,000 | £91,845 | 69 |
| 2014 | £62,000 | £87,958 | 57 |
| 2013 | £70,000 | £100,723 | 67 |
| 2012 | £89,000 | £130,997 | 81 |
| 2011 | £74,000 | £111,712 | 59 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 61 |
| 2009 | £75,000 | £120,563 | 72 |
| 2008 | £85,500 | £140,153 | 86 |
| 2007 | £82,000 | £139,095 | 137 |
| 2006 | £71,000 | £123,247 | 181 |
| 2005 | £59,000 | £104,996 | 187 |
| 2004 | £39,900 | £72,466 | 205 |
| 2003 | £30,000 | £55,267 | 214 |
| 2002 | £26,000 | £48,919 | 189 |
| 2001 | £23,500 | £45,178 | 176 |
| 2000 | £22,800 | £44,745 | 194 |
| 1999 | £22,000 | £43,845 | 144 |
| 1998 | £25,500 | £51,474 | 133 |
| 1997 | £24,800 | £50,860 | 128 |
| 1996 | £25,000 | £52,724 | 104 |
| 1995 | £22,000 | £47,825 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical OL8 1 home went from £22,000 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 214%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the OL8 1 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 (+47.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−21.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.5% | +2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +10.8% | +5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +8.8% | +5.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OL8 1
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 19 OL8 1 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 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of OL8 1
For renting purposes OL8 1 sits in Oldham. The ONS average private rent there is £917 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £684 a month here against £1,416 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Oldham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £150,000 median purchase price, a rent of £917 a month (£11,004 a year) works out at a 7.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market OL8 1 is
Only 19 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL8 1 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 OL8 district median, OL8 1 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about OL8 1 (Bardsley)
Are property prices falling in OL8 1 (Bardsley)?
Is OL8 1 (Bardsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL8 1 (Bardsley)?
Will OL8 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 67% over five years in cash and up 32% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
OL8's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 84 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL8 district, not just OL8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
12% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 OL8 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in OL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OL area. 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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the OL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
OL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OL8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of OL8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL8 2 | £173,500 | 22 |
| OL8 3 | £202,000 | 33 |
| OL8 4 | £182,200 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full OL8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL8 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in OL8 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL8 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OL8 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL8 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual OL8 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.