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Bardsley market report OL8 2, Oldham
The OL8 2 (Bardsley) 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: 3,692 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL8 2 (Oldham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical OL8 2 (Oldham) home changed hands for £173,500 in 2026 (median of 22 registered sales, up 39% on five years earlier), with the mean at £178,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,200 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,692 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OL8 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside OL8 (Oldham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where OL8 2 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 OL8 2
Across 22 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL8 2 home went for £173,500. The mean is £178,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in OL8 2
The last five years of sales put OL8 2 at roughly £2,200 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OL8 2 39% below the national figure.
The price of a typical OL8 2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £173,500 | £173,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 109 |
| 2024 | £177,500 | £188,719 | 90 |
| 2023 | £135,000 | £148,332 | 67 |
| 2022 | £142,000 | £166,511 | 81 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 83 |
| 2020 | £95,000 | £123,264 | 74 |
| 2019 | £95,000 | £124,522 | 105 |
| 2018 | £85,000 | £113,307 | 88 |
| 2017 | £87,200 | £118,932 | 96 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 110 |
| 2015 | £90,000 | £127,170 | 91 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 111 |
| 2013 | £76,000 | £109,356 | 74 |
| 2012 | £69,000 | £101,559 | 58 |
| 2011 | £70,500 | £106,428 | 52 |
| 2010 | £75,000 | £117,619 | 54 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 62 |
| 2008 | £87,000 | £142,611 | 75 |
| 2007 | £83,000 | £140,791 | 196 |
| 2006 | £74,000 | £128,455 | 193 |
| 2005 | £58,000 | £103,217 | 149 |
| 2004 | £49,200 | £89,357 | 248 |
| 2003 | £38,200 | £70,374 | 196 |
| 2002 | £39,800 | £74,883 | 216 |
| 2001 | £43,000 | £82,665 | 168 |
| 2000 | £36,000 | £70,650 | 206 |
| 1999 | £29,500 | £58,792 | 114 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 150 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 167 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 99 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical OL8 2 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £173,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 166%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. 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 OL8 2 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 2021 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−31.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OL8 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.2% | −15.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.8% | +1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.4% | +3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 22 OL8 2 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 197 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.
What homes rent for around OL8 2
OL8 2 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £684 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,416 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Oldham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£917 a month is £11,004 a year, which against the £173,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.3%. 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.
How OL8 2 trades
This is a thin market: 22 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
Asked and answered: OL8 2 (Bardsley)
Is OL8 2 (Bardsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL8 2 (Bardsley)?
Are property prices falling in OL8 2 (Bardsley)?
Where do OL8 2 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 10% 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 OL8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 84 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL8 district, not just OL8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
12% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: OL prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
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 1 | £150,000 | 19 |
| 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.
Selling a home in OL8 2? 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 OL8 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL8 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL8 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OL8 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL8 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL8 2 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.
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.