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Bardsley market report OL8 3, Oldham
The standing OL8 3 (Bardsley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,027 HM Land Registry entries for OL8 3 (Oldham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical OL8 3 (Oldham) home changed hands for £202,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, up 49% on five years earlier), with the mean at £204,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,220 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,027 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
OL8 3 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 3 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 3
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL8 3 home went for £202,000. The mean is £204,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in OL8 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in OL8 3 costs about £2,220 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, OL8 3 runs 29% below it.
A typical OL8 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £202,000 | £202,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 90 |
| 2024 | £187,500 | £199,351 | 68 |
| 2023 | £158,500 | £174,153 | 70 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 105 |
| 2021 | £135,200 | £171,181 | 130 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 110 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 124 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 140 |
| 2017 | £115,000 | £156,848 | 173 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 113 |
| 2015 | £80,000 | £113,040 | 90 |
| 2014 | £81,000 | £114,913 | 73 |
| 2013 | £84,200 | £121,155 | 62 |
| 2012 | £75,000 | £110,391 | 51 |
| 2011 | £73,000 | £110,202 | 65 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 58 |
| 2009 | £91,000 | £146,283 | 67 |
| 2008 | £88,000 | £144,251 | 100 |
| 2007 | £91,000 | £154,361 | 200 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 217 |
| 2005 | £64,000 | £113,894 | 200 |
| 2004 | £52,500 | £95,350 | 265 |
| 2003 | £49,200 | £90,638 | 266 |
| 2002 | £58,000 | £109,126 | 240 |
| 2001 | £30,000 | £57,673 | 153 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 137 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 171 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 111 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 135 |
| 1996 | £26,500 | £55,887 | 105 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical OL8 3 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £202,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 210%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the OL8 3 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 2002 (+93.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2003 (−15.2%). 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) | +1.0% | −1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.4% | +3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.3% | +3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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 3
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in OL8 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 210 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
How OL8 3 trades
This is a thin market: 33 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. 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. Within OL8, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of OL8 3
OL8 3 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £202,000 median purchase price, a rent of £917 a month (£11,004 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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 people ask about OL8 3 (Bardsley)
How much did a house sell for in OL8 3 (Bardsley)?
Are property prices falling in OL8 3 (Bardsley)?
Is OL8 3 (Bardsley) a good place to buy a house?
Are OL8 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 49% over five years in cash and up 18% 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 OL8 today
The live side of the market holds 84 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL8 district, not just OL8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
12% 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 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
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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the OL area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in OL8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL8 1 | £150,000 | 19 |
| OL8 2 | £173,500 | 22 |
| 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.
Before you sell in OL8 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL8 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL8 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL8 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim OL8 3.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every OL8 3 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.