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Bardsley market report OL8 4, Oldham
The OL8 4 (Bardsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,305 HM Land Registry entries for OL8 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in OL8 4 (Oldham) sold for £182,200 in 2026, the median of 20 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier. The mean was £182,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,010 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,305 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like OL8 4 is a single group of streets within OL8 (Oldham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OL8 4 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.
What OL8 4 homes really sell for
In the OL8 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £182,200, from 20 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £182,300, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in OL8 4
By floor space, homes in OL8 4 have sold for about £2,010 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL8 4 trades 36% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OL8 4 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 | £182,200 | £182,200 | 20 |
| 2025 | £178,000 | £182,257 | 75 |
| 2024 | £161,700 | £171,920 | 54 |
| 2023 | £151,500 | £166,462 | 49 |
| 2022 | £148,000 | £173,547 | 80 |
| 2021 | £143,000 | £181,056 | 77 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 64 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 95 |
| 2018 | £112,000 | £149,298 | 107 |
| 2017 | £112,500 | £153,439 | 94 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 77 |
| 2015 | £83,000 | £117,279 | 67 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 63 |
| 2013 | £75,000 | £107,918 | 59 |
| 2012 | £81,000 | £119,222 | 52 |
| 2011 | £81,000 | £122,279 | 51 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 82 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 67 |
| 2008 | £119,000 | £195,066 | 130 |
| 2007 | £106,000 | £179,806 | 187 |
| 2006 | £97,800 | £169,768 | 177 |
| 2005 | £80,500 | £143,258 | 124 |
| 2004 | £68,000 | £123,501 | 175 |
| 2003 | £50,000 | £92,112 | 166 |
| 2002 | £40,400 | £76,012 | 196 |
| 2001 | £36,000 | £69,208 | 159 |
| 2000 | £35,200 | £69,080 | 140 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 140 |
| 1998 | £34,700 | £70,044 | 150 |
| 1997 | £36,200 | £74,239 | 118 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 116 |
| 1995 | £34,400 | £74,780 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical OL8 4 home went from £34,400 in 1995 to £182,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 144%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the OL8 4 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 2004 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.2%). 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) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.0% | +0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.9% | +4.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
OL8 4 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 166 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 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 OL8 4 trades
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL8 4 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.
The rental side of OL8 4
For renting purposes OL8 4 sits in Oldham. The ONS average private rent there is £917 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £182,200 median purchase price, a rent of £917 a month (£11,004 a year) works out at a 6.0% 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.
OL8 4 (Bardsley): the questions that come up
Is OL8 4 (Bardsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL8 4 (Bardsley)?
Are property prices falling in OL8 4 (Bardsley)?
Will OL8 4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in OL8 now
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 4: 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.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every OL8 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.
What another bedroom costs 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are OL8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL8 1 | £150,000 | 19 |
| OL8 2 | £173,500 | 22 |
| OL8 3 | £202,000 | 33 |
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 4? 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 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL8 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL8 4 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 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL8 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL8 4 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.