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OL8 local market report Oldham

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 15,394 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL8 (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 data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

OL8 is the postcode district covering Bardsley, Oldham in Oldham. 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.

What a home in OL8 sells for

The 2026 median in OL8 is £159,500, from 78 registered sales; the mean, £167,600, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so OL8 trades 42% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical OL8 home went from £29,000 in 1995 to £159,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2025; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2025 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

Period	Cash, per year	Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)	−7.7%	−7.7%
5 years (since 2021)	+6.8%	+2.3%
10 years (since 2016)	+6.9%	+3.6%
20 years (since 2006)	+3.5%	+0.8%

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.

Transaction volumes

OL8 recorded 324 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 757 sales a year before the financial crisis and 328 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

What homes rent for around OL8

OL8 falls under Oldham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £917 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £684 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,416, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

Set against the £159,500 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 6.9%: 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.

Will OL8 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 12% 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.

Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers

OL8 ranks 1 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.

Inside OL8, street group by street group

Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.

Sector	Median (latest)	Sales that year
OL8 1	£128,800	18
OL8 2	£157,000	16
OL8 3	£171,800	30
OL8 4	£193,500	14

How OL8 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:

District	Median	5-year
OL3	£280,000	-2%
OL15	£220,000	+22%
OL9	£215,000	+34%
OL2	£205,000	+21%
OL16	£197,800	+36%
OL5	£195,000	+18%
OL11	£190,000	+24%
OL4	£185,500	+19%
OL14	£185,000	+23%
OL12	£180,000	+16%
OL7	£179,000	+28%
OL10	£166,500	+17%
OL6	£165,500	+12%
OL1	£160,000	+28%
OL8 (this report)	£159,500	+39%
OL13	£156,000	+16%

Dig further

See every individual OL8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference OL8 price page. 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.

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.