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Chadderton market report OL9, Oldham
The OL9 (Chadderton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 17,006 HM Land Registry entries for OL9 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for OL9 (Oldham) is £215,000, from 155 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier; the mean is £223,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,450 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,006 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
OL9 is the postcode district covering Chadderton, Oldham, Westwood 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.
Where OL9 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 a home in OL9 sells for
Across 155 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) OL9 home went for £215,000. The mean is £223,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in OL9
A square metre of OL9 home has cost about £2,450 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, OL9 sits 25% below the national market.
OL9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 155 |
| 2025 | £197,500 | £202,223 | 419 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 408 |
| 2023 | £188,500 | £207,115 | 375 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 459 |
| 2021 | £167,500 | £212,077 | 601 |
| 2020 | £147,000 | £190,736 | 426 |
| 2019 | £136,000 | £178,263 | 546 |
| 2018 | £118,500 | £157,963 | 468 |
| 2017 | £118,000 | £160,940 | 459 |
| 2016 | £109,600 | £153,331 | 452 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 379 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 393 |
| 2013 | £108,000 | £155,401 | 380 |
| 2012 | £108,000 | £158,963 | 271 |
| 2011 | £103,600 | £156,396 | 306 |
| 2010 | £106,000 | £166,235 | 386 |
| 2009 | £103,800 | £166,859 | 398 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 438 |
| 2007 | £104,700 | £177,600 | 772 |
| 2006 | £102,000 | £177,059 | 852 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 789 |
| 2004 | £71,000 | £128,950 | 797 |
| 2003 | £55,000 | £101,323 | 792 |
| 2002 | £44,600 | £83,915 | 788 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 703 |
| 2000 | £39,000 | £76,538 | 715 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 751 |
| 1998 | £41,700 | £84,174 | 704 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 541 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 609 |
| 1995 | £34,500 | £74,998 | 474 |
In cash terms the typical OL9 home went from £34,500 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 187%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the OL9 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 (+29.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−7.1%). 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) | +8.9% | +6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.0% | +3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £338,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, OL9
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £350,000 | 19 | 1,798 |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | 64 | 6,064 |
| Terraced | £175,000 | 69 | 8,711 |
| Flats | £125,000 (2025) | – | 424 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 333 OL9 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 776 sales a year before the financial crisis and 363 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 kind of market OL9 is
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. OL9 sits 4 of 16 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Rents around OL9
The local authority for OL9 is Oldham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £215,000 median sold price, £917 a month is £11,004 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
Asked and answered: OL9 (Chadderton)
Are property prices falling in OL9 (Chadderton)?
Is OL9 (Chadderton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL9 (Chadderton)?
Will OL9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 28% 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.
On the market in OL9 today
Everything above is what homes in OL9 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 17 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 21% below the OL9 median sold price.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Glebe Street, Oldham, OL9, Oldham
- Glebe Street, Oldham, OL9, Oldham
- Mill Fold Gardens, Chadderton, OL9 9FY, Chadderton
"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 OL9 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.
Moving up a bedroom in OL: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the OL area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
OL9 ranks 5 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.
OL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside OL9, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL9 0 | £244,200 | 40 |
| OL9 6 | £137,500 | 8 |
| OL9 7 | £187,500 | 22 |
| OL9 8 | £185,000 | 37 |
| OL9 9 | £231,500 | 48 |
How OL9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 | £295,000 | +2% |
| OL15 | £227,800 | +21% |
| OL2 | £225,000 | +25% |
| OL9 (this report) | £215,000 | +28% |
| OL11 | £210,000 | +24% |
| OL16 | £210,000 | +35% |
| OL7 | £201,200 | +34% |
| OL5 | £195,000 | +15% |
| OL10 | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL12 | £195,000 | +18% |
| OL4 | £194,000 | +16% |
| OL6 | £192,500 | +23% |
| OL14 | £185,000 | +19% |
| OL1 | £180,000 | +40% |
| OL8 | £172,500 | +33% |
| OL13 | £171,800 | +15% |
Before you sell in OL9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every OL9 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.