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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Rochdale | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £855 | £10,260 |
| 1 bedroom | £622 | £7,464 |
| 2 bedrooms | £799 | £9,588 |
| 3 bedrooms | £960 | £11,520 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £1,377 | £16,524 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£221k): a gross yield of about 4.6%.
| Milnrow East & Newhey | Rochdale | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 17% | 19% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 11% | 14% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 1% | 8% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 9 | 66 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Rochdale has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| Milnrow East & Newhey | Rochdale | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| Milnrow East & Newhey | Rochdale | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | +2% | +5% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | 0% | +2% | +3% |
| Housing pressure vs region | 0.6 | 0.5 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Middleton Town & Rhodes | 5.6 | £199k | +85% | 19% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Rochdale & Mandale Park | 5.2 | £141k | +81% | 26% | 0% |
| Middleton East | 5.1 | £199k | +100% | 21% | 1% |
| Deeplish | 5.0 | £152k | +88% | 32% | 0% |
| Wardleworth & Newbold Brow | 4.8 | £137k | +79% | 31% | 0% |
| North Middleton & Stakehill | 4.6 | £242k | +96% | 17% | 0% |
| Langley & Wood Side | 4.4 | £236k | +90% | 13% | 0% |
| Hurstead & Smallbridge | 4.3 | £165k | +92% | 15% | 0% |
| Heywood Town | 4.1 | £178k | +80% | 23% | 0% |
| Spotland Bridge | 3.9 | £185k | +66% | 22% | 0% |
| Kingsway | 3.9 | £187k | +78% | 20% | 0% |
| Littleborough North & Calderbook | 3.8 | £212k | +71% | 23% | 0% |
| Castleton & Trub | 3.8 | £197k | +76% | 21% | 0% |
| Heywood Heap Bridge & Darnhill | 3.6 | £210k | +76% | 12% | 0% |
| Healey, Syke & Shawclough | 3.5 | £214k | +73% | 18% | 0% |
| Alkrington | 3.5 | £347k | +88% | 9% | 0% |
| Balderstone & Kirkholt | 3.5 | £215k | +75% | 12% | 0% |
| Milnrow East & Newhey (this one) | 3.4 | £221k | +79% | 17% | 0% |
| Milnrow West | 3.3 | £193k | +73% | 18% | 0% |
| Littleborough West & Wardle | 2.9 | £273k | +70% | 13% | 0% |
| Hooley Bridge & Norden West | 2.9 | £246k | +61% | 14% | 2% |
| Littleborough South & Smithy Bridge | 2.7 | £259k | +70% | 15% | 0% |
| Heywood Hopwood & Siddal Moor | 2.5 | £251k | +77% | 19% | 0% |
| Norden East & Bagslate Moor | 2.3 | £307k | +65% | 13% | 0% |
| Springfield Park | 2.3 | £340k | +64% | 11% | 0% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Oldham and Rochdale rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £345 · 1 bed £475 · 2 beds £578 · 3 beds £695 · 4 beds £950. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 4.56% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 3.87% · 3-bed vs semis 3.97%.