Oldham house prices

Oldham house prices are built from 87,919 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £90,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +70.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +22.3%.

HM Land Registry87,919 sales8,347 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Oldham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Oldham is £214,995 in 2025; the lowest is £38,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £38,500 to £210,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £85,488, so the real change over the whole record is +145.6% — about +2.94% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +70.7% in cash against +22.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Oldham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Oldham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 21,759 certificates cover Oldham, and their median floor area is 73 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

64,703 of the sales on record are leasehold and 23,216 freehold — 73.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £82,500 and the median freehold sale £118,000 — a gap of +43.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +30.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 6,384 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Oldham, 40.6% of 112,829 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Oldham at £921 a month as of Jun 2026 — £687 for a one-bedroom home and £1,042 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £90,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.28% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

No street-level crime was published for OL2 in Jun 2026 by Greater Manchester. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.

The 2021 census counted 242,088 residents in Oldham across 93,140 households. 60.8% of those households own their home and 38.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a OL2 postcode: 16 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Oldham sits below that national figure — -42.9%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £904 per square metre, across 8,347 of the 87,919 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £95.00 to £3,150,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Oldham sits in Oldham, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Oldham at 6.1 times median local earnings of £33,860 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Oldham

• Rochdale Road1,032 sales
• Oldham Road1,021 sales
• Huddersfield Road864 sales
• Middleton Road819 sales
• Ripponden Road655 sales
• Broadway540 sales
• Ashton Road533 sales
• Hollins Road521 sales
• Shaw Road456 sales
• Turf Lane420 sales
• Burnley Lane391 sales
• High Street377 sales
• Denton Lane354 sales
• Coalshaw Green Road343 sales
• Hillside Avenue315 sales
• London Road292 sales
• Copster Hill Road280 sales
• Manchester Road279 sales
• Heron Street268 sales
• Chew Valley Road258 sales
• Milnrow Road256 sales
• Fields New Road254 sales
• Stamford Road250 sales
• Abbeyhills Road243 sales
• Kelverlow Street240 sales
• Roundthorn Road236 sales
• George Street235 sales
• Garforth Street224 sales
• Belgrave Road220 sales
• Chamber Road219 sales
• Eric Street201 sales
• Victoria Street199 sales
• Balfour Street198 sales
• Lees Road192 sales
• Church Road190 sales
• Stanley Road190 sales
• Grains Road189 sales
• Albert Street182 sales
• Cairnwell Road182 sales
• Hodge Clough Road182 sales
• Frederick Street181 sales
• Wellington Road174 sales
• Wool Road173 sales
• Foxdenton Lane171 sales
• Shaw Hall Bank Road171 sales
• Block Lane168 sales
• Mona Road167 sales
• Queens Road165 sales
• Trent Road165 sales
• Green Lane163 sales
• Redwood163 sales
• Chadderton Park Road158 sales
• New Earth Street158 sales
• Union Street157 sales
• Gainsborough Avenue155 sales
• Mill Street148 sales
• Windsor Road147 sales
• Brewerton Road146 sales
• Buckstones Road145 sales
• Oxford Street145 sales

Postcode districts covering Oldham

• OL2£108,000 median
• OL4£85,000 median
• OL9£85,500 median
• OL8£66,000 median
• OL1£70,000 median
• OL3£177,500 median
• M40£80,000 median

What is the average house price in Oldham?

The median price paid in Oldham across every sale on the register is £90,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Oldham?

87,919 sales are on record for Oldham, the most recent completing on 30 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Oldham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +70.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +22.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Oldham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £214,995, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Oldham?

£904 per square metre, from the 8,347 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 30 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Oldham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.