Lock Close, Heywood house prices

Lock Close, Heywood house prices are built from 84 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £66,000. Across the 11 years from 1995 to 2006 the median moved +160.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +109.2%.

HM Land Registry84 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Feb 2026

The chart tracks the median Lock Close, Heywood house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2006. 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 Lock Close, Heywood is £83,500 in 2006; the lowest is £28,975 in 1997. Across the full 12-year record the cash median has moved from £32,000 to £83,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,055, so the real change over the whole record is +109.2% — about +6.94% 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: +160.9% in cash against +109.2% 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 Lock Close, Heywood values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

83 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1 freehold — 98.8% 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 £65,000 and the median freehold sale £140,000 — a gap of +115.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 5 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 Rochdale, 47.5% of 106,641 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.1% 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 Rochdale at £836 a month as of Jun 2026 — £608 for a one-bedroom home and £938 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £66,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.20% 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 OL10 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 223,773 residents in Rochdale across 90,222 households. 60.6% of those households own their home and 39.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

12 state and independent schools have a OL10 postcode: 9 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. Lock Close, Heywood sits below that national figure — -58.1%.

Within Heywood the street ranks 295 of 377 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £90,000 (-26.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,500 per square metre, across 19 of the 84 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 £23,500 to £147,500. 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.

Lock Close, Heywood sits in Rochdale, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Rochdale at 6.1 times median local earnings of £33,558 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 nearby

• Manchester Road£109,500 median
• Egerton Street£57,250 median
• Rochdale Road East£94,000 median
• Middleton Road£87,500 median
• Bury New Road£75,000 median
• Bury Old Road£128,000 median
• Gregge Street£75,000 median
• Starkey Street£68,250 median
• Higher Lomax Lane£105,000 median
• Tangmere Avenue£199,995 median
• Agincourt Street£70,000 median
• Queens Park Road£78,000 median
• Newhouse Road£150,000 median
• Pilsworth Road£70,500 median
• Tower Street£45,000 median
• Argyle Street£85,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 45 Lock Close5 sales
• 47 Lock Close4 sales
• 7 Lock Close4 sales
• 8 Lock Close4 sales
• 43 Lock Close4 sales
• 3 Lock Close3 sales
• 28 Lock Close3 sales
• 10 Lock Close3 sales
• 29 Lock Close3 sales
• 30 Lock Close3 sales
• 32 Lock Close3 sales
• 42 Lock Close3 sales
• 49 Lock Close2 sales
• 12 Lock Close2 sales
• 33 Lock Close2 sales
• 9 Lock Close2 sales
• 34 Lock Close2 sales
• 40 Lock Close2 sales
• 44 Lock Close2 sales
• 18 Lock Close2 sales
• 5 Lock Close2 sales
• 2 Lock Close2 sales
• 19 Lock Close2 sales
• 21 Lock Close2 sales

Back to Heywood house prices.

What is the average house price in Lock Close, Heywood?

The median price paid in Lock Close, Heywood across every sale on the register is £66,000. 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 Lock Close, Heywood?

84 sales are on record for Lock Close, Heywood, the most recent completing on 20 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lock Close, Heywood house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +160.9% between 1995 and 2006. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +109.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lock Close, Heywood house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £83,500, set in 2006. 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 Lock Close, Heywood?

£1,500 per square metre, from the 19 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 20 Feb 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, “Lock Close, Heywood 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.