Balfour Street, Oldham house prices

Balfour Street, Oldham house prices are built from 198 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 28 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £47,000. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +50.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +24.0%.

HM Land Registry198 sales38 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Jan 2026

The chart tracks the median Balfour Street, Oldham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. 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 Balfour Street, Oldham is £94,000 in 2021; the lowest is £12,750 in 2002. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £22,500 to £94,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £48,808, so the real change over the whole record is +143.3% — about +3.62% 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: +50.4% in cash against +24.0% 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 Balfour Street, 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. Balfour Street, Oldham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

193 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5 freehold — 97.5% 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 £47,000 and the median freehold sale £48,000 — a gap of +2.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 17 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 £47,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 23.51% 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 OL4 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.

18 state and independent schools have a OL4 postcode: 16 primary, 2 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. Balfour Street, Oldham sits below that national figure — -70.2%.

Within Oldham the street ranks 2059 of 2309 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £90,000 (-47.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £634 per square metre, across 38 of the 198 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 £10,000 to £129,000. 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.

Balfour Street, 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 nearby

• Ripponden Road£74,500 median
• Hillside Avenue£82,950 median
• Stamford Road£109,250 median
• Abbeyhills Road£41,166 median
• Kelverlow Street£39,500 median
• Roundthorn Road£54,250 median
• Eric Street£49,000 median
• Lees Road£52,000 median
• New Earth Street£46,814 median
• Brewerton Road£47,250 median
• Hollinhall Street£59,998 median
• Huxley Street£42,000 median
• Den Lane£136,250 median
• Cranbrook Street£31,850 median
• Spring Lane£96,000 median
• Turner Street£68,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 17 Balfour Street6 sales
• 18 Balfour Street6 sales
• 37 Balfour Street6 sales
• 108 Balfour Street6 sales
• 41 Balfour Street5 sales
• 8 Balfour Street5 sales
• 40 Balfour Street5 sales
• 125 Balfour Street4 sales
• 133 Balfour Street4 sales
• 53 Balfour Street4 sales
• 152 Balfour Street4 sales
• 63 Balfour Street4 sales
• 159 Balfour Street4 sales
• 111 Balfour Street3 sales
• 130 Balfour Street3 sales
• 175 Balfour Street3 sales
• 122 Balfour Street3 sales
• 43 Balfour Street3 sales
• 33 Balfour Street3 sales
• 153 Balfour Street3 sales
• 181 Balfour Street3 sales
• 59 Balfour Street3 sales
• 116 Balfour Street3 sales
• 131 Balfour Street3 sales

Back to Oldham house prices.

What is the average house price in Balfour Street, Oldham?

The median price paid in Balfour Street, Oldham across every sale on the register is £47,000. 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 Balfour Street, Oldham?

198 sales are on record for Balfour Street, Oldham, the most recent completing on 28 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Balfour Street, Oldham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +50.4% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +24.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Balfour Street, Oldham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £94,000, set in 2021. 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 Balfour Street, Oldham?

£634 per square metre, from the 38 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 28 Jan 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, “Balfour Street, 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.