Block Lane, Oldham house prices are built from 168 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 12 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £62,750. Across the 16 years from 2009 to 2025 the median moved +129.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +42.5%.
Median price paid
£62,750
Change in cash, 2009–2025
+129.2%
Change in real terms
+42.5%
HM Land Registry168 salesLatest sale 12 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Block Lane, Oldham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Block Lane, Oldham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £28,475 | £63,228 |
| 2000s | 9 | £54,000 | £98,372 |
| 2010s | 2 | £70,000 | £98,700 |
| 2020s | 3 | £117,500 | £120,054 |
The highest yearly median on record for Block Lane, Oldham is £166,750 in 2025; the lowest is £24,250 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £31,500 to £166,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £68,331, so the real change over the whole record is +149.3% — about +3.20% 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: +129.2% in cash against +42.5% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 258 | 12 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 260 | 17 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £126,000 | £128,739 |
| 213 | 22 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £153,500 | £156,837 |
| 112 | 17 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £182,000 | £185,957 |
| 234 | 28 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £99,000 | £101,152 |
| 106 | 14 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 193 | 14 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 120 | 16 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| 191 | 6 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £117,500 | £126,954 |
| 244 | 15 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £62,500 | £72,412 |
| 34 | 28 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £70,000 | £81,101 |
| 139 | 23 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| 212 | 11 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £117,000 | £135,555 |
| 162 | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £123,500 | £156,035 |
| 206 | 26 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £117,500 | £148,454 |
| 147 | 12 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £110,000 | £138,978 |
| 212 | 7 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £75,000 | £94,758 |
| 297 | 25 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £125,500 | £158,562 |
| 176 | 21 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 248 | 19 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £108,000 | £136,452 |
| 295 | 17 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £105,000 | £135,950 |
| 112 | 27 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £115,000 | £148,898 |
| 199 | 28 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £65,000 | £84,160 |
| 189 | 24 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £93,000 | £120,413 |
| 259 | 2 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £97,495 | £126,233 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Block Lane, Oldham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 258 Block Lane | £70,000 (2009) | £150,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| 260 Block Lane | £26,000 (1997) | £126,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 112 Block Lane | £83,000 (2005) | £182,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.0% |
| 234 Block Lane | £26,950 (2000) | £99,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 106 Block Lane | £39,000 (2001) | £180,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.7% |
| 193 Block Lane | £120,000 (2008) | £200,000 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 120 Block Lane | £70,000 (2006) | £150,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 191 Block Lane | £29,950 (1999) | £117,500 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 244 Block Lane | £72,500 (2009) | £62,500 (2022) | -1.1% | -3.8% |
| 34 Block Lane | £79,950 (2007) | £70,000 (2022) | -0.9% | -3.5% |
| 139 Block Lane | £53,500 (2005) | £110,000 (2022) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 212 Block Lane | £75,000 (2021) | £117,000 (2022) | +56.0% | +43.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Block Lane, Oldham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 142 | 84.5% | £58,000 | £5,500 – £182,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 13.7% | £79,950 | £24,600 – £250,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 1.8% | £63,500 | £55,000 – £66,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Block Lane, Oldham
160 of the sales on record are leasehold and 8 freehold — 95.2% 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 £62,250 and the median freehold sale £64,250 — a gap of +3.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 160 | 95.2% | £62,250 |
| Freehold | 8 | 4.8% | £64,250 |
A further 20 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.
Section 07
Living in Block Lane, Oldham
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 486 | 0.4% |
| B | 7,640 | 6.8% |
| C | 37,661 | 33.4% |
| D | 47,287 | 41.9% |
| E | 15,991 | 14.2% |
| F | 2,937 | 2.6% |
| G | 827 | 0.7% |
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 £62,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 17.61% 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.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of OL9, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.
Against the 242,088 residents the 2021 census counted in Oldham, that is 0.00 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Block Lane, Oldham
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.
20 state and independent schools have a OL9 postcode: 15 primary, 4 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Chadderton School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,524 |
| Saint John Henry Newman Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,469 |
| The Radclyffe School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,430 |
| The Brian Clarke Church of England Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 950 |
| Bare Trees Primary School | Primary | Community school | 636 |
| Yew Tree Community School | Primary | Community school | 619 |
| Mills Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 604 |
| Burnley Brow Community School | Primary | Community school | 473 |
| Freehold Community Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 447 |
| Stanley Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 443 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.4 km |
| Freehold (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.5 km |
| Freehold (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 0.5 km |
| Westwood (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
Section 09
How Block Lane, Oldham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Block Lane, Oldham sits below that national figure — -60.2%.
Within Oldham the street ranks 1842 of 2309 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £90,000 (-30.3%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £5,500 to £250,000. 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.
Block Lane, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Middleton Road£87,000 median
- Broadway£131,400 median
- Turf Lane£73,750 median
- Burnley Lane£82,500 median
- Denton Lane£80,000 median
- Coalshaw Green Road£55,000 median
- Fields New Road£72,998 median
- Garforth Street£47,500 median
- Stanley Road£64,950 median
- Cairnwell Road£109,950 median
- Albert Street£69,750 median
- Foxdenton Lane£112,000 median
- Mona Road£142,495 median
- Redwood£88,000 median
- Chadderton Park Road£145,000 median
- Oxford Street£39,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 135 Block Lane5 sales
- 234 Block Lane4 sales
- 295 Block Lane4 sales
- 260 Block Lane3 sales
- 112 Block Lane3 sales
- 120 Block Lane3 sales
- 191 Block Lane3 sales
- 297 Block Lane3 sales
- 17 Block Lane3 sales
- 236 Block Lane3 sales
- 283 Block Lane3 sales
- 237 Block Lane3 sales
- 250 Block Lane3 sales
- 254 Block Lane3 sales
- 211 Block Lane3 sales
- 164 Block Lane3 sales
- 230 Block Lane3 sales
- 277 Block Lane3 sales
- 232 Block Lane3 sales
- 247 Block Lane3 sales
- 263 Block Lane3 sales
- 137 Block Lane3 sales
- 235 Block Lane3 sales
- 258 Block Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Block Lane, Oldham?
The median price paid in Block Lane, Oldham across every sale on the register is £62,750. 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 Block Lane, Oldham?
168 sales are on record for Block Lane, Oldham, the most recent completing on 12 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Block Lane, Oldham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +129.2% between 2009 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +42.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Block Lane, Oldham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £166,750, 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 Block Lane, Oldham?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 12 Mar 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, “Block Lane, 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.