Lee Street, Oldham house prices are built from 127 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 16 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,000. Across the 10 years from 2000 to 2010 the median moved +288.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +210.5%.
Median price paid
£70,000
Change in cash, 2000–2010
+288.9%
Change in real terms
+210.5%
Median per m²
£250
HM Land Registry127 sales13 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Lee Street, Oldham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lee Street, Oldham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2010. 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 | 2 | £24,000 | £53,291 |
| 2000s | 6 | £57,000 | £103,837 |
| 2010s | 1 | £87,500 | £123,375 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lee Street, Oldham is £152,500 in 2007; the lowest is £18,500 in 2001. Across the full 15-year record the cash median has moved from £24,000 to £87,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £52,062, so the real change over the whole record is +168.4% — about +7.31% 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: +288.9% in cash against +210.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 16 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 163 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £156,000 | £159,391 |
| 16 | 26 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 164 | 6 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 20 | 24 May 2024 | Terraced | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 10 | 8 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £333,500 | £360,333 |
| 12 | 17 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 29 | 16 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 18 | 21 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 173 | 15 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £65,000 | £75,308 |
| 11 | 23 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £237,000 | £299,435 |
| 286 | 7 May 2021 | Terraced | £95,000 | £120,027 |
| 302 | 16 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £52,000 | £65,699 |
| 284 | 13 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £95,000 | £123,003 |
| 164 | 2 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £120,000 | £155,372 |
| 35 | 24 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £300,125 | £388,592 |
| 39 | 24 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £307,375 |
| 21 | 24 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £145,000 | £189,657 |
| 11 | 8 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £165,000 | £224,566 |
| 39 | 27 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £228,000 | £310,309 |
| 255 | 27 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £90,000 | £122,490 |
| 35 | 13 Apr 2017 | Terraced | £250,000 | £340,251 |
| 237 | 21 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £90,000 | £125,644 |
| 239 | 8 Aug 2016 | Terraced | £88,000 | £122,851 |
| 169 | 11 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £58,000 | £80,970 |
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 Lee Street, Oldham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Lee Street | £165,000 (2017) | £290,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +2.9% |
| 16 Lee Street | £189,000 (2006) | £260,000 (2025) | +1.7% | -1.2% |
| 164 Lee Street | £100,000 (2006) | £120,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -1.9% |
| 20 Lee Street | £164,000 (2004) | £230,000 (2024) | +1.7% | -1.1% |
| 10 Lee Street | £71,000 (1997) | £333,500 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 12 Lee Street | £95,000 (2002) | £210,000 (2023) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
| 29 Lee Street | £110,500 (2015) | £225,000 (2023) | +9.3% | +5.7% |
| 173 Lee Street | £30,000 (2004) | £65,000 (2022) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 302 Lee Street | £63,000 (2009) | £52,000 (2021) | -1.6% | -3.7% |
| 284 Lee Street | £72,000 (2006) | £95,000 (2020) | +2.0% | -0.3% |
| 35 Lee Street | £250,000 (2017) | £300,125 (2020) | +6.3% | +4.5% |
| 39 Lee Street | £175,000 (2015) | £235,000 (2019) | +7.6% | +5.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lee Street, 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 | 100 | 78.7% | £70,000 | £5,000 – £333,500 |
| Semi-detached | 22 | 17.3% | £60,000 | £18,500 – £320,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 2.4% | £228,000 | £175,000 – £235,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.6% | £42,000 | £42,000 – £75,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lee Street, Oldham
71 of the sales on record are leasehold and 56 freehold — 55.9% 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 £42,000 and the median freehold sale £132,500 — a gap of +215.5%. 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 | 71 | 55.9% | £42,000 |
| Freehold | 56 | 44.1% | £132,500 |
| New build | 1 | 0.8% | £150,000 |
| Existing home | 126 | 99.2% | £70,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +114.3%. 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 12 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 Lee Street, 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 £70,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.79% 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 OL3 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Lee Street, 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.
9 state and independent schools have a OL3 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saddleworth School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,444 |
| Greenfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 347 |
| St Chad's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 269 |
| Holy Trinity CofE Dobcross Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 232 |
| Delph Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 205 |
| Diggle School | Primary | Foundation school | 169 |
| Greenfield St Mary's CofE School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 158 |
| Friezland Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 97 |
| Christ Church CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 47 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Greenfield Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Mossley (Manchester) Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
| Shaw and Crompton (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 5.7 km |
| Shaw and Crompton (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Lee Street, Oldham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lee Street, Oldham sits below that national figure — -55.6%.
Within Oldham the street ranks 1711 of 2309 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £90,000 (-22.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £250 per square metre, across 13 of the 127 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 £5,000 to £333,500. 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.
Lee 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Huddersfield Road£115,000 median
- High Street£165,000 median
- Manchester Road£115,000 median
- Chew Valley Road£124,500 median
- Church Road£166,000 median
- Grains Road£121,000 median
- Wool Road£105,000 median
- Shaw Hall Bank Road£107,000 median
- Mill Street£143,250 median
- Stoneswood Road£147,200 median
- Denshaw Road£173,750 median
- New Street£110,000 median
- Wellmeadow Lane£203,000 median
- Buckley Street£85,750 median
- Chew Brook Drive£139,500 median
- Carr Lane£163,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 314 Lee Street4 sales
- 202 Lee Street4 sales
- 304 Lee Street4 sales
- 11 Lee Street3 sales
- 16 Lee Street3 sales
- 164 Lee Street3 sales
- 10 Lee Street3 sales
- 39 Lee Street3 sales
- 200 – 202 Lee Street3 sales
- 165 Lee Street3 sales
- 266 Lee Street3 sales
- 20 Lee Street2 sales
- 12 Lee Street2 sales
- 29 Lee Street2 sales
- 173 Lee Street2 sales
- 302 Lee Street2 sales
- 284 Lee Street2 sales
- 35 Lee Street2 sales
- 237 Lee Street2 sales
- 169 Lee Street2 sales
- 294 Lee Street2 sales
- 6 Lee Street2 sales
- 5 Lee Street2 sales
- 288 Lee Street2 sales
Back to Oldham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lee Street, Oldham?
The median price paid in Lee Street, Oldham across every sale on the register is £70,000. 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 Lee Street, Oldham?
127 sales are on record for Lee Street, Oldham, the most recent completing on 16 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lee Street, Oldham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +288.9% between 2000 and 2010. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +210.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lee Street, Oldham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £152,500, set in 2007. 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 Lee Street, Oldham?
£250 per square metre, from the 13 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 16 Apr 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, “Lee 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.