Lees Road, Oldham house prices

Lees Road, Oldham house prices are built from 192 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 4 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £52,000. Across the 10 years from 2006 to 2016 the median moved -15.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -33.8%.

HM Land Registry192 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 4 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median Lees Road, Oldham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2016. 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 Lees Road, Oldham is £105,000 in 2008; the lowest is £19,500 in 1999. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £30,475 to £76,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £67,669, so the real change over the whole record is +56.8% — about +2.16% 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: -15.6% in cash against -33.8% 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 Lees Road, 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. Lees Road, Oldham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

178 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14 freehold — 92.7% 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 £49,988 and the median freehold sale £92,500 — a gap of +85.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 28 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 £52,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 21.25% 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. Lees Road, Oldham sits below that national figure — -67.0%.

Within Oldham the street ranks 1993 of 2309 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £90,000 (-42.2%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £728 per square metre, across 22 of the 192 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 £10,500 to £225,000. 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.

Lees Road, 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
• Balfour Street£47,000 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

• 485 Lees Road6 sales
• 414 Lees Road6 sales
• 471 Lees Road4 sales
• 79 Lees Road4 sales
• 211 Lees Road4 sales
• 469 Lees Road4 sales
• 201 Lees Road4 sales
• 465 Lees Road3 sales
• 339 Lees Road3 sales
• 209 Lees Road3 sales
• 257 Lees Road3 sales
• 487 Lees Road3 sales
• 217 Lees Road3 sales
• 378 Lees Road3 sales
• 360 Lees Road3 sales
• 501 Lees Road3 sales
• 197 Lees Road3 sales
• 412 Lees Road3 sales
• 207 Lees Road2 sales
• 380 Lees Road2 sales
• 239 Lees Road2 sales
• 219 Lees Road2 sales
• 354 Lees Road2 sales
• 306 Lees Road2 sales

Back to Oldham house prices.

What is the average house price in Lees Road, Oldham?

The median price paid in Lees Road, Oldham across every sale on the register is £52,000. 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 Lees Road, Oldham?

192 sales are on record for Lees Road, Oldham, the most recent completing on 4 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lees Road, Oldham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -15.6% between 2006 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -33.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lees Road, Oldham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £105,000, set in 2008. 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 Lees Road, Oldham?

£728 per square metre, from the 22 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 4 Dec 2025. 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, “Lees Road, 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.