Wool Road, Oldham house prices

Wool Road, Oldham house prices are built from 173 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £105,000. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +59.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.3%.

HM Land Registry173 sales28 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Apr 2026

The chart tracks the median Wool Road, Oldham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 Wool Road, Oldham is £211,750 in 2016; the lowest is £44,500 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £57,750 to £195,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £128,232, so the real change over the whole record is +60.0% — about +1.63% 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: +59.8% in cash against -3.3% 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 Wool 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. Wool Road, Oldham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

146 of the sales on record are leasehold and 27 freehold — 84.4% 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 £97,750 and the median freehold sale £180,000 — a gap of +84.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -57.0%. 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 7 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 £105,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.53% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wool Road, Oldham sits below that national figure — -33.3%.

Within Oldham the street ranks 1128 of 2309 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £90,000 (+16.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,994 per square metre, across 28 of the 173 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 £39,000 to £395,000. 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.

Wool 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

• 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
• Shaw Hall Bank Road£107,000 median
• Mill Street£143,250 median
• Lee Street£70,000 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

• APARTMENT 32, the WHARF Wool Road8 sales
• APARTMENT 41, the WHARF Wool Road7 sales
• APARTMENT 16, the WHARF Wool Road6 sales
• APARTMENT 34, the WHARF Wool Road5 sales
• APARTMENT 21, the WHARF Wool Road5 sales
• APARTMENT 37, the WHARF Wool Road5 sales
• APARTMENT 40, the WHARF Wool Road5 sales
• APARTMENT 15, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 48, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 11, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 52, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 9, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 25, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 13, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 19, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 3, the WHARF Wool Road4 sales
• 29 Wool Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 44, the WHARF Wool Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 43, the WHARF Wool Road3 sales
• 43 Wool Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 24, the WHARF Wool Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 10, the WHARF Wool Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 5, the WHARF Wool Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 18, the WHARF Wool Road3 sales

Back to Oldham house prices.

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

The median price paid in Wool Road, Oldham across every sale on the register is £105,000. 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 Wool Road, Oldham?

173 sales are on record for Wool Road, Oldham, the most recent completing on 2 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wool Road, Oldham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +59.8% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

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

The highest yearly median on record is £211,750, set in 2016. 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 Wool Road, Oldham?

£1,994 per square metre, from the 28 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 2 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, “Wool 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.