Croft Head Drive, Rochdale house prices are built from 102 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 24 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £127,000. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +85.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +33.9%.
Median price paid
£127,000
Change in cash, 2013–2024
+85.5%
Change in real terms
+33.9%
HM Land Registry102 salesLatest sale 24 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Croft Head Drive, Rochdale prices moved
The chart tracks the median Croft Head Drive, Rochdale house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £49,000 | £108,803 |
| 2000s | 2 | £101,000 | £183,992 |
| 2010s | 1 | £114,000 | £160,740 |
| 2020s | 1 | £211,500 | £216,098 |
The highest yearly median on record for Croft Head Drive, Rochdale is £211,500 in 2024; the lowest is £49,000 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £211,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,015, so the real change over the whole record is +109.9% — about +2.78% 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: +85.5% in cash against +33.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 Feb 2026 | Detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 41 | 1 Aug 2025 | Detached | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 30 | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £178,000 | £181,870 |
| 29 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 68 | 22 Nov 2024 | Detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 25 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 64 | 25 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 27 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £213,000 | £224,127 |
| 5 | 12 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £193,600 | £203,713 |
| 58 | 28 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £215,709 |
| 59 | 7 Jun 2024 | Detached | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| 48 | 24 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 46 | 20 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 28 | 17 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £195,000 | £210,690 |
| 36 | 14 Oct 2022 | Detached | £200,000 | £231,717 |
| 76 | 15 Jul 2022 | Detached | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 65 | 3 Dec 2021 | Detached | £249,950 | £315,797 |
| 58 | 30 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| 43 | 12 Feb 2021 | Detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 15 | 10 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £233,058 |
| 28 | 29 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £126,500 | £165,459 |
| 66 | 26 Apr 2019 | Detached | £235,000 | £307,375 |
| 49 | 23 Jan 2018 | Detached | £195,000 | £259,877 |
| 23 | 6 Oct 2017 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £190,541 |
| 60 | 31 Jul 2017 | Semi-detached | £147,000 | £200,068 |
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 Croft Head Drive, Rochdale values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Croft Head Drive | £68,000 (1998) | £280,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 29 Croft Head Drive | £147,000 (2007) | £230,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.5% |
| 68 Croft Head Drive | £163,000 (2009) | £290,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 64 Croft Head Drive | £45,000 (1997) | £210,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 27 Croft Head Drive | £49,500 (1998) | £213,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 5 Croft Head Drive | £97,500 (2013) | £193,600 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.3% |
| 58 Croft Head Drive | £110,500 (2011) | £205,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +1.9% |
| 59 Croft Head Drive | £150,000 (2014) | £310,000 (2024) | +7.5% | +4.2% |
| 46 Croft Head Drive | £113,000 (2013) | £280,000 (2023) | +9.5% | +6.3% |
| 28 Croft Head Drive | £77,500 (2002) | £195,000 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 36 Croft Head Drive | £45,000 (1995) | £200,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 65 Croft Head Drive | £133,500 (2003) | £249,950 (2021) | +3.5% | +1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Croft Head Drive, Rochdale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 62 | 60.8% | £117,500 | £45,000 – £280,000 |
| Detached | 29 | 28.4% | £190,000 | £68,000 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 11 | 10.8% | £87,000 | £45,000 – £195,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Croft Head Drive, Rochdale
16 of the sales on record are leasehold and 86 freehold — 15.7% 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 £111,250 and the median freehold sale £132,538 — a gap of +19.1%. 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 | 16 | 15.7% | £111,250 |
| Freehold | 86 | 84.3% | £132,538 |
A further 3 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 Croft Head Drive, Rochdale
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 £127,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.70% 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 OL16 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 Croft Head Drive, Rochdale
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.
15 state and independent schools have a OL16 postcode: 12 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollingworth Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,331 |
| Kingsway Park High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,289 |
| St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,023 |
| Lowerplace Primary School | Primary | Community school | 533 |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 455 |
| Belfield Community School | Primary | Community school | 429 |
| Broadfield Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 406 |
| Hamer Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 323 |
| Crossgates Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 312 |
| Newhey Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 285 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Newbold (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 0.3 km |
| Newbold (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.3 km |
| Newbold (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.3 km |
| Kingsway (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 0.5 km |
Section 09
How Croft Head Drive, Rochdale compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Croft Head Drive, Rochdale sits below that national figure — -19.4%.
Within Rochdale the street ranks 556 of 1614 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £95,000 (+33.7%).
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 £45,000 to £425,000. 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.
Croft Head Drive, Rochdale 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
- Rochdale Road£81,000 median
- Halifax Road£65,000 median
- Huddersfield Road£89,000 median
- Milnrow Road£68,000 median
- Newhey Road£82,500 median
- Broad Lane£129,950 median
- Juniper Drive£84,850 median
- Royds Street£60,000 median
- Shaw Road£96,250 median
- Prince Street£64,000 median
- Croxton Avenue£74,000 median
- Tarnside Close£203,000 median
- Ginnell Farm Avenue£229,995 median
- Buersil Avenue£83,000 median
- Entwisle Road£65,000 median
- Newbold Hall Drive£145,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 64 Croft Head Drive6 sales
- 27 Croft Head Drive6 sales
- 58 Croft Head Drive4 sales
- 36 Croft Head Drive4 sales
- 62 Croft Head Drive4 sales
- 29 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 28 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 15 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 23 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 52 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 39 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 9 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 72 Croft Head Drive3 sales
- 1 Croft Head Drive2 sales
- 68 Croft Head Drive2 sales
- 5 Croft Head Drive2 sales
- 59 Croft Head Drive2 sales
- 46 Croft Head Drive2 sales
- 65 Croft Head Drive2 sales
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- 49 Croft Head Drive2 sales
- 60 Croft Head Drive2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Croft Head Drive, Rochdale?
The median price paid in Croft Head Drive, Rochdale across every sale on the register is £127,000. 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 Croft Head Drive, Rochdale?
102 sales are on record for Croft Head Drive, Rochdale, the most recent completing on 24 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Croft Head Drive, Rochdale house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +85.5% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +33.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Croft Head Drive, Rochdale house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £211,500, set in 2024. 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 Croft Head Drive, Rochdale?
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 24 Feb 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, “Croft Head Drive, Rochdale 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.