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Bolton centre market report BL1 6, Bolton
The BL1 6 (Bolton centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,644 registered sales in BL1 6 (Bolton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BL1 6 (Bolton) is £202,500, from 50 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier; the mean is £208,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,644 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BL1 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BL1 (Bolton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BL1 6 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What BL1 6 homes really sell for
50 sales were registered in BL1 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £202,500. The mean works out at £208,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
BL1 6 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BL1 6 sales average about £2,250 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BL1 6 29% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BL1 6 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £202,500 | £202,500 | 50 |
| 2025 | £195,500 | £200,175 | 125 |
| 2024 | £196,000 | £208,388 | 109 |
| 2023 | £179,000 | £196,677 | 126 |
| 2022 | £186,000 | £218,106 | 131 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 174 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £203,711 | 131 |
| 2019 | £127,000 | £166,467 | 140 |
| 2018 | £128,200 | £170,893 | 128 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 138 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 175 |
| 2015 | £121,800 | £172,103 | 138 |
| 2014 | £117,800 | £167,120 | 120 |
| 2013 | £118,800 | £170,941 | 118 |
| 2012 | £118,600 | £174,564 | 82 |
| 2011 | £108,000 | £163,038 | 91 |
| 2010 | £116,000 | £181,918 | 95 |
| 2009 | £123,000 | £197,724 | 88 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 100 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 184 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 196 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 143 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 187 |
| 2003 | £83,000 | £152,906 | 219 |
| 2002 | £63,600 | £119,663 | 240 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 221 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 189 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 185 |
| 1998 | £45,500 | £91,845 | 180 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 161 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 150 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 130 |
In cash terms the typical BL1 6 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £202,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 142%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BL1 6 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BL1 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.6% | +1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 50 BL1 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 197 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the BL1 6 market
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL1 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the BL1 district median, BL1 6 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around BL1 6
BL1 6 falls under Bolton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £883 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £646 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,433, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bolton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£883 a month is £10,596 a year, which against the £202,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: BL1 6 (Bolton centre)
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What happens to BL1 6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BL1 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 212 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL1 district, not just BL1 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BL1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in BL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BL area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £279,995 | £365,000 (+30%) | £530,500 (+45%) | £775,000 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £209,000 (+16%) | £255,000 (+22%) | £337,500 (+32%) | £444,000 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £131,000 | £153,500 (+17%) | £180,000 (+17%) | £245,000 (+36%) | £358,000 (+46%) |
| Flat | £106,000 | £135,000 (+27%) | £208,500 (+54%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BL1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BL1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL1 1 | £75,000 | 2 |
| BL1 2 | £120,000 | 4 |
| BL1 3 | £143,500 | 43 |
| BL1 4 | £141,500 | 43 |
| BL1 5 | £315,500 | 56 |
| BL1 7 | £253,500 | 48 |
| BL1 8 | £190,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full BL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL1 6? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BL1 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL1 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL1 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual BL1 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.