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Bolton centre market report BL1 7, Bolton
The standing BL1 7 (Bolton centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,171 HM Land Registry entries for BL1 7 (Bolton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the BL1 7 (Bolton) median at £253,500, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £248,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,570 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,171 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BL1 7 is a single group of streets within BL1 (Bolton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BL1 7 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 buyers actually paid in BL1 7
The 2026 median for BL1 7 is £253,500, taken from 48 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £248,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
BL1 7 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BL1 7 homes have averaged around £2,570 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BL1 7 sits 11% below the national market.
The price of a typical BL1 7 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £253,500 | £253,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £213,900 | £219,015 | 138 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 133 |
| 2023 | £216,000 | £237,331 | 115 |
| 2022 | £230,500 | £270,288 | 164 |
| 2021 | £222,500 | £281,714 | 164 |
| 2020 | £163,000 | £211,496 | 135 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 168 |
| 2018 | £166,000 | £221,281 | 159 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 179 |
| 2016 | £158,500 | £221,743 | 164 |
| 2015 | £151,000 | £213,363 | 172 |
| 2014 | £143,500 | £203,580 | 172 |
| 2013 | £139,000 | £200,007 | 147 |
| 2012 | £124,000 | £182,513 | 126 |
| 2011 | £148,200 | £223,725 | 136 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 110 |
| 2009 | £142,500 | £229,070 | 107 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 135 |
| 2007 | £159,200 | £270,048 | 190 |
| 2006 | £156,000 | £270,796 | 157 |
| 2005 | £146,000 | £259,821 | 139 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 177 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 186 |
| 2002 | £91,700 | £172,533 | 260 |
| 2001 | £81,000 | £155,718 | 234 |
| 2000 | £67,500 | £132,469 | 201 |
| 1999 | £69,500 | £138,510 | 239 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 243 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 184 |
| 1996 | £52,500 | £110,720 | 141 |
| 1995 | £56,900 | £123,692 | 148 |
In cash terms the typical BL1 7 home went from £56,900 in 1995 to £253,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 105%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL1 7 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 2021 (+36.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−16.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +18.5% | +15.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in BL1 7
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 48 BL1 7 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 193 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market BL1 7 is
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL1 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within BL1, this sector trades 35% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around BL1 7
BL1 7 falls under Bolton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £883 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £646 a month here against £1,433 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bolton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £253,500 median sold price, £883 a month is £10,596 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: BL1 7 (Bolton centre)
How much did a house sell for in BL1 7 (Bolton centre)?
Are property prices falling in BL1 7 (Bolton centre)?
Is BL1 7 (Bolton centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BL1 7 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in BL1 right now
The live side of the market holds 212 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL1 district, not just BL1 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: BL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BL area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BL1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BL1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| 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 6 | £202,500 | 50 |
| 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.
Before you sell in BL1 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL1 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL1 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL1 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BL1 7.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BL1 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual BL1 7 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.