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Bolton centre market report BL1 8, Bolton
The BL1 8 (Bolton centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,972 registered sales in BL1 8 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BL1 8 (Bolton) home changed hands for £190,000 in 2026 (median of 35 registered sales, up 37% on five years earlier), with the mean at £190,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,190 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,972 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BL1 8 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 8 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 a home in BL1 8 sells for
Across 35 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BL1 8 home went for £190,000. The mean is £190,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in BL1 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BL1 8 sales average about £2,190 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BL1 8 trades 33% below the country as a whole.
A typical BL1 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 129 |
| 2024 | £155,400 | £165,222 | 117 |
| 2023 | £162,500 | £178,548 | 102 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 141 |
| 2021 | £138,500 | £175,359 | 170 |
| 2020 | £143,000 | £185,545 | 119 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 163 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 209 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 215 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 215 |
| 2015 | £102,000 | £144,126 | 148 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 128 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 142 |
| 2012 | £82,500 | £121,430 | 109 |
| 2011 | £76,500 | £115,486 | 120 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 86 |
| 2009 | £89,500 | £143,872 | 96 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 178 |
| 2007 | £120,600 | £204,571 | 312 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 176 |
| 2005 | £91,000 | £161,943 | 194 |
| 2004 | £75,500 | £137,123 | 196 |
| 2003 | £53,000 | £97,639 | 213 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 206 |
| 2001 | £38,500 | £74,014 | 172 |
| 2000 | £35,600 | £69,865 | 162 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 135 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 146 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 154 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 148 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical BL1 8 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 191%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BL1 8 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 2004 (+42.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BL1 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.5% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 35 BL1 8 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 204 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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.
The shape of the BL1 8 market
This is a thin market: 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around BL1 8
The local authority for BL1 8 is Bolton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £190,000 median purchase price, a rent of £883 a month (£10,596 a year) works out at a 5.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: BL1 8 (Bolton centre)
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What happens to BL1 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% 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.
BL1's current homes for sale
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BL area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 6 | £202,500 | 50 |
| BL1 7 | £253,500 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full BL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL1 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BL1 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BL1 8.
Dig further
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See every individual BL1 8 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.