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Bolton centre market report BL2 2, Bolton
The BL2 2 (Bolton centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,826 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL2 2 (Bolton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BL2 2 (Bolton) is £163,000, from 31 registered sales, up 37% on five years earlier; the mean is £174,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,870 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,826 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BL2 2 is one sector of BL2 (Bolton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BL2 2 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.
The going rate for a home in BL2 2
In the BL2 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £163,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £174,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BL2 2
Per square metre, BL2 2 homes have averaged around £1,870 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BL2 2 43% below the national figure.
The price of a typical BL2 2 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 | £163,000 | £163,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £174,200 | £178,366 | 92 |
| 2024 | £145,500 | £154,696 | 72 |
| 2023 | £135,000 | £148,332 | 75 |
| 2022 | £127,000 | £148,922 | 105 |
| 2021 | £119,200 | £150,923 | 112 |
| 2020 | £100,000 | £129,752 | 104 |
| 2019 | £97,500 | £127,799 | 110 |
| 2018 | £90,000 | £119,972 | 107 |
| 2017 | £91,600 | £124,933 | 122 |
| 2016 | £83,200 | £116,398 | 104 |
| 2015 | £76,000 | £107,388 | 93 |
| 2014 | £75,000 | £106,401 | 76 |
| 2013 | £65,000 | £93,529 | 62 |
| 2012 | £70,000 | £103,031 | 67 |
| 2011 | £78,800 | £118,958 | 114 |
| 2010 | £68,200 | £106,955 | 82 |
| 2009 | £76,500 | £122,974 | 96 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 141 |
| 2007 | £92,200 | £156,397 | 201 |
| 2006 | £81,000 | £140,606 | 138 |
| 2005 | £72,000 | £128,131 | 178 |
| 2004 | £55,700 | £101,162 | 222 |
| 2003 | £40,000 | £73,690 | 247 |
| 2002 | £30,500 | £57,385 | 203 |
| 2001 | £30,000 | £57,673 | 162 |
| 2000 | £25,000 | £49,063 | 139 |
| 1999 | £25,500 | £50,820 | 132 |
| 1998 | £27,000 | £54,501 | 113 |
| 1997 | £29,000 | £59,473 | 91 |
| 1996 | £28,500 | £60,105 | 127 |
| 1995 | £27,500 | £59,781 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical BL2 2 home went from £27,500 in 1995 to £163,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 173%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2025. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BL2 2 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 (+39.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.4% | −8.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.5% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.0% | +3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in BL2 2
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 31 BL2 2 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 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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 BL2 2 is
This is a thin market: 31 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the BL2 district median, BL2 2 sits 20% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of BL2 2
For renting purposes BL2 2 sits in Bolton. The ONS average private rent there is £883 a month (May 2026). 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.
£883 a month is £10,596 a year, which against the £163,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.5%. 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.
Common questions on BL2 2 (Bolton centre)
How much did a house sell for in BL2 2 (Bolton centre)?
Are property prices falling in BL2 2 (Bolton centre)?
Is BL2 2 (Bolton centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BL2 2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% 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 BL2 now
Turning to what is actually available: 251 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL2 district, not just BL2 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BL2 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BL: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BL area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BL2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BL2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL2 1 | £205,000 | 17 |
| BL2 3 | £265,000 | 46 |
| BL2 4 | £260,000 | 29 |
| BL2 5 | £185,000 | 29 |
| BL2 6 | £170,000 | 55 |
Zoom out to the full BL2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL2 2? 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 BL2 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL2 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL2 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BL2 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL2 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BL2 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.