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Bolton centre market report BL2 3, Bolton
The standing BL2 3 (Bolton centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,672 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BL2 3 (Bolton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BL2 3 (Bolton) came in at £265,000, out of 46 registered, up 30% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £271,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,672 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BL2 3 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 3 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 3
In the BL2 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £265,000, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £271,100, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BL2 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BL2 3 sales average about £2,870 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 BL2 3 7% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BL2 3 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £263,500 | £269,801 | 157 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 126 |
| 2023 | £231,200 | £254,032 | 138 |
| 2022 | £233,600 | £273,923 | 131 |
| 2021 | £203,500 | £257,657 | 162 |
| 2020 | £196,500 | £254,963 | 128 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 144 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 197 |
| 2017 | £167,000 | £227,771 | 172 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 178 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 142 |
| 2014 | £149,000 | £211,383 | 139 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 95 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 83 |
| 2011 | £143,800 | £217,083 | 98 |
| 2010 | £142,000 | £222,693 | 79 |
| 2009 | £140,900 | £226,498 | 82 |
| 2008 | £134,500 | £220,474 | 80 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 183 |
| 2006 | £136,500 | £236,947 | 176 |
| 2005 | £138,000 | £245,584 | 150 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 179 |
| 2003 | £98,000 | £180,540 | 193 |
| 2002 | £86,700 | £163,125 | 206 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 175 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 158 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 187 |
| 1998 | £59,500 | £120,105 | 153 |
| 1997 | £53,500 | £109,718 | 195 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 199 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical BL2 3 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 122%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 4% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BL2 3 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 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.3%). 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) | +0.6% | −1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.4% | +0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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 46 BL2 3 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 178 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around BL2 3
BL2 3 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.
Against the £265,000 median purchase price, a rent of £883 a month (£10,596 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
How BL2 3 trades
This is a thin market: 46 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. Against the BL2 district median, BL2 3 sits 29% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about BL2 3 (Bolton centre)
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Are BL2 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and up 3% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
BL2's current homes for sale
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BL2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL2 1 | £205,000 | 17 |
| BL2 2 | £163,000 | 31 |
| 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 a home in BL2 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BL2 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL2 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL2 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BL2 3.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every BL2 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.