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Bolton centre market report BL2 4, Bolton
The BL2 4 (Bolton centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,517 HM Land Registry entries for BL2 4 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 29 registered 2026 sales put the BL2 4 (Bolton) median at £260,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £297,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,080 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,517 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BL2 4 is a single group of streets within BL2 (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 BL2 4 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 4
The 2026 median for BL2 4 is £260,000, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £297,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BL2 4
The last five years of sales put BL2 4 at roughly £3,080 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BL2 4 trades 9% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BL2 4 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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 79 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 72 |
| 2023 | £267,500 | £293,917 | 58 |
| 2022 | £266,500 | £312,502 | 77 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 83 |
| 2020 | £197,000 | £255,612 | 85 |
| 2019 | £212,500 | £278,537 | 84 |
| 2018 | £211,000 | £281,267 | 90 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 67 |
| 2016 | £178,500 | £249,723 | 90 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 78 |
| 2014 | £159,000 | £225,569 | 80 |
| 2013 | £158,000 | £227,346 | 63 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 55 |
| 2011 | £172,500 | £260,409 | 47 |
| 2010 | £164,500 | £257,978 | 44 |
| 2009 | £176,800 | £284,208 | 44 |
| 2008 | £162,000 | £265,552 | 42 |
| 2007 | £178,500 | £302,786 | 83 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 71 |
| 2005 | £162,800 | £289,718 | 64 |
| 2004 | £152,000 | £276,062 | 88 |
| 2003 | £119,000 | £219,227 | 81 |
| 2002 | £94,000 | £176,860 | 113 |
| 2001 | £78,500 | £150,912 | 104 |
| 2000 | £77,500 | £152,094 | 81 |
| 1999 | £67,800 | £135,122 | 126 |
| 1998 | £60,800 | £122,729 | 116 |
| 1997 | £63,500 | £130,226 | 118 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 115 |
| 1995 | £57,800 | £125,648 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical BL2 4 home went from £57,800 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BL2 4 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 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−13.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.8% | −10.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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 BL2 4
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 29 BL2 4 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 86 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.
The shape of the BL2 4 market
This is a thin market: 29 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. Against the BL2 district median, BL2 4 sits 27% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around BL2 4
BL2 4 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.
£883 a month is £10,596 a year, which against the £260,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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: BL2 4 (Bolton centre)
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Are BL2 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 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.
What another bedroom costs in BL
Real sold prices by size across the BL area, straight 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 3 | £265,000 | 46 |
| 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 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL2 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL2 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL2 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BL2 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL2 4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.