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Bolton centre market report BL2 5, Bolton
The BL2 5 (Bolton centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,894 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL2 5 (Bolton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 5 (Bolton) median at £185,000, up 16% on five years earlier, with a mean of £191,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,894 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BL2 5 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 5 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.
Today's BL2 5 prices, from the sold record
Take the 29 registered 2026 sales in BL2 5 and the middle price, the median, is £185,000. The mean lands at £191,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in BL2 5
The last five years of sales put BL2 5 at roughly £2,380 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BL2 5 sits 35% below the national market.
The price of a typical BL2 5 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 102 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 95 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 85 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 88 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 129 |
| 2020 | £151,000 | £195,926 | 84 |
| 2019 | £125,200 | £164,107 | 92 |
| 2018 | £134,500 | £179,291 | 74 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 73 |
| 2016 | £117,500 | £164,384 | 99 |
| 2015 | £114,000 | £161,082 | 85 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 77 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 69 |
| 2012 | £102,000 | £150,131 | 35 |
| 2011 | £106,000 | £160,019 | 60 |
| 2010 | £97,000 | £152,121 | 61 |
| 2009 | £89,500 | £143,872 | 66 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 65 |
| 2007 | £107,500 | £182,350 | 139 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 101 |
| 2005 | £93,000 | £165,503 | 113 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 134 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 136 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 155 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 125 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 105 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 102 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 104 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 80 |
| 1996 | £40,800 | £86,045 | 69 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical BL2 5 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 108%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL2 5 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.6%). 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) | −2.6% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in BL2 5
Sales per year, counted
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 29 BL2 5 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 126 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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.
Reading the BL2 5 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. 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. Within BL2, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of BL2 5
For renting purposes BL2 5 sits in Bolton. The ONS average private rent there is £883 a month (May 2026). 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.
£883 a month is £10,596 a year, which against the £185,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
What people ask about BL2 5 (Bolton centre)
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Will BL2 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BL prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BL area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
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 BL2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BL2's other sectors, each with 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 4 | £260,000 | 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.
Thinking of selling in BL2 5? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BL2 5'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.
Estate agents working BL2 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BL2 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BL2 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BL2 5 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.
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.