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Bolton centre market report BL2 6, Bolton
The standing BL2 6 (Bolton centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,598 HM Land Registry entries for BL2 6 (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 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 6 (Bolton) came in at £170,000, out of 55 registered, up 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £187,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,330 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,598 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BL2 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BL2 (Bolton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BL2 6 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 BL2 6 homes really sell for
Take the 55 registered 2026 sales in BL2 6 and the middle price, the median, is £170,000. The mean lands at £187,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BL2 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BL2 6 costs about £2,330 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BL2 6 40% below the country at large.
A typical BL2 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 140 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 110 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 109 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 149 |
| 2021 | £141,500 | £179,157 | 146 |
| 2020 | £129,000 | £167,380 | 97 |
| 2019 | £123,200 | £161,486 | 122 |
| 2018 | £117,000 | £155,963 | 137 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 122 |
| 2016 | £112,500 | £157,389 | 138 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 131 |
| 2014 | £88,000 | £124,843 | 98 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 75 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 82 |
| 2011 | £87,200 | £131,638 | 90 |
| 2010 | £88,800 | £139,261 | 81 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 65 |
| 2008 | £108,200 | £177,363 | 81 |
| 2007 | £106,000 | £179,806 | 259 |
| 2006 | £92,800 | £161,089 | 200 |
| 2005 | £90,500 | £161,054 | 192 |
| 2004 | £69,000 | £125,317 | 212 |
| 2003 | £52,400 | £96,534 | 252 |
| 2002 | £46,000 | £86,549 | 235 |
| 2001 | £42,500 | £81,704 | 235 |
| 2000 | £39,900 | £78,304 | 164 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 181 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 168 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 175 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 159 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 138 |
In cash terms the typical BL2 6 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 96%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL2 6 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 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−15.0%). 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) | −10.5% | −12.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 55 BL2 6 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 219 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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 tenants pay around BL2 6
For renting purposes BL2 6 sits in Bolton. The ONS average private rent there is £883 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £646 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,433 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £170,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.2%. 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 kind of market BL2 6 is
Only 55 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL2 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within BL2, this sector trades 17% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: BL2 6 (Bolton centre)
Is BL2 6 (Bolton centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL2 6 (Bolton centre)?
Are property prices falling in BL2 6 (Bolton centre)?
Are BL2 6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in BL2 today
The live side of the market holds 251 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL2 district, not just BL2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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.
What another bedroom costs in BL
Real sold prices by size across the BL area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 2 | £163,000 | 31 |
| BL2 3 | £265,000 | 46 |
| BL2 4 | £260,000 | 29 |
| BL2 5 | £185,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full BL2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL2 6? 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 BL2 6'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 BL2 6.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BL2 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual BL2 6 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.
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.