Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 21,823 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL2 (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 May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
BL2 is the postcode district covering Bolton centre, Ainsworth, Bradley Fold in Bolton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BL2 sits
Click the map to open BL2 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£196,000median sold price, 2026
+28%five-year change (cash)
554sales in the last 12 months
5.4%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in BL2 sells for
The 2026 median in BL2 is £196,000, from 161 registered sales; the mean, £207,400, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so BL2 trades 28% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BL2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£196,000
£196,000
161
2025
£193,000
£193,000
712
2024
£185,000
£192,099
680
2023
£170,000
£182,426
662
2022
£172,200
£197,208
766
2021
£153,000
£189,194
895
2020
£135,000
£171,074
709
2019
£130,500
£167,059
707
2018
£135,000
£175,755
745
2017
£131,000
£174,498
892
2016
£124,200
£169,699
776
2015
£118,500
£163,530
643
2014
£115,000
£159,337
567
2013
£115,000
£161,609
403
2012
£108,000
£155,250
342
2011
£105,000
£154,808
437
2010
£105,000
£160,821
371
2009
£107,400
£168,614
373
2008
£115,000
£184,107
439
2007
£120,000
£198,800
962
2006
£107,000
£181,400
746
2005
£95,000
£165,113
776
2004
£84,000
£148,997
913
2003
£63,000
£113,351
996
2002
£56,500
£103,822
1,002
2001
£51,000
£95,755
895
2000
£47,000
£90,083
713
1999
£47,800
£93,038
793
1998
£45,500
£89,700
710
1997
£45,200
£90,531
712
1996
£44,000
£90,627
726
1995
£43,000
£91,292
599
In cash terms the typical BL2 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £196,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the BL2 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.6%). 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)
+1.6%
+1.6%
5 years (since 2021)
+5.1%
+0.7%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.7%
+1.5%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.1%
+0.4%
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
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
BL2 recorded 554 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 875 sales a year before the financial crisis and 596 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.
What homes rent for around BL2
BL2 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.
Set against the £196,000 median sold price, £883 a month is £10,596 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Will BL2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and up 4% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
BL2 ranks 3 of 10 in the BL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside BL2, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.