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Bolton centre market report BL3 4, Bolton
The BL3 4 (Bolton centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,465 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL3 4 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in BL3 4 (Bolton) sold for £242,000 in 2026, the median of 51 registered sales, up 51% on five years earlier. The mean was £251,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,400 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,465 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like BL3 4 is a single group of streets within BL3 (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 BL3 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.
Today's BL3 4 prices, from the sold record
Across 51 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BL3 4 home went for £242,000. The mean is £251,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in BL3 4
A square metre of BL3 4 home has cost about £2,400 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BL3 4 15% below the national figure.
The price of a typical BL3 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 | £242,000 | £242,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 142 |
| 2024 | £170,500 | £181,277 | 122 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 132 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 152 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 176 |
| 2020 | £147,000 | £190,736 | 176 |
| 2019 | £138,000 | £180,885 | 155 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 163 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 180 |
| 2016 | £124,500 | £174,177 | 174 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 164 |
| 2014 | £113,000 | £160,310 | 163 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 126 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 137 |
| 2011 | £101,000 | £152,471 | 114 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 149 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 129 |
| 2008 | £114,000 | £186,870 | 151 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 300 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 300 |
| 2005 | £98,500 | £175,290 | 221 |
| 2004 | £98,200 | £178,350 | 318 |
| 2003 | £53,000 | £97,639 | 307 |
| 2002 | £68,000 | £127,941 | 422 |
| 2001 | £57,200 | £109,964 | 314 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 287 |
| 1999 | £52,800 | £105,228 | 241 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 261 |
| 1997 | £50,900 | £104,386 | 298 |
| 1996 | £50,200 | £105,870 | 247 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 193 |
In cash terms the typical BL3 4 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £242,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the BL3 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 (+85.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2003 (−22.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.0% | +7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.6% | +3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.9% | +3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 51 BL3 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 309 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 BL3 4
The local authority for BL3 4 is Bolton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £883 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £242,000 median purchase price, a rent of £883 a month (£10,596 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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 BL3 4 trades
This is a thin market: 51 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. Against the BL3 district median, BL3 4 sits 33% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Real searches this page gets asked
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, BL3 4RD among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What people ask about BL3 4 (Bolton centre)
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What happens to BL3 4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 51% over five years in cash and up 19% 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.
On the market in BL3 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 134 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL3 district, not just BL3 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 BL3 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Winners and losers across the BL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BL3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BL3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL3 1 | £202,500 | 60 |
| BL3 2 | £151,000 | 29 |
| BL3 3 | £165,000 | 51 |
| BL3 5 | £160,000 | 5 |
| BL3 6 | £132,500 | 8 |
Zoom out to the full BL3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BL3 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL3 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL3 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL3 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BL3 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BL3 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BL3 4 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.