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Farnworth market report BL4 0, Bolton
The BL4 0 (Farnworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,801 registered sales in BL4 0 (Bolton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: a typical BL4 0 (Bolton) home changed hands for £230,000 in 2026 (median of 42 registered sales, up 59% on five years earlier), with the mean at £221,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,220 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,801 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BL4 0 is one sector of BL4 (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 BL4 0 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 buyers actually paid in BL4 0
The BL4 0 median stands at £230,000 for 2026, built from 42 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £221,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in BL4 0
A square metre of BL4 0 home has cost about £2,220 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BL4 0 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BL4 0 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £195,800 | £200,482 | 116 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 99 |
| 2023 | £172,500 | £189,535 | 74 |
| 2022 | £174,000 | £204,035 | 112 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 121 |
| 2020 | £127,500 | £165,434 | 104 |
| 2019 | £123,000 | £161,224 | 104 |
| 2018 | £114,500 | £152,631 | 136 |
| 2017 | £109,500 | £149,347 | 130 |
| 2016 | £99,000 | £138,502 | 120 |
| 2015 | £99,000 | £139,887 | 85 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 113 |
| 2013 | £93,000 | £133,818 | 94 |
| 2012 | £88,200 | £129,819 | 78 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 71 |
| 2010 | £89,000 | £139,575 | 71 |
| 2009 | £88,000 | £141,461 | 49 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 91 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 187 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 173 |
| 2005 | £88,200 | £156,960 | 124 |
| 2004 | £73,000 | £132,582 | 210 |
| 2003 | £52,500 | £96,718 | 200 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 218 |
| 2001 | £45,300 | £87,087 | 198 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 170 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 144 |
| 1998 | £31,500 | £63,585 | 99 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 97 |
| 1996 | £31,500 | £66,432 | 77 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical BL4 0 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 221%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the BL4 0 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 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.0%). 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) | +17.5% | +14.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +9.7% | +4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +8.8% | +5.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
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.
Sales activity in BL4 0
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BL4 0 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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 BL4 0
BL4 0 falls under Bolton, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £230,000 median purchase price, a rent of £883 a month (£10,596 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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 BL4 0 trades
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL4 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within BL4, this sector trades 24% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: BL4 0 (Farnworth)
Are property prices falling in BL4 0 (Farnworth)?
Is BL4 0 (Farnworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL4 0 (Farnworth)?
What happens to BL4 0 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 59% over five years in cash and up 25% 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 BL4 today
The live side of the market holds 101 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL4 district, not just BL4 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Fernbeck Close, BOLTON, Lancashire, BL4
- Albion Hall Place, Farnworth / Kearsl...
- Carlton Gardens, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BL4 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
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BL4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BL4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL4 7 | £165,000 | 31 |
| BL4 8 | £205,500 | 36 |
| BL4 9 | £175,500 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full BL4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BL4 0: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL4 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL4 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL4 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BL4 0.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL4 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL4 0 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.
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.