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Farnworth market report BL4 7, Bolton
The standing BL4 7 (Farnworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,622 HM Land Registry entries for BL4 7 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BL4 7 (Bolton) is £165,000, from 31 registered sales, up 41% on five years earlier; the mean is £173,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,970 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,622 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BL4 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BL4 (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 BL4 7 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.
BL4 7 sold prices: where the market stands
In the BL4 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £165,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £173,300, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BL4 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BL4 7 costs about £1,970 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BL4 7 42% below the national figure.
A typical BL4 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £138,500 | £141,812 | 67 |
| 2024 | £162,000 | £172,239 | 73 |
| 2023 | £135,000 | £148,332 | 70 |
| 2022 | £139,000 | £162,993 | 78 |
| 2021 | £117,000 | £148,137 | 101 |
| 2020 | £102,000 | £132,347 | 71 |
| 2019 | £100,000 | £131,076 | 102 |
| 2018 | £85,000 | £113,307 | 104 |
| 2017 | £95,000 | £129,570 | 140 |
| 2016 | £78,000 | £109,123 | 105 |
| 2015 | £71,500 | £101,030 | 88 |
| 2014 | £69,000 | £97,889 | 68 |
| 2013 | £77,500 | £111,515 | 55 |
| 2012 | £71,000 | £104,503 | 65 |
| 2011 | £67,200 | £101,446 | 60 |
| 2010 | £65,000 | £101,937 | 41 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 56 |
| 2008 | £89,200 | £146,218 | 110 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 193 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 141 |
| 2005 | £71,500 | £127,241 | 133 |
| 2004 | £62,800 | £114,057 | 220 |
| 2003 | £45,000 | £82,901 | 199 |
| 2002 | £37,800 | £71,120 | 202 |
| 2001 | £38,000 | £73,053 | 218 |
| 2000 | £37,500 | £73,594 | 207 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 139 |
| 1998 | £32,500 | £65,604 | 140 |
| 1997 | £29,000 | £59,473 | 127 |
| 1996 | £27,500 | £57,996 | 104 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 114 |
In cash terms the typical BL4 7 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 137%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 4% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL4 7 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 (+39.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−18.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BL4 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +19.1% | +16.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.1% | +2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.8% | +4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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
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.
BL4 7 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
The rental side of BL4 7
For renting purposes BL4 7 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.
Set against the £165,000 median sold price, £883 a month is £10,596 a year, a gross yield of 6.4%: 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.
The shape of the BL4 7 market
This is a thin market: 31 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 BL4 district median, BL4 7 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: BL4 7 (Farnworth)
How much did a house sell for in BL4 7 (Farnworth)?
Are property prices falling in BL4 7 (Farnworth)?
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Will BL4 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 41% over five years in cash and up 11% 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 BL4 now
Turning to what is actually available: 101 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL4 district, not just BL4 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"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 BL4 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.
What another bedroom costs in BL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BL area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BL4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BL4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL4 0 | £230,000 | 42 |
| 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 7: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BL4 7'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BL4 7.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BL4 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL4 7 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.
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.