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Farnworth market report BL4 8, Bolton
The BL4 8 (Farnworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,331 registered sales in BL4 8 (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: the 2026 median for BL4 8 (Bolton) is £205,500, from 36 registered sales, up 37% on five years earlier; the mean is £199,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,280 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,331 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BL4 8 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 8 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 8
Across 36 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BL4 8 home went for £205,500. The mean is £199,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in BL4 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BL4 8 costs about £2,280 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 BL4 8 28% below the country at large.
A typical BL4 8 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 | £205,500 | £205,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £192,000 | £196,591 | 113 |
| 2024 | £182,000 | £193,503 | 87 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 82 |
| 2022 | £165,900 | £194,537 | 109 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 103 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 83 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 104 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 96 |
| 2017 | £106,000 | £144,573 | 87 |
| 2016 | £95,500 | £133,605 | 104 |
| 2015 | £95,200 | £134,518 | 94 |
| 2014 | £93,000 | £131,937 | 78 |
| 2013 | £83,200 | £119,716 | 72 |
| 2012 | £81,000 | £119,222 | 73 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 75 |
| 2010 | £87,500 | £137,223 | 65 |
| 2009 | £87,500 | £140,657 | 46 |
| 2008 | £104,500 | £171,298 | 118 |
| 2007 | £102,500 | £173,869 | 134 |
| 2006 | £91,500 | £158,832 | 131 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 118 |
| 2004 | £72,100 | £130,948 | 169 |
| 2003 | £55,000 | £101,323 | 170 |
| 2002 | £41,000 | £77,141 | 171 |
| 2001 | £38,000 | £73,053 | 145 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 111 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 105 |
| 1998 | £35,500 | £71,659 | 114 |
| 1997 | £43,800 | £89,825 | 130 |
| 1996 | £36,200 | £76,344 | 118 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical BL4 8 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £205,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the BL4 8 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 2003 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−18.9%). 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) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.5% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +8.0% | +4.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BL4 8
The year-by-year sales count
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.
BL4 8 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 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 8
For renting purposes BL4 8 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 £205,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
How BL4 8 trades
This is a thin market: 36 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. Within BL4, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: BL4 8 (Farnworth)
Is BL4 8 (Farnworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL4 8 (Farnworth)?
Are property prices falling in BL4 8 (Farnworth)?
Where do BL4 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
BL4's current homes for sale
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Fernbeck Close, BOLTON, Lancashire, BL4
- Albion Hall Place, Farnworth / Kearsl...
- Carlton Gardens, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire
"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 →
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%) | — | — |
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.
BL area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 7 | £165,000 | 31 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BL4 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BL4 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL4 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL4 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BL4 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL4 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL4 8 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.
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.