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Farnworth market report BL4 9, Bolton
The standing BL4 9 (Farnworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,948 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL4 9 (Bolton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 34 registered 2026 sales put the BL4 9 (Bolton) median at £175,500, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £170,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,948 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BL4 9 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 9 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.
The going rate for a home in BL4 9
In the BL4 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £175,500, from 34 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £170,500, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in BL4 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BL4 9 costs about £2,030 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 9 38% below the national figure.
BL4 9's median sold price, 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 | £175,500 | £175,500 | 34 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 69 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 74 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 73 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 83 |
| 2021 | £142,500 | £180,423 | 90 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 101 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 106 |
| 2018 | £105,000 | £139,967 | 90 |
| 2017 | £90,000 | £122,751 | 100 |
| 2016 | £82,200 | £114,999 | 78 |
| 2015 | £72,000 | £101,736 | 60 |
| 2014 | £73,000 | £103,563 | 88 |
| 2013 | £70,000 | £100,723 | 58 |
| 2012 | £70,500 | £103,767 | 36 |
| 2011 | £78,000 | £117,750 | 29 |
| 2010 | £76,700 | £120,285 | 74 |
| 2009 | £77,100 | £123,939 | 47 |
| 2008 | £93,000 | £152,447 | 101 |
| 2007 | £88,000 | £149,273 | 149 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 123 |
| 2005 | £84,000 | £149,486 | 131 |
| 2004 | £65,000 | £118,053 | 187 |
| 2003 | £41,000 | £75,532 | 156 |
| 2002 | £34,100 | £64,159 | 154 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 140 |
| 2000 | £29,700 | £58,286 | 88 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 73 |
| 1998 | £33,200 | £67,017 | 70 |
| 1997 | £31,500 | £64,600 | 80 |
| 1996 | £31,500 | £66,432 | 150 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 56 |
In cash terms the typical BL4 9 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £175,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 169%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the BL4 9 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 (+58.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.3% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.9% | +4.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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 9 recorded 34 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 141 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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 tenants pay around BL4 9
For renting purposes BL4 9 sits in Bolton. The ONS average private rent there is £883 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £646 a month here against £1,433 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £175,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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.
What kind of market BL4 9 is
This is a thin market: 34 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.
Asked and answered: BL4 9 (Farnworth)
Are property prices falling in BL4 9 (Farnworth)?
Is BL4 9 (Farnworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL4 9 (Farnworth)?
Are BL4 9 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
BL4's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 101 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL4 district, not just BL4 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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.
What another bedroom costs in BL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BL area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 BL4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BL4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL4 0 | £230,000 | 42 |
| BL4 7 | £165,000 | 31 |
| BL4 8 | £205,500 | 36 |
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 9? 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 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL4 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL4 9 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 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL4 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL4 9 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.