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Farnworth market report BL4, Bolton
The BL4 (Farnworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 13,702 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL4 (Bolton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BL4 (Bolton) home changed hands for £186,000 in 2026 (median of 143 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier), with the mean at £193,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,140 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 13,702 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BL4 is the postcode district covering Farnworth, Kearsley Moses Gate in Bolton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BL4 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 sold prices: where the market stands
143 sales were registered in BL4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £186,000. The mean works out at £193,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
BL4 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BL4 homes have averaged around £2,140 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BL4 35% below the country at large.
BL4'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 | £186,000 | £186,000 | 143 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 365 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 333 |
| 2023 | £161,500 | £177,449 | 299 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 382 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 415 |
| 2020 | £125,500 | £162,839 | 359 |
| 2019 | £117,200 | £153,621 | 416 |
| 2018 | £107,000 | £142,633 | 426 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 457 |
| 2016 | £92,000 | £128,709 | 407 |
| 2015 | £88,000 | £124,344 | 327 |
| 2014 | £83,000 | £117,750 | 347 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 279 |
| 2012 | £79,500 | £117,014 | 252 |
| 2011 | £80,000 | £120,769 | 235 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 251 |
| 2009 | £84,400 | £135,674 | 198 |
| 2008 | £98,400 | £161,298 | 420 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 663 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 568 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 506 |
| 2004 | £68,000 | £123,501 | 786 |
| 2003 | £49,000 | £90,270 | 725 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 745 |
| 2001 | £38,000 | £73,053 | 701 |
| 2000 | £37,500 | £73,594 | 576 |
| 1999 | £34,500 | £68,757 | 461 |
| 1998 | £34,000 | £68,631 | 423 |
| 1997 | £33,800 | £69,317 | 434 |
| 1996 | £32,000 | £67,487 | 449 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 354 |
In cash terms the typical BL4 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £186,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the BL4 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 (+38.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.2%). 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) | +0.5% | −1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.3% | +3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 47% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £283,500 against £100,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, BL4
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £283,500 | 12 | 891 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 71 | 5,644 |
| Terraced | £164,000 | 52 | 6,389 |
| Flats | £100,500 | 8 | 775 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 302 sales completed in BL4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 659 sales a year before the financial crisis and 304 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.
The rental side of BL4
BL4 falls under Bolton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £883 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £646 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,433, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £186,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
Reading the BL4 market
In its area's price order BL4 comes 9 of 10, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Common questions on BL4 (Farnworth)
Is BL4 (Farnworth) a good place to buy a house?
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Are property prices falling in BL4 (Farnworth)?
What happens to BL4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% 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 BL4 today
Everything above is what homes in BL4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 101 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the BL4 median sold price.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BL4 ranks 1 of 10 in the BL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
BL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BL4, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL4 0 | £230,000 | 42 |
| BL4 7 | £165,000 | 31 |
| BL4 8 | £205,500 | 36 |
| BL4 9 | £175,500 | 34 |
How BL4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BL7 | £305,000 | +17% |
| BL0 | £262,500 | +12% |
| BL8 | £250,000 | +14% |
| BL5 | £230,000 | +19% |
| BL6 | £215,000 | +8% |
| BL9 | £210,000 | +22% |
| BL2 | £205,000 | +24% |
| BL1 | £188,000 | +25% |
| BL4 (this report) | £186,000 | +33% |
| BL3 | £181,500 | +30% |
Thinking of selling in BL4? 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual BL4 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.
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.