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Over Hulton market report BL5 2, Bolton
The BL5 2 (Over Hulton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,408 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL5 2 (Bolton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 BL5 2 (Bolton) home changed hands for £220,000 in 2026 (median of 59 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier), with the mean at £258,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,650 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,408 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BL5 2 is a single group of streets within BL5 (Bolton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BL5 2 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 BL5 2
Across 59 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BL5 2 home went for £220,000. The mean is £258,900, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in BL5 2
By floor space, homes in BL5 2 have sold for about £2,650 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BL5 2 23% below the country at large.
A typical BL5 2 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 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £228,000 | £233,452 | 162 |
| 2024 | £208,000 | £221,147 | 148 |
| 2023 | £195,500 | £214,807 | 118 |
| 2022 | £190,100 | £222,914 | 207 |
| 2021 | £178,500 | £226,004 | 207 |
| 2020 | £187,500 | £243,285 | 190 |
| 2019 | £156,500 | £205,134 | 176 |
| 2018 | £136,500 | £181,957 | 178 |
| 2017 | £138,000 | £188,218 | 183 |
| 2016 | £127,000 | £177,674 | 198 |
| 2015 | £139,000 | £196,407 | 184 |
| 2014 | £123,800 | £175,632 | 170 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 135 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 129 |
| 2011 | £106,200 | £160,321 | 120 |
| 2010 | £125,500 | £196,816 | 118 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 112 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 131 |
| 2007 | £128,000 | £217,124 | 247 |
| 2006 | £119,000 | £206,569 | 201 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 187 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 291 |
| 2003 | £82,800 | £152,538 | 310 |
| 2002 | £72,000 | £135,467 | 379 |
| 2001 | £64,000 | £123,037 | 328 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 278 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 274 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 233 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 272 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 265 |
| 1995 | £49,800 | £108,258 | 218 |
In cash terms the typical BL5 2 home went from £49,800 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 103%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BL5 2 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 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.4%). 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) | −3.5% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in BL5 2
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BL5 2 recorded 59 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 278 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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.
What tenants pay around BL5 2
The local authority for BL5 2 is Bolton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £883 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £220,000 median purchase price, a rent of £883 a month (£10,596 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
What kind of market BL5 2 is
Only 59 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL5 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: BL5 2 (Over Hulton)
How much did a house sell for in BL5 2 (Over Hulton)?
Are property prices falling in BL5 2 (Over Hulton)?
Is BL5 2 (Over Hulton) a good place to buy a house?
Are BL5 2 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.
What you could buy in BL5 now
The live side of the market holds 83 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL5 district, not just BL5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Lee Bank, Westhoughton, Bolton
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 BL5 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
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BL5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BL5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL5 1 | £319,300 | 16 |
| BL5 3 | £222,500 | 72 |
Zoom out to the full BL5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BL5 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL5 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL5 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL5 2 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 BL5 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL5 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL5 2 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.