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Over Hulton market report BL5 3, Bolton
The standing BL5 3 (Over Hulton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 8,019 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BL5 3 (Bolton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BL5 3 (Bolton) sold for £222,500 in 2026, the median of 72 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £234,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,720 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,019 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like BL5 3 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 3 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 3
The BL5 3 median stands at £222,500 for 2026, built from 72 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £234,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BL5 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BL5 3 costs about £2,720 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BL5 3 trades 22% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BL5 3 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £222,500 | £222,500 | 72 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 292 |
| 2024 | £248,000 | £263,675 | 271 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 268 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 401 |
| 2021 | £198,800 | £251,706 | 384 |
| 2020 | £177,500 | £230,310 | 228 |
| 2019 | £163,000 | £213,654 | 244 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 220 |
| 2017 | £144,200 | £196,674 | 236 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 202 |
| 2015 | £132,000 | £186,516 | 205 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 187 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 171 |
| 2012 | £124,500 | £183,248 | 140 |
| 2011 | £117,800 | £177,833 | 122 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 137 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 158 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 210 |
| 2007 | £135,900 | £230,524 | 405 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 375 |
| 2005 | £124,900 | £222,272 | 358 |
| 2004 | £118,000 | £214,311 | 381 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 293 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 338 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 288 |
| 2000 | £56,400 | £110,685 | 300 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 278 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 250 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 234 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 201 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 170 |
In cash terms the typical BL5 3 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £222,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL5 3 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 (+47.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.4%). 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) | −7.3% | −9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 3
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.
The register shows 72 BL5 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 342 sales a year before the financial crisis and 261 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How BL5 3 trades
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around BL5 3
BL5 3 falls under Bolton, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£883 a month is £10,596 a year, which against the £222,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
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What happens to BL5 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
On the market in BL5 today
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 BL5 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
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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, BL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 2 | £220,000 | 59 |
Zoom out to the full BL5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL5 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BL5 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BL5 3.
Keep digging
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See every individual BL5 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.