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Over Hulton market report BL5, Bolton
The standing BL5 (Over Hulton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 15,682 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL5 (Bolton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BL5 (Bolton) is £230,000, from 147 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £253,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,700 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 15,682 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BL5 is the postcode district covering Over Hulton, Westhoughton 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 BL5 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 BL5
Take the 147 registered 2026 sales in BL5 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £253,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
BL5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BL5 homes have averaged around £2,700 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 BL5 19% below the country at large.
A typical BL5 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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 147 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 494 |
| 2024 | £232,700 | £247,408 | 459 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 408 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 646 |
| 2021 | £194,000 | £245,629 | 651 |
| 2020 | £192,200 | £249,383 | 462 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 458 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 438 |
| 2017 | £147,500 | £201,175 | 464 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 457 |
| 2015 | £144,000 | £203,472 | 447 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 397 |
| 2013 | £132,000 | £189,935 | 336 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 301 |
| 2011 | £116,800 | £176,323 | 282 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 281 |
| 2009 | £127,000 | £204,154 | 293 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 357 |
| 2007 | £137,400 | £233,069 | 704 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 617 |
| 2005 | £123,000 | £218,890 | 596 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 718 |
| 2003 | £84,000 | £154,748 | 644 |
| 2002 | £69,100 | £130,011 | 762 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 663 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 614 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 595 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 523 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 552 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 501 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 415 |
In cash terms the typical BL5 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 128%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BL5 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 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £355,000 against £123,200 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, BL5
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 | £355,000 | 43 | 4,699 |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | 58 | 5,304 |
| Terraced | £170,000 | 34 | 4,816 |
| Flats | £123,200 | 12 | 863 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.2% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 BL5
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 344 BL5 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 665 sales a year before the financial crisis and 431 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.
What kind of market BL5 is
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.
The rental side of BL5
For renting purposes BL5 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 £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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 people ask about BL5 (Over Hulton)
How much did a house sell for in BL5 (Over Hulton)?
Are property prices falling in BL5 (Over Hulton)?
Is BL5 (Over Hulton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BL5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BL5's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BL5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 83 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% above the BL5 median sold price.
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.
- Park Edge, Westhoughton, Bolton, Grea...
- Madison Park, Westhoughton, Bolton
- Lee Bank, Westhoughton, Bolton
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BL5 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.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BL5 ranks 6 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.
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.
Inside BL5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BL5 1 | £319,300 | 16 |
| BL5 2 | £220,000 | 59 |
| BL5 3 | £222,500 | 72 |
How BL5 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 (this report) | £230,000 | +19% |
| BL6 | £215,000 | +8% |
| BL9 | £210,000 | +22% |
| BL2 | £205,000 | +24% |
| BL1 | £188,000 | +25% |
| BL4 | £186,000 | +33% |
| BL3 | £181,500 | +30% |
Thinking of selling in BL5? 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 BL5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL5 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 BL5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BL5 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.