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Blackrod market report BL6 4, Bolton

The BL6 4 (Blackrod) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,942 HM Land Registry entries for BL6 4 (Bolton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.

Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in BL6 4 (Bolton) came in at £245,000, out of 49 registered, down 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £343,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,110 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,942 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

BL6 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BL6 (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.

What buyers actually paid in BL6 4

The 2026 median for BL6 4 is £245,000, taken from 49 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £343,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.

What a square metre costs in BL6 4

The last five years of sales put BL6 4 at roughly £3,110 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.

Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BL6 4 sits 14% below the national market.

In cash terms the typical BL6 4 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 88%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 48% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+96.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−38.3%). 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

Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.

How many homes change hands in BL6 4

Over the last twelve months of data, 49 sales completed in BL6 4. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 132 sales a year recently, against 142 a year before 2008. 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.

Reading the BL6 4 market

Only 49 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL6 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within BL6, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Rents around BL6 4

BL6 4 falls under Bolton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £883 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.

£883 a month is £10,596 a year, which against the £245,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.

Asked and answered: BL6 4 (Blackrod)

What happens to BL6 4 prices now?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 35% 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 BL6 today

Bedroom by bedroom: BL prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the BL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in BL6

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BL6's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full BL6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL6 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in BL6 4: what the record supports

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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.