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Blackrod market report BL6 5, Bolton
The standing BL6 5 (Blackrod) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,911 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL6 5 (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: the middle 2026 sale in BL6 5 (Bolton) came in at £207,200, out of 62 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £230,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,560 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,911 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BL6 5 is one sector of BL6 (Bolton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BL6 5 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 BL6 5
Take the 62 registered 2026 sales in BL6 5 and the middle price, the median, is £207,200. The mean lands at £230,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BL6 5
By floor space, homes in BL6 5 have sold for about £2,560 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BL6 5 trades 27% below the country as a whole.
BL6 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £207,200 | £207,200 | 62 |
| 2025 | £233,800 | £239,391 | 184 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 171 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 140 |
| 2022 | £177,000 | £207,553 | 171 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 242 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 203 |
| 2019 | £177,200 | £232,267 | 224 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 201 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 183 |
| 2016 | £136,000 | £190,265 | 164 |
| 2015 | £138,900 | £196,266 | 168 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 151 |
| 2013 | £129,000 | £185,618 | 117 |
| 2012 | £122,800 | £180,746 | 112 |
| 2011 | £116,000 | £175,115 | 91 |
| 2010 | £123,800 | £194,150 | 118 |
| 2009 | £119,500 | £192,097 | 108 |
| 2008 | £115,100 | £188,673 | 163 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 235 |
| 2006 | £124,900 | £216,810 | 213 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 190 |
| 2004 | £111,800 | £203,051 | 264 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 290 |
| 2002 | £77,200 | £145,251 | 300 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 261 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 175 |
| 1999 | £53,800 | £107,221 | 178 |
| 1998 | £47,100 | £95,075 | 188 |
| 1997 | £56,500 | £115,870 | 259 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 209 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 176 |
In cash terms the typical BL6 5 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £207,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 122%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL6 5 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 2001 (+47.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−16.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.4% | −13.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 62 BL6 5 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 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 146 a year over the last five. 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.
What homes rent for around BL6 5
The local authority for BL6 5 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.
Set against the £207,200 median sold price, £883 a month is £10,596 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the BL6 5 market
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.
Common questions on BL6 5 (Blackrod)
Are property prices falling in BL6 5 (Blackrod)?
Is BL6 5 (Blackrod) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL6 5 (Blackrod)?
Will BL6 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BL6 today
Turning to what is actually available: 97 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL6 district, not just BL6 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Silver Birch Close, Lostock, Bolton, Lancashire
- Milverton Close, Lostock, Bolton, Lancashire
- Havisham Close, Lostock, Bolton, Lancashire
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 BL6 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
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BL6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BL6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL6 4 | £245,000 | 49 |
| BL6 6 | £227,500 | 56 |
| BL6 7 | £199,000 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full BL6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL6 5? 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 BL6 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BL6 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL6 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL6 5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.