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Blackrod market report BL6, Bolton
The BL6 (Blackrod) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 17,325 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL6 (Bolton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BL6 (Bolton) home changed hands for £215,000 in 2026 (median of 201 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £268,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,680 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 17,325 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BL6 is a postcode district covering Blackrod, Horwich, Lostock in Bolton. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BL6 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
The 2026 median for BL6 is £215,000, taken from 201 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £268,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in BL6
By floor space, homes in BL6 have sold for about £2,680 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 trades 25% below the country as a whole.
A typical BL6 home, priced year by year (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 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 201 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 591 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 508 |
| 2023 | £219,000 | £240,628 | 436 |
| 2022 | £199,000 | £233,350 | 617 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 697 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 538 |
| 2019 | £173,500 | £227,417 | 579 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 547 |
| 2017 | £145,600 | £198,584 | 578 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 600 |
| 2015 | £148,000 | £209,124 | 564 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 518 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 400 |
| 2012 | £130,500 | £192,080 | 349 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 329 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 345 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 328 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 371 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 698 |
| 2006 | £129,500 | £224,795 | 671 |
| 2005 | £126,500 | £225,119 | 577 |
| 2004 | £112,000 | £203,414 | 712 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 756 |
| 2002 | £79,000 | £148,638 | 823 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 713 |
| 2000 | £54,000 | £105,975 | 578 |
| 1999 | £52,200 | £104,032 | 562 |
| 1998 | £46,500 | £93,864 | 527 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 621 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 517 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 474 |
In cash terms the typical BL6 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 125%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL6 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 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.2% | −14.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £380,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, BL6
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 | £380,000 | 55 | 4,784 |
| Semi-detached | £217,500 | 64 | 4,800 |
| Terraced | £179,000 | 69 | 6,780 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 13 | 961 |
How many homes change hands in BL6
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 455 sales completed in BL6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 691 sales a year before the financial crisis and 471 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.
Reading the BL6 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.
What homes rent for around BL6
BL6 falls under Bolton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £883 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £646 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,433, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £215,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
BL6 (Blackrod): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BL6 (Blackrod)?
Is BL6 (Blackrod) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL6 (Blackrod)?
Will BL6 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 is for sale in BL6 right now
Everything above is what homes in BL6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 97 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 26% above the BL6 median sold price.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BL
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BL6 ranks 10 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BL6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL6 4 | £245,000 | 49 |
| BL6 5 | £207,200 | 62 |
| BL6 6 | £227,500 | 56 |
| BL6 7 | £199,000 | 34 |
How BL6 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 | £230,000 | +19% |
| BL6 (this report) | £215,000 | +8% |
| BL9 | £210,000 | +22% |
| BL2 | £205,000 | +24% |
| BL1 | £188,000 | +25% |
| BL4 | £186,000 | +33% |
| BL3 | £181,500 | +30% |
Before you sell in BL6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BL6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BL6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BL6 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.
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.