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Belmont market report BL7, Bolton
The BL7 (Belmont) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 9,044 HM Land Registry entries for BL7 (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 recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical BL7 (Bolton) home changed hands for £272,300 in 2026 (median of 94 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £340,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,990 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,044 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BL7 is a postcode district covering Belmont, Bromley Cross, Chapeltown 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 BL7 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 a home in BL7 sells for
Across 94 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BL7 home went for £272,300. The mean is £340,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
BL7 prices by floor area
A square metre of BL7 home has cost about £2,990 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BL7 trades 4% below the country as a whole.
A typical BL7 home, priced year by year (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 | £272,300 | £272,300 | 94 |
| 2025 | £281,000 | £287,720 | 269 |
| 2024 | £265,000 | £281,749 | 287 |
| 2023 | £251,500 | £276,337 | 216 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 318 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 357 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 262 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 279 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 324 |
| 2017 | £209,000 | £285,055 | 296 |
| 2016 | £184,500 | £258,117 | 268 |
| 2015 | £186,000 | £262,818 | 308 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 222 |
| 2013 | £163,200 | £234,829 | 212 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 174 |
| 2011 | £171,000 | £258,144 | 181 |
| 2010 | £167,000 | £261,899 | 209 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 196 |
| 2008 | £177,500 | £290,960 | 214 |
| 2007 | £188,500 | £319,748 | 362 |
| 2006 | £176,000 | £305,514 | 343 |
| 2005 | £163,000 | £290,074 | 274 |
| 2004 | £154,000 | £279,694 | 327 |
| 2003 | £130,500 | £240,413 | 366 |
| 2002 | £111,000 | £208,846 | 425 |
| 2001 | £95,800 | £184,171 | 452 |
| 2000 | £82,000 | £160,925 | 301 |
| 1999 | £71,000 | £141,499 | 318 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 323 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 329 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 289 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 249 |
In cash terms the typical BL7 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £272,300 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 109%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BL7 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 (+18.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−9.1%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £467,500 against £198,200 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BL7
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 | £467,500 | 34 | 2,943 |
| Semi-detached | £260,500 | 11 | 2,066 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 37 | 3,195 |
| Flats | £198,200 | 12 | 826 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.9% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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, 207 sales completed in BL7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 356 sales a year before the financial crisis and 237 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.
Reading the BL7 market
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. BL7 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
What homes rent for around BL7
The local authority for BL7 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 £272,300 median sold price, £883 a month is £10,596 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
Common questions on BL7 (Belmont)
How much did a house sell for in BL7 (Belmont)?
Are property prices falling in BL7 (Belmont)?
Is BL7 (Belmont) a good place to buy a house?
Are BL7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
What you could buy in BL7 now
Everything above is what homes in BL7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 62 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the BL7 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (207 in BL7), the 62 homes listed here amount to about 4 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
3% 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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BL7 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 is for sale against what sells in BL7
Detached homes are 34% of what sold in BL7 over 2024 and 2025 but only 22% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 22% | 34% |
| Semi-detached | 33% | 25% |
| Terraced | 25% | 31% |
| Flats | 19% | 11% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side.
When homes in BL7 change hands
Take the 1,447 BL7 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: September completions lead with 10.5% of the total, January trails with 5.7%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 83 | 5.7% |
| February | 104 | 7.2% |
| March | 146 | 10.1% |
| April | 89 | 6.2% |
| May | 122 | 8.4% |
| June | 124 | 8.6% |
| July | 102 | 7.0% |
| August | 147 | 10.2% |
| September | 152 | 10.5% |
| October | 112 | 7.7% |
| November | 143 | 9.9% |
| December | 123 | 8.5% |
The price of an extra bedroom in BL
Real sold prices by size across the BL area, straight 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 | £225,000 | £272,500 (+21%) | £316,995 (+16%) | £390,995 (+23%) | £495,000 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £200,000 (+11%) | £225,000 (+13%) | £280,000 (+24%) | £350,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £132,000 | £150,000 (+14%) | £168,350 (+12%) | £195,500 (+16%) | £232,000 (+19%) |
| Flat | £101,000 | £122,000 (+21%) | £163,250 (+34%) | — | £264,975 |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BL7 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BL7, 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.
How BL7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BL7 (this report) | £272,300 | +5% |
| BL0 | £265,000 | +13% |
| BL8 | £250,000 | +14% |
| BL5 | £230,000 | +19% |
| BL6 | £215,000 | +8% |
| BL2 | £210,000 | +27% |
| BL9 | £207,000 | +20% |
| BL1 | £192,500 | +27% |
| BL4 | £185,000 | +32% |
| BL3 | £181,000 | +29% |
Thinking of selling in BL7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BL7'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.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BL7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL7 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.