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Bury centre market report BL8 1, Bury
The BL8 1 (Bury centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,686 registered sales in BL8 1 (Bury) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BL8 1 (Bury) is £245,000, from 67 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier; the mean is £259,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,790 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,686 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BL8 1 is one sector of BL8 (Bury): 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 BL8 1 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.
BL8 1 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for BL8 1 is £245,000, taken from 67 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £259,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BL8 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BL8 1 costs about £2,790 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BL8 1 14% below the country at large.
BL8 1's median sold price, 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 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 177 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 205 |
| 2023 | £228,000 | £250,516 | 173 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 202 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 266 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 133 |
| 2019 | £164,000 | £214,965 | 203 |
| 2018 | £155,200 | £206,885 | 222 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 180 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 207 |
| 2015 | £148,500 | £209,831 | 191 |
| 2014 | £150,800 | £213,936 | 222 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 198 |
| 2012 | £123,700 | £182,071 | 148 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 159 |
| 2010 | £137,500 | £215,635 | 114 |
| 2009 | £132,500 | £212,995 | 101 |
| 2008 | £122,000 | £199,984 | 132 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 309 |
| 2006 | £134,500 | £233,475 | 334 |
| 2005 | £131,000 | £233,127 | 240 |
| 2004 | £124,000 | £225,208 | 345 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 284 |
| 2002 | £75,100 | £141,300 | 286 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 270 |
| 2000 | £54,700 | £107,349 | 274 |
| 1999 | £54,100 | £107,818 | 200 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 233 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 212 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 200 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 199 |
In cash terms the typical BL8 1 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 135%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BL8 1 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 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−8.4%). 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) | +4.3% | +1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 67 BL8 1 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 293 sales a year before the financial crisis and 165 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 tenants pay around BL8 1
The local authority for BL8 1 is Bury, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £967 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £684 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,559 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bury
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £245,000 median sold price, £967 a month is £11,604 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Asked and answered: BL8 1 (Bury centre)
How much did a house sell for in BL8 1 (Bury centre)?
Are property prices falling in BL8 1 (Bury centre)?
Is BL8 1 (Bury centre) a good place to buy a house?
Will BL8 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BL8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 207 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL8 district, not just BL8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 BL8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BL: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BL area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
The spread across the BL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in BL8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BL8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL8 2 | £302,500 | 46 |
| BL8 3 | £225,000 | 53 |
| BL8 4 | £367,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full BL8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL8 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL8 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL8 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL8 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual BL8 1 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.
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.