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Bury centre market report BL8 2, Bury
The BL8 2 (Bury centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,446 HM Land Registry entries for BL8 2 (Bury), 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: 46 registered 2026 sales put the BL8 2 (Bury) median at £302,500, up 36% on five years earlier, with a mean of £292,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,850 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,446 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BL8 2 is a single group of streets within BL8 (Bury), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BL8 2 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 BL8 2 sells for
The BL8 2 median stands at £302,500 for 2026, built from 46 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £292,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BL8 2 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put BL8 2 at roughly £2,850 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, BL8 2 sits 6% above the national market.
The price of a typical BL8 2 home, 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 | £302,500 | £302,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 141 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 125 |
| 2023 | £249,000 | £273,590 | 118 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 177 |
| 2021 | £222,000 | £281,081 | 181 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 126 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 177 |
| 2018 | £182,800 | £243,676 | 138 |
| 2017 | £169,000 | £230,499 | 158 |
| 2016 | £166,000 | £232,236 | 157 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 157 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 169 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 149 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 114 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 139 |
| 2010 | £156,300 | £245,119 | 124 |
| 2009 | £133,400 | £214,442 | 90 |
| 2008 | £141,400 | £231,784 | 113 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 183 |
| 2006 | £144,500 | £250,834 | 237 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 172 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 269 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 266 |
| 2002 | £82,500 | £155,223 | 251 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 273 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 223 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 238 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 206 |
| 1997 | £50,800 | £104,181 | 188 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 150 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 191 |
In cash terms the typical BL8 2 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £302,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 178%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the BL8 2 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 2005 (+27.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−10.0%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.0% | +5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.4% | +1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.2% | +2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 46 BL8 2 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 234 sales a year before the financial crisis and 121 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.
What tenants pay around BL8 2
For renting purposes BL8 2 sits in Bury. The ONS average private rent there is £967 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £684 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,559, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bury
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £302,500 median purchase price, a rent of £967 a month (£11,604 a year) works out at a 3.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the BL8 2 market
This is a thin market: 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within BL8, this sector trades 21% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about BL8 2 (Bury centre)
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What happens to BL8 2 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BL8 today
Turning to what is actually available: 207 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL8 district, not just BL8 2: 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BL: the cost
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 | — | £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. 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.
BL area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BL8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BL8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL8 1 | £245,000 | 67 |
| 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 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL8 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL8 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL8 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BL8 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL8 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BL8 2 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.