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Bury centre market report BL8 3, Bury
The standing BL8 3 (Bury centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,546 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL8 3 (Bury) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BL8 3 (Bury) came in at £225,000, out of 53 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £250,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,730 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,546 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BL8 3 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 3 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 BL8 3 homes really sell for
Take the 53 registered 2026 sales in BL8 3 and the middle price, the median, is £225,000. The mean lands at £250,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in BL8 3
The last five years of sales put BL8 3 at roughly £2,730 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BL8 3 21% below the national figure.
The price of a typical BL8 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 111 |
| 2024 | £216,000 | £229,652 | 111 |
| 2023 | £202,500 | £222,498 | 95 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 119 |
| 2021 | £193,200 | £244,616 | 154 |
| 2020 | £181,200 | £235,111 | 87 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 127 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 121 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 151 |
| 2016 | £142,000 | £198,659 | 126 |
| 2015 | £151,000 | £213,363 | 167 |
| 2014 | £132,000 | £187,265 | 151 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 109 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 90 |
| 2011 | £126,500 | £190,966 | 98 |
| 2010 | £130,500 | £204,658 | 93 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 85 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 95 |
| 2007 | £143,500 | £243,416 | 179 |
| 2006 | £134,000 | £232,607 | 177 |
| 2005 | £127,800 | £227,432 | 186 |
| 2004 | £119,200 | £216,490 | 236 |
| 2003 | £94,500 | £174,092 | 187 |
| 2002 | £81,500 | £153,342 | 218 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 215 |
| 2000 | £59,700 | £117,161 | 194 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 217 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 177 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 173 |
| 1996 | £47,700 | £100,597 | 117 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical BL8 3 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 127%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 9% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BL8 3 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 (+26.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.0%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in BL8 3
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 53 BL8 3 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 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 98 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 homes rent for around BL8 3
For renting purposes BL8 3 sits in Bury. The ONS average private rent there is £967 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £684 a month here against £1,559 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bury
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £225,000 median purchase price, a rent of £967 a month (£11,604 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
What kind of market BL8 3 is
This is a thin market: 53 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. Against the BL8 district median, BL8 3 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on BL8 3 (Bury centre)
How much did a house sell for in BL8 3 (Bury centre)?
Are property prices falling in BL8 3 (Bury centre)?
Is BL8 3 (Bury centre) a good place to buy a house?
Are BL8 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 BL8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BL: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BL area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
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 1 | £245,000 | 67 |
| BL8 2 | £302,500 | 46 |
| 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 a home in BL8 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BL8 3'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 BL8 3.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BL8 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BL8 3 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.