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Bury centre market report BL8 4, Bury
The BL8 4 (Bury centre) 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: 2,639 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL8 4 (Bury) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BL8 4 (Bury) sold for £367,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £355,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,390 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,639 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like BL8 4 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 4 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 4 sold prices: where the market stands
The BL8 4 median stands at £367,000 for 2026, built from 23 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £355,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
BL8 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BL8 4 sales average about £3,390 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BL8 4 sits 29% above the national market.
BL8 4's median sold price, 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 | £367,000 | £367,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 71 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 70 |
| 2023 | £345,000 | £379,071 | 55 |
| 2022 | £363,800 | £426,597 | 92 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 147 |
| 2020 | £304,500 | £395,095 | 60 |
| 2019 | £276,200 | £362,032 | 82 |
| 2018 | £262,500 | £349,917 | 90 |
| 2017 | £247,500 | £337,565 | 72 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 108 |
| 2015 | £262,500 | £370,913 | 70 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 101 |
| 2013 | £221,000 | £317,997 | 74 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 61 |
| 2011 | £208,800 | £315,208 | 52 |
| 2010 | £218,500 | £342,664 | 50 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 63 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 41 |
| 2007 | £209,000 | £354,522 | 91 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 104 |
| 2005 | £176,000 | £313,209 | 89 |
| 2004 | £166,000 | £301,488 | 107 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 116 |
| 2002 | £139,500 | £262,468 | 105 |
| 2001 | £103,000 | £198,012 | 93 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 93 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 96 |
| 1998 | £72,500 | £146,346 | 96 |
| 1997 | £72,500 | £148,683 | 91 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 74 |
| 1995 | £65,800 | £143,039 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical BL8 4 home went from £65,800 in 1995 to £367,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 157%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% 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 4 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 2002 (+35.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BL8 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.5% | −1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 23 sales completed in BL8 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 100 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 BL8 4 market
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL8 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within BL8, this sector trades 47% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around BL8 4
BL8 4 falls under Bury, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£967 a month is £11,604 a year, which against the £367,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.2%. 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.
Common questions on BL8 4 (Bury centre)
Is BL8 4 (Bury centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL8 4 (Bury centre)?
Are property prices falling in BL8 4 (Bury centre)?
Will BL8 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, BL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £225,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full BL8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL8 4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BL8 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BL8 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BL8 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BL8 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BL8 4 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.