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Bury centre market report BL8, Bury
The standing BL8 (Bury centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 19,317 HM Land Registry entries for BL8 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BL8 (Bury) came in at £250,000, out of 189 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £276,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 19,317 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BL8 is a postcode district covering Bury centre, Brandlesholme, Greenmount in Bury. 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 BL8 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.
The going rate for a home in BL8
Across 189 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BL8 home went for £250,000. The mean is £276,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BL8
Per square metre, BL8 homes have averaged around £2,880 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BL8 12% below the national figure.
BL8'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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 189 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 500 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 511 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 441 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 590 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 748 |
| 2020 | £199,500 | £258,855 | 406 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 589 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 571 |
| 2017 | £159,000 | £216,860 | 561 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 598 |
| 2015 | £156,000 | £220,428 | 585 |
| 2014 | £154,000 | £218,476 | 643 |
| 2013 | £137,200 | £197,417 | 530 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 413 |
| 2011 | £140,500 | £212,101 | 448 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 381 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 339 |
| 2008 | £136,000 | £222,933 | 381 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 762 |
| 2006 | £140,200 | £243,369 | 852 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 687 |
| 2004 | £124,000 | £225,208 | 957 |
| 2003 | £97,500 | £179,619 | 853 |
| 2002 | £83,700 | £157,481 | 860 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 851 |
| 2000 | £62,800 | £123,245 | 784 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 751 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 712 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 664 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 541 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 619 |
In cash terms the typical BL8 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 135%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% 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 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 (+27.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−6.3%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £381,000 against £132,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, BL8
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 | £381,000 | 58 | 5,164 |
| Semi-detached | £267,000 | 50 | 6,174 |
| Terraced | £186,000 | 72 | 7,156 |
| Flats | £132,000 | 9 | 823 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
Month by month, five years back
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, 398 sales completed in BL8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 826 sales a year before the financial crisis and 446 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
For renting purposes BL8 sits in Bury. The ONS average private rent there is £967 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £967 a month (£11,604 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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 is
BL8 sits 3 of 10 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: BL8 (Bury centre)
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Are property prices falling in BL8 (Bury centre)?
What happens to BL8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BL8 now
Everything above is what homes in BL8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 207 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the BL8 median sold price.
29% 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 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BL8 ranks 8 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.
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.
Inside BL8, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL8 1 | £245,000 | 67 |
| BL8 2 | £302,500 | 46 |
| BL8 3 | £225,000 | 53 |
| BL8 4 | £367,000 | 23 |
How BL8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BL7 | £305,000 | +17% |
| BL0 | £262,500 | +12% |
| BL8 (this report) | £250,000 | +14% |
| BL5 | £230,000 | +19% |
| BL6 | £215,000 | +8% |
| BL9 | £210,000 | +22% |
| BL2 | £205,000 | +24% |
| BL1 | £188,000 | +25% |
| BL4 | £186,000 | +33% |
| BL3 | £181,500 | +30% |
Before you sell in BL8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BL8'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.
Estate agents working BL8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BL8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BL8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BL8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.