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Bury centre market report BL9 5, Bury
The BL9 5 (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: 3,017 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BL9 5 (Bury) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BL9 5 (Bury) is £215,000, from 25 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £221,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,540 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,017 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BL9 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BL9 (Bury). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BL9 5 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 BL9 5
25 sales were registered in BL9 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £215,000. The mean works out at £221,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in BL9 5
By floor space, homes in BL9 5 have sold for about £2,540 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BL9 5 trades 25% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BL9 5 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 75 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 69 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 49 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 93 |
| 2021 | £222,500 | £281,714 | 88 |
| 2020 | £168,800 | £219,021 | 79 |
| 2019 | £183,000 | £239,869 | 89 |
| 2018 | £173,000 | £230,612 | 86 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 86 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 88 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 91 |
| 2014 | £129,000 | £183,009 | 94 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 72 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 51 |
| 2011 | £122,000 | £184,173 | 49 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 61 |
| 2009 | £121,200 | £194,830 | 58 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 73 |
| 2007 | £117,500 | £199,313 | 138 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 143 |
| 2005 | £92,000 | £163,723 | 109 |
| 2004 | £96,200 | £174,718 | 147 |
| 2003 | £89,000 | £163,960 | 152 |
| 2002 | £58,500 | £110,067 | 156 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 143 |
| 2000 | £67,800 | £133,058 | 128 |
| 1999 | £45,500 | £90,679 | 110 |
| 1998 | £50,500 | £101,938 | 120 |
| 1997 | £52,800 | £108,282 | 112 |
| 1996 | £39,800 | £83,936 | 98 |
| 1995 | £41,400 | £89,997 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical BL9 5 home went from £41,400 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL9 5 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 2003 (+52.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−26.3%). 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) | −14.0% | −16.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 25 BL9 5 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 140 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 kind of market BL9 5 is
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BL9 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of BL9 5
For renting purposes BL9 5 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 £215,000 median purchase price, a rent of £967 a month (£11,604 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
Asked and answered: BL9 5 (Bury centre)
How much did a house sell for in BL9 5 (Bury centre)?
Are property prices falling in BL9 5 (Bury centre)?
Is BL9 5 (Bury centre) a good place to buy a house?
Are BL9 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
BL9's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 265 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BL9 district, not just BL9 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BL9 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BL prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BL area. 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BL9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BL9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL9 0 | £150,000 | 15 |
| BL9 6 | £185,000 | 53 |
| BL9 7 | £183,000 | 48 |
| BL9 8 | £307,000 | 49 |
| BL9 9 | £217,500 | 56 |
Zoom out to the full BL9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BL9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BL9 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BL9 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BL9 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BL9 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BL9 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BL9 5.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual BL9 5 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.