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Bury centre market report BL9, Bury
The BL9 (Bury centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 23,930 HM Land Registry entries for BL9 (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 2026 median for BL9 (Bury) is £210,000, from 246 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier; the mean is £233,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 23,930 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district BL9 covering Bury centre, Heap, Heap Bridge sits in Bury. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BL9 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
The BL9 median stands at £210,000 for 2026, built from 246 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £233,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in BL9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BL9 sales average about £2,530 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, BL9 sits 26% below the national market.
A typical BL9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 246 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 645 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 581 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 529 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 655 |
| 2021 | £172,000 | £217,774 | 702 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 557 |
| 2019 | £143,700 | £188,356 | 664 |
| 2018 | £134,900 | £179,824 | 676 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 699 |
| 2016 | £126,000 | £176,275 | 699 |
| 2015 | £122,000 | £172,386 | 672 |
| 2014 | £115,500 | £163,857 | 658 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 579 |
| 2012 | £104,200 | £153,369 | 474 |
| 2011 | £98,000 | £147,942 | 501 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 423 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 394 |
| 2008 | £122,800 | £201,295 | 498 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 1,058 |
| 2006 | £113,000 | £196,154 | 1,182 |
| 2005 | £98,000 | £174,401 | 993 |
| 2004 | £92,000 | £167,090 | 1,331 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 1,241 |
| 2002 | £56,000 | £105,364 | 1,207 |
| 2001 | £48,000 | £92,278 | 1,042 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 960 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 948 |
| 1998 | £41,500 | £83,771 | 831 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 739 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 759 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 787 |
In cash terms the typical BL9 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2025, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2025 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BL9 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 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BL9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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, 47% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £334,500 against £127,800 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BL9
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 | £334,500 | 34 | 3,136 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 89 | 7,294 |
| Terraced | £171,500 | 93 | 11,222 |
| Flats | £127,800 | 30 | 2,278 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 526 BL9 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 1,127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 531 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 BL9
BL9 falls under Bury, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £967 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £210,000 median purchase price, a rent of £967 a month (£11,604 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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 people ask about BL9 (Bury centre)
Are property prices falling in BL9 (Bury centre)?
Is BL9 (Bury centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BL9 (Bury centre)?
Are BL9 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
What is for sale in BL9 right now
Everything above is what homes in BL9 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 265 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the BL9 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 BL9 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
Real sold prices by size across the BL area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
BL9 ranks 5 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BL9, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BL9 0 | £150,000 | 15 |
| BL9 5 | £215,000 | 25 |
| BL9 6 | £185,000 | 53 |
| BL9 7 | £183,000 | 48 |
| BL9 8 | £307,000 | 49 |
| BL9 9 | £217,500 | 56 |
How BL9 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 | £250,000 | +14% |
| BL5 | £230,000 | +19% |
| BL6 | £215,000 | +8% |
| BL9 (this report) | £210,000 | +22% |
| BL2 | £205,000 | +24% |
| BL1 | £188,000 | +25% |
| BL4 | £186,000 | +33% |
| BL3 | £181,500 | +30% |
Before you sell in BL9: 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 BL9'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 BL9.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BL9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BL9 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.