Bolton house prices

Bolton house prices are built from 130,098 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £98,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +61.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +15.8%.

HM Land Registry130,098 sales17,332 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Bolton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Bolton is £210,000 in 2025; the lowest is £39,950 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £39,973 to £202,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,758, so the real change over the whole record is +127.6% — about +2.69% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +61.6% in cash against +15.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Bolton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bolton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 31,062 certificates cover Bolton, and their median floor area is 74 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -2.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

90,887 of the sales on record are leasehold and 39,211 freehold — 69.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £91,000 and the median freehold sale £117,000 — a gap of +28.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +31.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 10,733 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bolton, 43.5% of 135,690 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bolton at £882 a month as of Jun 2026 — £645 for a one-bedroom home and £974 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £98,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.80% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

No street-level crime was published for BL1 in Jun 2026 by Greater Manchester. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.

The 2021 census counted 295,963 residents in Bolton across 118,790 households. 61.9% of those households own their home and 37.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

24 state and independent schools have a BL1 postcode: 20 primary, 4 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bolton sits below that national figure — -37.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,213 per square metre, across 17,332 of the 130,098 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £100 to £3,000,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Bolton sits in Bolton, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bolton at 6.2 times median local earnings of £33,008 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Bolton

• Blackburn Road1,331 sales
• Manchester Road1,080 sales
• Chorley New Road1,051 sales
• Church Street1,045 sales
• Bolton Road1,017 sales
• Wigan Road780 sales
• Chorley Old Road730 sales
• Tonge Moor Road711 sales
• St Helens Road649 sales
• Bury Road637 sales
• Plodder Lane609 sales
• Darwen Road549 sales
• Park Road549 sales
• Halliwell Road485 sales
• Chorley Road468 sales
• Ainsworth Lane402 sales
• Longfield Road360 sales
• Church Road358 sales
• Leigh Road357 sales
• Turton Road330 sales
• Crown Lane324 sales
• Crompton Way313 sales
• Arnold Street312 sales
• Victoria Road310 sales
• Highfield Road306 sales
• Willows Lane306 sales
• Hulton Lane304 sales
• Ellesmere Road302 sales
• Dixon Green Drive301 sales
• Threadfold Way295 sales
• High Street286 sales
• Crescent Road283 sales
• Belmont Road275 sales
• Settle Street273 sales
• Deane Church Lane253 sales
• Bradford Road247 sales
• Astley Brook Close241 sales
• Lord Street240 sales
• Royal Court Drive237 sales
• Tottington Road236 sales
• Radcliffe Road231 sales
• Markland Hill Lane227 sales
• Ashworth Lane225 sales
• Green Meadows223 sales
• Lever Edge Lane217 sales
• Valley Mill213 sales
• Brownlow Road211 sales
• Hindley Road211 sales
• Somerton Road209 sales
• Butterwick Fields207 sales
• Templecombe Drive205 sales
• Heaton Road202 sales
• Mornington Road201 sales
• Longsight200 sales
• Station Road199 sales
• Duncombe Road198 sales
• Hough Fold Way196 sales
• Green Lane193 sales
• Morris Green Lane193 sales
• Queensgate192 sales

Postcode districts covering Bolton

• BL1£93,000 median
• BL3£76,000 median
• BL2£94,500 median
• BL6£127,000 median
• BL5£119,000 median
• BL4£76,000 median
• BL7£158,350 median

What is the average house price in Bolton?

The median price paid in Bolton across every sale on the register is £98,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Bolton?

130,098 sales are on record for Bolton, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Bolton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +61.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +15.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bolton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £210,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Bolton?

£1,213 per square metre, from the 17,332 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 22 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Bolton house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.