BL1 house prices are built from 30,595 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £93,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +46.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.9%.
Median price paid
£93,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+46.4%
Change in real terms
+4.9%
Median per m²
£1,280
HM Land Registry30,595 sales7,526 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How BL1 prices moved
The chart tracks the median BL1 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £38,950 | £86,487 |
| 2000s | 10 | £80,000 | £145,736 |
| 2010s | 10 | £109,950 | £155,030 |
| 2020s | 7 | £160,000 | £163,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for BL1 is £190,000 in 2025; the lowest is £35,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £36,500 to £183,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £81,047, so the real change over the whole record is +125.8% — about +2.66% 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: +46.4% in cash against +4.9% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Grierson Street | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £114,000 | £114,000 |
| 88 Elgin Street | 17 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £125,500 | £125,500 |
| 33 Rydal Court | 15 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £155,000 |
| 39 Horace Street | 15 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £94,000 | £94,000 |
| 10 Nuffield Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £321,000 | £321,000 |
| 11 Cameron Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £120,000 | £120,000 |
| 25 Westminster Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £117,500 | £117,500 |
| 917 MARSDEN HOUSE Marsden Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £92,000 |
| 94 Moss Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £327,500 | £327,500 |
| 72 Moss Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 49 Barcroft Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £247,000 | £247,000 |
| 119 Hatfield Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| 83 Dean Court | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £98,000 |
| 148 Markland Hill Lane | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £550,000 | £550,000 |
| 4 Old Eagley Mews | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £257,000 | £257,000 |
| 7 Beatrice Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £131,500 | £131,500 |
| 23 Radstock Close | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 55 Valletts Lane | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 14 Bowen Street | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 7 Cloister Street | 27 May 2026 | Terraced | £121,000 | £121,000 |
| 3A Easedale Road | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| 31 Westland Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| FLAT 4 HILLSIDE COURT, 2 Hill Side | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 52 Bennetts Lane | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £252,500 | £252,500 |
| 326 Temple Drive | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £209,000 | £209,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 BL1 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Grierson Street | £16,306 (2002) | £114,000 (2026) | +8.4% | +5.5% |
| 88 Elgin Street | £30,500 (1998) | £125,500 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 33 Rydal Court | £77,500 (2000) | £155,000 (2026) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
| 39 Horace Street | £55,000 (2006) | £94,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 11 Cameron Street | £40,000 (2004) | £120,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 10 Nuffield Close | £224,950 (2005) | £321,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.2% |
| 25 Westminster Road | £35,995 (1996) | £117,500 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.4% |
| 917 MARSDEN HOUSE Marsden Road | £133,986 (2005) | £92,000 (2026) | -1.8% | -4.5% |
| 83 Dean Court | £33,000 (1999) | £98,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| 119 Hatfield Road | £22,000 (1998) | £130,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 94 Moss Lane | £89,000 (2001) | £327,500 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 49 Barcroft Road | £44,500 (1996) | £247,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. BL1 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 14,541 | 47.5% | £65,750 | £3,000 – £960,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7,702 | 25.2% | £130,000 | £100 – £1,500,000 |
| Detached | 4,660 | 15.2% | £225,000 | £1,000 – £3,000,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3,692 | 12.1% | £91,000 | £5,000 – £850,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in BL1
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 7,626 certificates cover BL1, and their median floor area is 70 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -7.9%. 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 70 m² | about 753 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 55 m² | about 592 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 90 m² | about 969 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 32.3% | 2,466 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 5.8% | 441 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in BL1
23,010 of the sales on record are leasehold and 7,585 freehold — 75.2% 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 £90,000 and the median freehold sale £110,000 — a gap of +22.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 23,010 | 75.2% | £90,000 |
| Freehold | 7,585 | 24.8% | £110,000 |
| New build | 2,447 | 8.0% | £135,000 |
| Existing home | 28,148 | 92.0% | £90,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +50.0%. 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 3,234 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.
Section 07
Living in BL1
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 417 | 0.3% |
| B | 10,442 | 7.7% |
| C | 48,231 | 35.5% |
| D | 54,163 | 39.9% |
| E | 17,667 | 13.0% |
| F | 3,716 | 2.7% |
| G | 1,054 | 0.8% |
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 £93,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.38% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around BL1
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornleigh Salesian College | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,574 |
| Sharples School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,214 |
| Smithills School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,203 |
| Eden Boys' School, Bolton | Secondary | Free schools | 621 |
| The Valley Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 538 |
| High Lawn Primary School | Primary | Community school | 492 |
| Gaskell Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 472 |
| Oxford Grove Primary School | Primary | Community school | 449 |
| Church Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 445 |
| St Matthew's CofE Primary School, Bolton | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 424 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Bromley Cross Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Lostock Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Moses Gate Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
Section 09
How BL1 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. BL1 sits below that national figure — -41.0%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,280 per square metre, across 7,526 of the 30,595 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.
BL1 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside BL1
- BL1 1£80,000 median
- BL1 2£75,000 median
- BL1 3£58,000 median
- BL1 4£72,000 median
- BL1 5£167,000 median
- BL1 6£105,000 median
- BL1 7£126,000 median
- BL1 8£87,000 median
The closest districts
- BL33.0 km · £76,000
- BL23.3 km · £94,500
- BL45.7 km · £76,000
- BL66.3 km · £127,000
- BL56.6 km · £119,000
- M467.8 km · £102,500
- BL87.9 km · £129,500
- M267.9 km · £94,000
This district mostly covers Bolton.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in BL1?
The median price paid in BL1 across every sale on the register is £93,000. 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 BL1?
30,595 sales are on record for BL1, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have BL1 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +46.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were BL1 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £190,000, 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 BL1?
£1,280 per square metre, from the 7,526 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 19 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, “BL1 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.