Sold Price History


BL9 7 house prices

BL9 7 house prices are built from 4,712 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £75,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +85.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +32.9%.

Median price paid

£75,000

Change in cash, 2016–2026

+85.6%

Change in real terms

+32.9%

Median per m²

£1,027

HM Land Registry4,712 sales1,245 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026

Section 01

How BL9 7 prices moved

The chart tracks the median BL9 7 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.

BL9 7 house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2026
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£32,500£72,165
2000s10£69,973£127,469
2010s10£87,950£124,010
2020s7£145,000£148,152
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for BL9 7 is £180,000 in 2026; the lowest is £28,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £32,200 to £180,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,499, so the real change over the whole record is +151.8% — about +3.02% 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: +85.6% in cash against +32.9% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
17 Benson Street29 Jun 2026Terraced£170,000£170,000
94 Prettywood19 Jun 2026Terraced£210,000£210,000
286 Rochdale Old Road15 Jun 2026Semi-detached£252,000£252,000
52 Lord Street8 Jun 2026Terraced£130,000£130,000
1 Bridge Hall Fold26 May 2026Terraced£475,000£475,000
259 Bury Old Road22 May 2026Terraced£286,000£286,000
56 Willow Street20 May 2026Semi-detached£195,000£195,000
23 Fairfield Drive13 May 2026Semi-detached£192,000£192,000
23 Birchfield Avenue8 May 2026Terraced£190,000£190,000
10 Maxwell Street1 May 2026Terraced£155,000£155,000
27 Inglewood Close29 Apr 2026Semi-detached£250,000£250,000
4 Poplar Avenue29 Apr 2026Semi-detached£146,000£146,000
49 Inglewood Close17 Apr 2026Semi-detached£250,000£250,000
30 Cherry Avenue13 Apr 2026Terraced£193,000£193,000
25 Birchfield Avenue13 Apr 2026Terraced£165,000£165,000
9 Holden Avenue10 Apr 2026Semi-detached£269,995£269,995
36 Pear Avenue2 Apr 2026Semi-detached£215,000£215,000
17 Bury & Rochdale Old Road30 Mar 2026Detached£650,000£650,000
9 Greengate Close27 Mar 2026Semi-detached£220,000£220,000
6 Elm Street26 Mar 2026Terraced£190,000£190,000
28 Rowan Drive24 Mar 2026Terraced£180,000£180,000
17 Fletcher Street24 Mar 2026Terraced£123,000£123,000
143 Rochdale Old Road20 Mar 2026Semi-detached£264,000£264,000
399 Rochdale Old Road20 Mar 2026Terraced£134,000£134,000
43 Rectory Lane6 Mar 2026Semi-detached£184,950£184,950
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 BL9 7 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
17 Benson Street£13,000 (1999)£170,000 (2026)+10.0%+7.1%
94 Prettywood£110,000 (2009)£210,000 (2026)+3.9%+0.9%
286 Rochdale Old Road£47,000 (2001)£252,000 (2026)+6.9%+4.1%
2 Hazel Avenue£74,950 (2003)£265,000 (2026)+5.6%+2.8%
2 Chestnut Avenue£90,000 (2017)£225,000 (2026)+10.7%+7.0%
52 Lord Street£107,000 (2006)£130,000 (2026)+1.0%-1.9%
259 Bury Old Road£175,000 (2007)£286,000 (2026)+2.6%-0.3%
56 Willow Street£51,000 (2016)£195,000 (2026)+14.4%+10.6%
23 Birchfield Avenue£71,000 (2003)£190,000 (2026)+4.4%+1.5%
27 Inglewood Close£55,500 (1998)£250,000 (2026)+5.5%+2.8%
4 Poplar Avenue£95,000 (2018)£146,000 (2026)+5.5%+1.8%
49 Inglewood Close£57,500 (1998)£250,000 (2026)+5.4%+2.7%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. BL9 7 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced3,10866.0%£64,000£305 – £475,000
Semi-detached1,07322.8%£95,000£8,000 – £800,000
Detached3567.6%£155,000£22,500 – £1,200,000
Flat or maisonette1753.7%£63,450£7,200 – £320,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 05

How big homes are in BL9 7

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,340 certificates cover BL9 7, and their median floor area is 71 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -6.6%. 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.

MeasureFloor areaSample
Median floor area71 m²about 764 sq ft
Smaller quarter, up to58 m²about 624 sq ft
Larger quarter, from83 m²about 893 sq ft
Under 60 m²26.7%358 homes
150 m² and over2.7%36 homes
EPC certificates inspected between 18 Feb 2021 and 29 Jun 2026.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in BL9 7

3,734 of the sales on record are leasehold and 978 freehold — 79.2% 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 £70,000 and the median freehold sale £92,000 — a gap of +31.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold3,73479.2%£70,000
Freehold97820.8%£92,000
New build3417.2%£76,500
Existing home4,37192.8%£75,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +2.0%. 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 409 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 BL9 7

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bury, 38.3% of 91,222 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A4020.4%
B5,3625.9%
C29,13331.9%
D39,77243.6%
E13,25114.5%
F2,6042.9%
G6980.8%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Bury.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bury at £968 a month as of Jun 2026 — £685 for a one-bedroom home and £1,063 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £75,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.49% 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 BL9 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 BL9 7

The 2021 census counted 193,851 residents in Bury across 80,696 households. 67.3% of those households own their home and 32.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

26 state and independent schools have a BL9 postcode: 18 primary, 5 secondary, 2 16 plus, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary AcademySecondaryAcademy sponsor led1,027
Unsworth AcademySecondaryAcademy sponsor led953
Bury Church of England High SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter802
Hazel Wood High SchoolSecondaryAcademy sponsor led671
East Ward Community Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter474
St Luke's CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school465
St Thomas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter459
St John with St Mark CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school357
St Joseph and St Bede RC Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter342
Chesham Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy sponsor led293
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Bury (Manchester Metrolink)Metro or underground0.7 km
Bury (Manchester Metrolink)Metro or underground0.7 km
Bury Interchange (Manchester Metrolink)Tram0.7 km
Bury Bolton Street (East Lancashire Railway)Metro or underground0.8 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How BL9 7 compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. BL9 7 sits below that national figure — -52.4%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,027 per square metre, across 1,245 of the 4,712 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 £305 to £1,200,000. 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.

BL9 7 sits in Bury, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bury at 7.1 times median local earnings of £34,968 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

Other sectors in BL9

The wider district is BL9.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in BL9 7?

The median price paid in BL9 7 across every sale on the register is £75,000. 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 BL9 7?

4,712 sales are on record for BL9 7, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have BL9 7 house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +85.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +32.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were BL9 7 house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £180,000, set in 2026. 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 BL9 7?

£1,027 per square metre, from the 1,245 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 29 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, “BL9 7 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.