High Street, Bolton house prices are built from 286 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 3 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £121,250. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +10.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.8%.
Median price paid
£121,250
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+10.7%
Change in real terms
-18.8%
Median per m²
£1,211
HM Land Registry286 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Mar 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Bolton prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Bolton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 | 4 | £44,000 | £97,701 |
| 2000s | 10 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
| 2010s | 9 | £175,000 | £246,750 |
| 2020s | 5 | £202,500 | £206,902 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Bolton is £246,000 in 2017; the lowest is £34,500 in 1998. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £58,250 to £165,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £126,358, so the real change over the whole record is +37.4% — about +1.14% 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: +10.7% in cash against -18.8% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | 3 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 69 | 23 Jan 2026 | Detached | £512,500 | £512,500 |
| 67 | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £109,000 | £111,370 |
| 59 | 10 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 81 | 28 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 33 | 4 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 164 | 19 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| 22 | 6 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 37a | 6 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 67 | 11 Oct 2024 | Detached | £415,000 | £436,679 |
| 65 | 6 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £108,381 |
| 51 | 12 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £118,377 |
| 69 | 12 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £403,000 | £424,052 |
| 84 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 86 | 23 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 63 | 2 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 113 | 6 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £154,500 | £166,931 |
| 122 | 12 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 55 | 30 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £118,851 |
| 130 | 24 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £229,000 | £247,425 |
| 63 | 9 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £106,590 |
| 82 | 2 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £299,950 | £347,518 |
| 80 | 19 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 71 | 31 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £77,500 | £89,790 |
| 28 | 26 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £190,000 | £220,131 |
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 High Street, Bolton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 High Street | £75,500 (1999) | £270,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 69 High Street | £28,000 (2000) | £512,500 (2026) | +11.8% | +8.9% |
| 67 High Street | £124,000 (1997) | £109,000 (2025) | -0.5% | -3.0% |
| 59 High Street | £66,000 (2016) | £100,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 81 High Street | £18,000 (1996) | £200,000 (2025) | +8.7% | +5.9% |
| 33 High Street | £61,750 (1998) | £250,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 22 High Street | £102,500 (2013) | £165,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 65 High Street | £320,000 (2021) | £103,000 (2024) | -31.5% | -35.5% |
| 51 High Street | £95,000 (2022) | £112,500 (2024) | +8.8% | +3.7% |
| 84 High Street | £145,000 (2008) | £270,000 (2024) | +4.0% | +1.0% |
| 86 High Street | £102,500 (2002) | £275,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
| 63 High Street | £31,950 (1998) | £290,000 (2023) | +9.2% | +6.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Bolton 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 | 215 | 75.2% | £123,000 | £12,308 – £430,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 27 | 9.4% | £75,000 | £22,000 – £175,000 |
| Detached | 24 | 8.4% | £285,000 | £40,000 – £962,500 |
| Semi-detached | 20 | 7.0% | £119,000 | £30,000 – £237,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Bolton
185 of the sales on record are leasehold and 101 freehold — 64.7% 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 £97,000 and the median freehold sale £166,000 — a gap of +71.1%. 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 | 185 | 64.7% | £97,000 |
| Freehold | 101 | 35.3% | £166,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.3% | £49,000 |
| Existing home | 285 | 99.7% | £122,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -60.0%. 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 25 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 High Street, Bolton
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 £121,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.73% 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 BL3 in Jun 2026. 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 High Street, Bolton
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.
33 state and independent schools have a BL3 postcode: 25 primary, 6 secondary, 2 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ladybridge High School | Secondary | Community school | 1,136 |
| Little Lever School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,085 |
| Essa Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,055 |
| King's Leadership Academy Bolton | Secondary | Free schools | 910 |
| Bolton Muslim Girls School | Secondary | Academy converter | 774 |
| University Collegiate School | Secondary | University technical college | 683 |
| St Bede Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 610 |
| Ss Simon & Jude CofE Primary School, Bolton | Primary | Academy converter | 572 |
| Lever Edge Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 562 |
| Sunning Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 526 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Moses Gate Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Farnworth Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
| Lostock Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Bolton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Bolton sits below that national figure — -23.0%.
Within Bolton the street ranks 1341 of 3171 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £98,000 (+23.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,211 per square metre, across 5 of the 286 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 £12,308 to £962,500. 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.
High Street, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Wigan Road£76,250 median
- St Helens Road£68,550 median
- Longfield Road£54,500 median
- Willows Lane£51,736 median
- Hulton Lane£81,275 median
- Ellesmere Road£61,750 median
- Crescent Road£57,000 median
- Settle Street£59,000 median
- Deane Church Lane£69,000 median
- Radcliffe Road£87,000 median
- Lever Edge Lane£75,000 median
- Duncombe Road£52,025 median
- Morris Green Lane£66,000 median
- Beaumont Chase£115,000 median
- Sapling Road£76,000 median
- Whiteoak View£99,725 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 63 High Street9 sales
- 67 High Street8 sales
- 78 High Street8 sales
- 69 High Street7 sales
- 81 High Street7 sales
- 119 High Street7 sales
- 75 High Street7 sales
- 80 High Street6 sales
- 64 High Street6 sales
- 129 High Street6 sales
- 85 High Street6 sales
- 84 High Street5 sales
- 77 High Street5 sales
- 102 High Street5 sales
- 35 High Street5 sales
- 33 High Street4 sales
- 113 High Street4 sales
- 55 High Street4 sales
- 73 High Street4 sales
- 72 High Street4 sales
- 137 High Street4 sales
- 124 High Street4 sales
- 57 High Street4 sales
- 87 High Street4 sales
Back to Bolton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Bolton?
The median price paid in High Street, Bolton across every sale on the register is £121,250. 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 High Street, Bolton?
286 sales are on record for High Street, Bolton, the most recent completing on 3 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Bolton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +10.7% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Bolton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £246,000, set in 2017. 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 High Street, Bolton?
£1,211 per square metre, from the 5 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 3 Mar 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, “High Street, 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.