Sold Price History


Moorfield Chase, Bolton house prices

Moorfield Chase, Bolton house prices are built from 161 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 28 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £44,500. Across the 10 years from 1997 to 2007 the median moved +115.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +77.0%.

Median price paid

£44,500

Change in cash, 1997–2007

+115.8%

Change in real terms

+77.0%

Median per m²

£925

HM Land Registry161 sales44 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Jan 2026

Section 01

How Moorfield Chase, Bolton prices moved

The chart tracks the median Moorfield Chase, Bolton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2007. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

Moorfield Chase, Bolton house prices by year, median price paid 1996 to 2007
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
1990s2£31,738£70,472
2000s6£47,500£86,531
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Moorfield Chase, Bolton is £68,500 in 2007; the lowest is £31,738 in 1997. Across the full 12-year record the cash median has moved from £36,950 to £68,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £80,153, so the real change over the whole record is +48.6% — about +3.67% 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: +115.8% in cash against +77.0% 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
Flat 6 Shaw House28 Jan 2026Flat or maisonette£98,000£98,000
Flat 12 Lever House11 Aug 2025Flat or maisonette£72,000£73,565
66 May 2025Flat or maisonette£98,000£100,130
Flat 8 Lever House16 Feb 2024Flat or maisonette£80,000£84,179
Flat 9 Lever House26 Jan 2024Flat or maisonette£75,000£78,918
Flat 9 Shaw House17 Nov 2023Flat or maisonette£77,500£83,736
Flat 15 Shaw House8 Sep 2023Flat or maisonette£95,000£102,644
Flat 1 Shaw House31 Mar 2023Flat or maisonette£87,000£94,000
Flat 5 Bridgeman House15 Dec 2022Flat or maisonette£80,000£92,687
Flat 2 Lever House22 Sep 2022Flat or maisonette£87,000£100,797
Flat 9 Shaw House10 Jan 2022Flat or maisonette£68,000£78,784
Flat 10 Bridgeman House6 Jan 2022Flat or maisonette£82,500£95,583
Flat 20 Bridgeman House22 Oct 2021Flat or maisonette£72,000£90,968
Flat 4 Bridgeman House25 Jun 2021Flat or maisonette£70,000£88,441
Flat 6 Shaw House1 Feb 2021Flat or maisonette£72,000£90,968
Flat 17 Bridgeman House24 Jul 2020Flat or maisonette£64,000£82,865
Flat 10 Lever House20 Jul 2020Flat or maisonette£64,200£83,124
Flat 4 Lever House4 Feb 2020Flat or maisonette£61,500£79,628
616 Jan 2020Flat or maisonette£70,000£90,634
Flat 2 Lever House6 Aug 2019Flat or maisonette£65,000£85,019
230 Nov 2018Semi-detached£130,000£173,251
Flat 20 Bridgeman House30 Nov 2018Flat or maisonette£57,500£76,630
Flat 9 Lever House31 Aug 2018Flat or maisonette£65,000£86,626
Flat 3 Shaw House9 Mar 2018Flat or maisonette£46,000£61,304
Flat 7 Shaw House19 May 2017Flat or maisonette£45,000£61,245
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 Moorfield Chase, Bolton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 6 SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase£31,525 (1997)£98,000 (2026)+4.0%+1.3%
FLAT 12 LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase£36,950 (1996)£72,000 (2025)+2.3%-0.3%
6 Moorfield Chase£36,450 (1996)£98,000 (2025)+3.5%+0.8%
FLAT 8 LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase£31,521 (1997)£80,000 (2024)+3.5%+0.9%
FLAT 9 LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase£32,950 (1996)£75,000 (2024)+3.0%+0.4%
FLAT 9 SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase£27,950 (1996)£77,500 (2023)+3.8%+1.2%
FLAT 15 SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase£36,950 (1996)£95,000 (2023)+3.6%+0.9%
FLAT 1 SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase£36,950 (1996)£87,000 (2023)+3.2%+0.6%
FLAT 5 BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase£36,950 (1996)£80,000 (2022)+3.0%+0.6%
FLAT 2 LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase£31,500 (1997)£87,000 (2022)+4.1%+1.7%
FLAT 10 BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase£32,950 (1997)£82,500 (2022)+3.7%+1.3%
FLAT 20 BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase£36,950 (1996)£72,000 (2021)+2.7%+0.5%
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. Moorfield Chase, Bolton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette14388.8%£37,000£17,250 – £98,000
Semi-detached1811.2%£48,950£44,000 – £130,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Moorfield Chase, Bolton

161 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold161100.0%£44,500
Freehold00.0%
New build5634.8%£36,950
Existing home10565.2%£52,500
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -29.6%. 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 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 Moorfield Chase, 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 bandCertificatesShare
A4170.3%
B10,4427.7%
C48,23135.5%
D54,16339.9%
E17,66713.0%
F3,7162.7%
G1,0540.8%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Bolton.

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 £44,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 23.78% 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.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BL4, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.

Against the 295,963 residents the 2021 census counted in Bolton, that is 0.00 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around Moorfield Chase, 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.

19 state and independent schools have a BL4 postcode: 13 primary, 4 secondary, 2 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Harper Green SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,070
St James's Church of England High SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,053
Mount St Joseph RC High School a Voluntary AcademySecondaryAcademy converter895
Kearsley AcademySecondaryAcademy sponsor led768
The Ferns Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy sponsor led445
Highfield Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school412
St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school411
Cherry Tree Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school408
St James CofE Primary School, FarnworthPrimaryAcademy converter357
All Saints CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school285
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Farnworth Rail StationRail1.0 km
Moses Gate Rail StationRail1.1 km
Kearsley Rail StationRail1.8 km
Walkden Rail StationRail3.0 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Moorfield Chase, Bolton compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Moorfield Chase, Bolton sits below that national figure — -71.7%.

Within Bolton the street ranks 2982 of 3171 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £98,000 (-54.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £925 per square metre, across 44 of the 161 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 £17,250 to £130,000. 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.

Moorfield Chase, 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Bolton house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Moorfield Chase, Bolton?

The median price paid in Moorfield Chase, Bolton across every sale on the register is £44,500. 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 Moorfield Chase, Bolton?

161 sales are on record for Moorfield Chase, Bolton, the most recent completing on 28 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Moorfield Chase, Bolton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +115.8% between 1997 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +77.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Moorfield Chase, Bolton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £68,500, set in 2007. 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 Moorfield Chase, Bolton?

£925 per square metre, from the 44 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 28 Jan 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, “Moorfield Chase, 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.