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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £31,738 | £70,472 |
| 2000s | 6 | £47,500 | £86,531 |
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 6 Shaw House | 28 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £98,000 |
| Flat 12 Lever House | 11 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £72,000 | £73,565 |
| 6 | 6 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £100,130 |
| Flat 8 Lever House | 16 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £84,179 |
| Flat 9 Lever House | 26 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £78,918 |
| Flat 9 Shaw House | 17 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £77,500 | £83,736 |
| Flat 15 Shaw House | 8 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £102,644 |
| Flat 1 Shaw House | 31 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £87,000 | £94,000 |
| Flat 5 Bridgeman House | 15 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £92,687 |
| Flat 2 Lever House | 22 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £87,000 | £100,797 |
| Flat 9 Shaw House | 10 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £68,000 | £78,784 |
| Flat 10 Bridgeman House | 6 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £95,583 |
| Flat 20 Bridgeman House | 22 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £72,000 | £90,968 |
| Flat 4 Bridgeman House | 25 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £88,441 |
| Flat 6 Shaw House | 1 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £72,000 | £90,968 |
| Flat 17 Bridgeman House | 24 Jul 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £64,000 | £82,865 |
| Flat 10 Lever House | 20 Jul 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £64,200 | £83,124 |
| Flat 4 Lever House | 4 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £61,500 | £79,628 |
| 6 | 16 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £90,634 |
| Flat 2 Lever House | 6 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £85,019 |
| 2 | 30 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £173,251 |
| Flat 20 Bridgeman House | 30 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £57,500 | £76,630 |
| Flat 9 Lever House | 31 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £86,626 |
| Flat 3 Shaw House | 9 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £46,000 | £61,304 |
| Flat 7 Shaw House | 19 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £45,000 | £61,245 |
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.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real 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% |
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 type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 143 | 88.8% | £37,000 | £17,250 – £98,000 |
| Semi-detached | 18 | 11.2% | £48,950 | £44,000 – £130,000 |
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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 161 | 100.0% | £44,500 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 56 | 34.8% | £36,950 |
| Existing home | 105 | 65.2% | £52,500 |
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 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 £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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harper Green School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,070 |
| St James's Church of England High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,053 |
| Mount St Joseph RC High School a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 895 |
| Kearsley Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 768 |
| The Ferns Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 445 |
| Highfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 412 |
| St Peter's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 411 |
| Cherry Tree Primary School | Primary | Community school | 408 |
| St James CofE Primary School, Farnworth | Primary | Academy converter | 357 |
| All Saints CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 285 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Farnworth Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Moses Gate Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Kearsley Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Walkden Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
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
- Manchester Road£103,000 median
- Plodder Lane£84,500 median
- Church Road£118,500 median
- Highfield Road£92,225 median
- Dixon Green Drive£67,950 median
- Bradford Road£100,000 median
- Lord Street£80,000 median
- Seathwaite Road£90,000 median
- St James Street£63,125 median
- Highfield Drive£77,500 median
- Kildare Street£75,500 median
- Buckley Lane£57,000 median
- Brentwood Drive£82,000 median
- King Street£84,700 median
- Mossfield Road£68,500 median
- Kilsby Close£55,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 6, SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase6 sales
- FLAT 14, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase6 sales
- FLAT 5, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase5 sales
- FLAT 20, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase5 sales
- FLAT 3, SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase5 sales
- FLAT 9, LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 9, SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 1, SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 2, LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 4, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 17, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- 2 Moorfield Chase4 sales
- 11 Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 11, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 9, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase4 sales
- FLAT 12, LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
- 6 Moorfield Chase3 sales
- FLAT 8, LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
- FLAT 15, SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
- FLAT 10, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
- FLAT 10, LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
- FLAT 3, LEVER HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
- FLAT 16, BRIDGEMAN HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
- FLAT 2, SHAW HOUSE Moorfield Chase3 sales
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.