Oxford Grove, Bolton house prices

Oxford Grove, Bolton house prices are built from 180 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 14 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £55,250. Across the 16 years from 2007 to 2023 the median moved +20.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -25.0%.

HM Land Registry180 sales86 with floor areaLatest sale 14 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Oxford Grove, Bolton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Oxford Grove, Bolton is £115,000 in 2022; the lowest is £13,250 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £19,500 to £105,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £43,299, so the real change over the whole record is +162.0% — about +3.50% 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: +20.7% in cash against -25.0% 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.

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.

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 Oxford Grove, Bolton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

27 of the sales on record are leasehold and 153 freehold — 15.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £92,150 and the median freehold sale £52,500 — a gap of -43.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 18 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.

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.

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 £55,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 19.16% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Oxford Grove, Bolton sits below that national figure — -64.9%.

Within Bolton the street ranks 2788 of 3171 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £98,000 (-43.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £793 per square metre, across 86 of the 180 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 £5,000 to £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.

Oxford Grove, 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.

Streets nearby

• Chorley New Road£120,000 median
• Chorley Old Road£90,000 median
• Park Road£104,950 median
• Halliwell Road£59,000 median
• Arnold Street£59,498 median
• Belmont Road£110,000 median
• Astley Brook Close£82,000 median
• Royal Court Drive£85,000 median
• Markland Hill Lane£114,000 median
• Ashworth Lane£117,500 median
• Templecombe Drive£152,599 median
• Mornington Road£59,950 median
• Queensgate£50,000 median
• Devonshire Road£118,000 median
• Beverley Road£56,000 median
• Cotton Meadows£191,448 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 87 Oxford Grove5 sales
• 272 Oxford Grove5 sales
• 264 Oxford Grove5 sales
• 244 Oxford Grove4 sales
• 180 Oxford Grove4 sales
• 278 Oxford Grove4 sales
• 174 Oxford Grove4 sales
• 254 Oxford Grove4 sales
• 262 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 172 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 97 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 106 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 110 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 160 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 14 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 116 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 82 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 158 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 88 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 148 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 108 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 152 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 73 Oxford Grove3 sales
• 6 Oxford Grove2 sales

Back to Bolton house prices.

What is the average house price in Oxford Grove, Bolton?

The median price paid in Oxford Grove, Bolton across every sale on the register is £55,250. 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 Oxford Grove, Bolton?

180 sales are on record for Oxford Grove, Bolton, the most recent completing on 14 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Oxford Grove, Bolton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +20.7% between 2007 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -25.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Oxford Grove, Bolton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £115,000, set in 2022. 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 Oxford Grove, Bolton?

£793 per square metre, from the 86 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 14 May 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, “Oxford Grove, 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.