Somerton Road, Bolton house prices are built from 209 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £105,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +39.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.0%.
Median price paid
£105,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+39.0%
Change in real terms
-1.0%
Median per m²
£1,370
HM Land Registry209 sales39 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Somerton Road, Bolton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Somerton Road, Bolton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 5 | £46,000 | £102,142 |
| 2000s | 8 | £86,500 | £157,578 |
| 2010s | 7 | £148,250 | £209,033 |
| 2020s | 2 | £206,000 | £210,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for Somerton Road, Bolton is £237,500 in 2022; the lowest is £43,995 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £46,625 to £206,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £103,530, so the real change over the whole record is +103.3% — about +2.39% 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: +39.0% in cash against -1.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 224 | 16 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £120,000 |
| 65 | 3 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £222,000 | £226,826 |
| 180 | 14 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 164 | 3 Oct 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 54 | 20 Aug 2025 | Detached | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 155 | 22 Jul 2025 | Detached | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 194 | 20 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £186,700 | £190,759 |
| 186 | 22 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 38 | 21 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 210 | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £205,187 |
| 114 | 26 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 174 | 27 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 196 | 11 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £259,950 | £280,866 |
| 132 | 19 May 2023 | Detached | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 90 | 20 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 242 | 17 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £282,000 | £326,721 |
| 78 | 8 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| 134 | 26 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £248,000 | £287,329 |
| 195 | 25 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 141 | 19 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| 188 | 28 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £97,500 | £112,962 |
| 228 | 6 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £87,000 | £100,797 |
| 219 | 17 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 47 | 6 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £222,000 | £280,484 |
| 109 | 23 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
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 Somerton Road, Bolton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 224 Somerton Road | £60,000 (2004) | £120,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 180 Somerton Road | £51,000 (2016) | £100,000 (2025) | +7.8% | +4.1% |
| 164 Somerton Road | £167,500 (2011) | £370,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.8% |
| 186 Somerton Road | £49,995 (2003) | £120,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 38 Somerton Road | £107,000 (2005) | £230,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 196 Somerton Road | £52,000 (2001) | £259,950 (2023) | +7.6% | +4.7% |
| 242 Somerton Road | £55,000 (2005) | £282,000 (2022) | +10.1% | +7.2% |
| 195 Somerton Road | £91,000 (2003) | £285,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 141 Somerton Road | £130,000 (2010) | £235,000 (2022) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 188 Somerton Road | £48,000 (2012) | £97,500 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.7% |
| 228 Somerton Road | £12,900 (1995) | £87,000 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.8% |
| 109 Somerton Road | £40,000 (1999) | £220,000 (2021) | +8.1% | +5.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Somerton Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 128 | 61.2% | £124,995 | £9,000 – £285,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 30 | 14.4% | £30,000 | £12,900 – £120,000 |
| Detached | 27 | 12.9% | £165,000 | £27,300 – £370,000 |
| Terraced | 24 | 11.5% | £60,025 | £10,000 – £240,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Somerton Road, Bolton
190 of the sales on record are leasehold and 19 freehold — 90.9% 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 £98,725 and the median freehold sale £142,500 — a gap of +44.3%. 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 | 190 | 90.9% | £98,725 |
| Freehold | 19 | 9.1% | £142,500 |
A further 7 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 Somerton Road, 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 £105,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.08% 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 BL2 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 Somerton Road, 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.
17 state and independent schools have a BL2 postcode: 15 primary, 1 secondary, 1 all-through. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canon Slade School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,724 |
| Bolton St Catherine's Academy | All-through | Academy converter | 1,003 |
| Red Lane Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 475 |
| Tonge Moor Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 472 |
| Leverhulme Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 438 |
| SS Osmund and Andrew's R.C. Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 355 |
| Moorgate Primary School | Primary | Community school | 325 |
| Hardy Mill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 316 |
| Bolton Parish Church, Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 252 |
| St Columba's RC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 235 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Bromley Cross Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Moses Gate Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Farnworth Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
Section 09
How Somerton Road, Bolton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Somerton Road, Bolton sits below that national figure — -33.3%.
Within Bolton the street ranks 1606 of 3171 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £98,000 (+7.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,370 per square metre, across 39 of the 209 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 £9,000 to £370,000. 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.
Somerton Road, 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
- Church Street£83,000 median
- Tonge Moor Road£60,000 median
- Bury Road£61,750 median
- Ainsworth Lane£63,750 median
- Turton Road£107,000 median
- Crompton Way£128,000 median
- Tottington Road£128,750 median
- Longsight£125,000 median
- Hough Fold Way£177,000 median
- Bradford Street£65,000 median
- Bradshaw Meadows£170,000 median
- Jethro Street£80,000 median
- Bromwich Street£92,500 median
- Tetbury Drive£92,248 median
- Boundary Drive£112,500 median
- Moorfield Grove£40,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 228 Somerton Road4 sales
- 207 Somerton Road4 sales
- 165 Somerton Road4 sales
- 222 Somerton Road4 sales
- 111 Somerton Road4 sales
- 126 Somerton Road4 sales
- 224 Somerton Road3 sales
- 196 Somerton Road3 sales
- 242 Somerton Road3 sales
- 141 Somerton Road3 sales
- 133 Somerton Road3 sales
- 113 Somerton Road3 sales
- 44 Somerton Road3 sales
- 236 Somerton Road3 sales
- 154 Somerton Road3 sales
- 149 Somerton Road3 sales
- 112 Somerton Road3 sales
- 225 Somerton Road3 sales
- 190 Somerton Road3 sales
- 180 Somerton Road2 sales
- 164 Somerton Road2 sales
- 186 Somerton Road2 sales
- 38 Somerton Road2 sales
- 195 Somerton Road2 sales
Back to Bolton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Somerton Road, Bolton?
The median price paid in Somerton Road, Bolton across every sale on the register is £105,000. 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 Somerton Road, Bolton?
209 sales are on record for Somerton Road, Bolton, the most recent completing on 16 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Somerton Road, Bolton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +39.0% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Somerton Road, Bolton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £237,500, 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 Somerton Road, Bolton?
£1,370 per square metre, from the 39 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 16 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, “Somerton Road, 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.