St Helens Road, Bolton house prices are built from 649 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £68,550. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +65.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +19.8%.
Median price paid
£68,550
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+65.4%
Change in real terms
+19.8%
Median per m²
£819
HM Land Registry649 sales145 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How St Helens Road, Bolton prices moved
The chart tracks the median St Helens 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 | £28,000 | £62,173 |
| 2000s | 10 | £67,775 | £123,466 |
| 2010s | 10 | £105,000 | £148,050 |
| 2020s | 6 | £150,000 | £153,261 |
The highest yearly median on record for St Helens Road, Bolton is £212,500 in 2025; the lowest is £23,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £23,000 to £212,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £51,071, so the real change over the whole record is +325.1% — about +4.94% 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: +65.4% in cash against +19.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 868 | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 667 | 19 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 3 Hulton Mount, 701 | 4 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £132,000 | £134,870 |
| 508 | 20 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 829 | 10 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 782 | 26 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| 356 | 30 May 2025 | Terraced | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 321 | 25 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 661 | 17 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 874 | 7 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 587 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £253,000 | £258,500 |
| 368 | 14 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 813 | 14 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £232,000 | £237,043 |
| 611 | 10 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 357 | 19 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 275 | 19 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £145,000 | £152,575 |
| 678 | 18 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £197,500 | £207,817 |
| 334 | 31 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| 470 | 30 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 436 | 19 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £130,000 | £136,791 |
| 575 | 2 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £195,000 | £205,187 |
| 884 | 16 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 788 | 21 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £172,000 | £180,985 |
| 906 | 26 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| 438 | 18 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £100,000 | £105,224 |
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 St Helens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 868 St Helens Road | £42,000 (1997) | £250,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 667 St Helens Road | £29,500 (1996) | £195,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 3 HULTON MOUNT, 701 St Helens Road | £100,000 (2010) | £132,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -1.1% |
| 508 St Helens Road | £32,300 (1998) | £190,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 829 St Helens Road | £165,000 (2014) | £330,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.3% |
| 356 St Helens Road | £22,000 (1998) | £200,000 (2025) | +8.5% | +5.7% |
| 321 St Helens Road | £26,550 (1998) | £120,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 874 St Helens Road | £115,000 (2011) | £235,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.2% |
| 587 St Helens Road | £75,000 (2008) | £253,000 (2025) | +7.4% | +4.3% |
| 368 St Helens Road | £162,100 (2022) | £200,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +2.9% |
| 611 St Helens Road | £26,500 (1998) | £230,000 (2025) | +8.3% | +5.5% |
| 357 St Helens Road | £47,500 (2003) | £160,000 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St Helens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 547 | 84.3% | £59,999 | £10,000 – £287,000 |
| Semi-detached | 76 | 11.7% | £120,000 | £26,500 – £330,000 |
| Detached | 19 | 2.9% | £188,500 | £60,000 – £465,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 7 | 1.1% | £115,000 | £29,000 – £150,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St Helens Road, Bolton
577 of the sales on record are leasehold and 72 freehold — 88.9% 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 £65,000 and the median freehold sale £97,000 — a gap of +49.2%. 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 | 577 | 88.9% | £65,000 |
| Freehold | 72 | 11.1% | £97,000 |
| New build | 2 | 0.3% | £155,000 |
| Existing home | 647 | 99.7% | £68,250 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +127.1%. 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 72 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 St Helens 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 £68,550 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.44% 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 St Helens 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.
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 St Helens Road, Bolton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St Helens Road, Bolton sits below that national figure — -56.5%.
Within Bolton the street ranks 2446 of 3171 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £98,000 (-30.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £819 per square metre, across 145 of the 649 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 £10,000 to £465,000. 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.
St Helens 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
- Wigan Road£76,250 median
- Longfield Road£54,500 median
- Willows Lane£51,736 median
- Hulton Lane£81,275 median
- Ellesmere Road£61,750 median
- High Street£121,250 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
- 385 St Helens Road7 sales
- 296 St Helens Road5 sales
- 869 St Helens Road5 sales
- 487 St Helens Road5 sales
- 577 St Helens Road5 sales
- 230 St Helens Road5 sales
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- 298 St Helens Road5 sales
- 611 St Helens Road4 sales
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- 459 St Helens Road4 sales
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Back to Bolton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St Helens Road, Bolton?
The median price paid in St Helens Road, Bolton across every sale on the register is £68,550. 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 St Helens Road, Bolton?
649 sales are on record for St Helens Road, Bolton, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have St Helens Road, Bolton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +65.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +19.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were St Helens Road, Bolton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £212,500, set in 2025. 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 St Helens Road, Bolton?
£819 per square metre, from the 145 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 29 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, “St Helens 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.