St James Street, Bolton house prices are built from 166 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £63,125. Across the 16 years from 2005 to 2021 the median moved +98.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +37.6%.
Median price paid
£63,125
Change in cash, 2005–2021
+98.3%
Change in real terms
+37.6%
HM Land Registry166 salesLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How St James Street, Bolton prices moved
The chart tracks the median St James Street, Bolton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2021. 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 | £29,000 | £64,394 |
| 2000s | 5 | £41,750 | £76,056 |
| 2010s | 4 | £89,995 | £126,893 |
| 2020s | 1 | £134,875 | £137,807 |
The highest yearly median on record for St James Street, Bolton is £134,875 in 2021; the lowest is £20,000 in 1998. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £30,500 to £134,875.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £67,724, so the real change over the whole record is +151.6% — about +3.61% 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: +98.3% in cash against +37.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 4 | 22 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £217,000 | £221,717 |
| 28 | 16 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £147,000 | £150,196 |
| 144 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £218,000 | £222,739 |
| 118 | 10 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 34 | 20 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £130,000 | £136,791 |
| 15 | 21 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 149 | 24 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £184,700 | £194,349 |
| 5 | 30 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £127,000 | £137,218 |
| 18a | 7 Sep 2023 | Detached | £485,000 | £524,023 |
| 42 | 15 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £123,495 | £133,431 |
| 98 | 26 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 45 | 29 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £214,339 |
| 88 | 27 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £132,000 | £152,933 |
| 34 | 25 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £81,500 | £94,425 |
| 95 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £158,000 | £199,624 |
| 14 | 7 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 15 | 24 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £134,875 | £170,407 |
| 143 | 11 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| 52 | 13 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £76,500 | £96,653 |
| 38 | 16 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 173 | 27 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £100,000 | £129,477 |
| 14 | 12 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £75,000 | £98,098 |
| 50 | 3 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £74,950 | £98,033 |
| 34 | 10 Dec 2018 | Detached | £245,000 | £326,512 |
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 James Street, Bolton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 St James Street | £87,000 (1997) | £147,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -0.7% |
| 34 St James Street | £45,000 (2004) | £130,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.5% |
| 15 St James Street | £35,995 (2003) | £165,000 (2024) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 149 St James Street | £20,880 (2003) | £184,700 (2024) | +10.9% | +7.9% |
| 5 St James Street | £31,500 (2000) | £127,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 18A St James Street | £203,000 (2003) | £485,000 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 98 St James Street | £75,000 (2013) | £200,000 (2023) | +10.3% | +7.0% |
| 45 St James Street | £70,000 (2003) | £185,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.6% |
| 88 St James Street | £29,500 (2000) | £132,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +4.4% |
| 95 St James Street | £17,000 (1996) | £158,000 (2021) | +9.3% | +7.0% |
| 14 St James Street | £74,000 (2003) | £180,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +2.7% |
| 143 St James Street | £93,000 (2018) | £120,000 (2021) | +8.9% | +6.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St James Street, 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 | 98 | 59.0% | £48,000 | £9,000 – £217,000 |
| Semi-detached | 51 | 30.7% | £76,552 | £10,000 – £220,000 |
| Detached | 17 | 10.2% | £203,000 | £52,000 – £485,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St James Street, Bolton
135 of the sales on record are leasehold and 31 freehold — 81.3% 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 £58,500 and the median freehold sale £95,000 — a gap of +62.4%. 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 | 135 | 81.3% | £58,500 |
| Freehold | 31 | 18.7% | £95,000 |
A further 19 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 James Street, 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 £63,125 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.77% 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 St James Street, 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 St James Street, Bolton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St James Street, Bolton sits below that national figure — -59.9%.
Within Bolton the street ranks 2588 of 3171 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £98,000 (-35.6%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £9,000 to £485,000. 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 James Street, 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
- Moorfield Chase£44,500 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
- 14 St James Street6 sales
- 28 St James Street5 sales
- 52 St James Street5 sales
- 10 St James Street5 sales
- 7 St James Street5 sales
- 121 – 123 St James Street5 sales
- 34 St James Street4 sales
- 45 St James Street4 sales
- 26 St James Street4 sales
- 46 St James Street4 sales
- 33 St James Street4 sales
- 20 St James Street4 sales
- 24 St James Street4 sales
- 15 St James Street3 sales
- 5 St James Street3 sales
- 18A St James Street3 sales
- 98 St James Street3 sales
- 88 St James Street3 sales
- 50 St James Street3 sales
- 41 St James Street3 sales
- 132 St James Street3 sales
- 86 St James Street3 sales
- 124 St James Street3 sales
- 16 St James Street3 sales
Back to Bolton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St James Street, Bolton?
The median price paid in St James Street, Bolton across every sale on the register is £63,125. 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 James Street, Bolton?
166 sales are on record for St James Street, Bolton, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have St James Street, Bolton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +98.3% between 2005 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +37.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were St James Street, Bolton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £134,875, set in 2021. 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 James Street, Bolton?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 5 Jun 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 James Street, 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.