Sold Price History


M46 0 house prices

M46 0 house prices are built from 6,291 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +59.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +14.0%.

Median price paid

£110,000

Change in cash, 2016–2026

+59.1%

Change in real terms

+14.0%

Median per m²

£2,672

HM Land Registry6,291 sales52 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026

Section 01

How M46 0 prices moved

The chart tracks the median M46 0 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

M46 0 house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2026
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£35,250£78,272
2000s10£77,000£140,271
2010s10£100,000£141,000
2020s7£167,000£170,630
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for M46 0 is £189,000 in 2025; the lowest is £33,000 in 1998. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £35,500 to £175,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £78,827, so the real change over the whole record is +122.0% — about +2.61% 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: +59.1% in cash against +14.0% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
85 Wardour Street12 Jun 2026Terraced£160,000£160,000
15 Birchfield Avenue10 Jun 2026Semi-detached£196,000£196,000
3 Alchemy Close8 Jun 2026Semi-detached£240,000£240,000
117 Lovers Lane8 Jun 2026Semi-detached£190,000£190,000
8 Albion Close28 May 2026Detached£359,000£359,000
17 Field Hurst Croft28 May 2026Terraced£80,500£80,500
271 Leigh Road27 May 2026Terraced£292,500£292,500
98 Wigan Road27 May 2026Terraced£166,500£166,500
102 Stanley Street22 May 2026Terraced£177,000£177,000
12 Worthing Grove22 May 2026Semi-detached£160,000£160,000
1 St Richards Close22 May 2026Semi-detached£145,000£145,000
83 Stothert Street20 May 2026Semi-detached£261,000£261,000
5 Desmond Street8 May 2026Terraced£169,000£169,000
90 Wigan Road1 May 2026Terraced£171,000£171,000
53 Stanley Street30 Apr 2026Terraced£170,000£170,000
29 Gadbury Fold30 Apr 2026Flat or maisonette£120,000£120,000
APARTMENT 5 8 Shalefield Gardens20 Apr 2026Flat or maisonette£128,000£128,000
2 Colliers Grove7 Apr 2026Detached£360,000£360,000
386 North Road7 Apr 2026Semi-detached£250,000£250,000
23 Green Croft Close31 Mar 2026Detached£315,000£315,000
18 Albion Close30 Mar 2026Terraced£215,000£215,000
12 Railway Street27 Mar 2026Terraced£186,000£186,000
2 Leighton Avenue27 Mar 2026Semi-detached£180,000£180,000
11 Shalemere Court27 Mar 2026Flat or maisonette£126,000£126,000
84 Gadbury Fold23 Mar 2026Detached£475,000£475,000
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 M46 0 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
8 Argyle Street£67,500 (1998)£330,000 (2026)+5.8%+3.1%
85 Wardour Street£37,000 (1995)£160,000 (2026)+4.8%+2.2%
117 Lovers Lane£110,000 (2013)£190,000 (2026)+4.3%+1.3%
3 Alchemy Close£166,995 (2018)£240,000 (2026)+4.6%+0.9%
17 Field Hurst Croft£66,500 (2021)£80,500 (2026)+3.9%-0.9%
8 Albion Close£241,000 (2008)£359,000 (2026)+2.2%-0.7%
98 Wigan Road£63,000 (2009)£166,500 (2026)+5.9%+2.8%
271 Leigh Road£18,000 (2003)£292,500 (2026)+12.9%+9.8%
102 Stanley Street£92,000 (2013)£177,000 (2026)+5.2%+2.2%
12 Worthing Grove£88,000 (2014)£160,000 (2026)+5.1%+2.0%
1 St Richards Close£56,000 (2004)£145,000 (2026)+4.4%+1.5%
83 Stothert Street£202,995 (2019)£261,000 (2026)+3.7%-0.2%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. M46 0 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced2,86145.5%£85,250£300 – £385,000
Semi-detached1,61625.7%£126,995£8,000 – £620,000
Detached1,06516.9%£225,400£25,000 – £675,000
Flat or maisonette74911.9%£94,950£7,200 – £415,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 05

How big homes are in M46 0

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,309 certificates cover M46 0, and their median floor area is 75 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

MeasureFloor areaSample
Median floor area75 m²about 807 sq ft
Smaller quarter, up to62 m²about 667 sq ft
Larger quarter, from92 m²about 990 sq ft
Under 60 m²21.9%287 homes
150 m² and over1.7%22 homes
EPC certificates inspected between 29 Oct 2021 and 2 Jul 2026.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in M46 0

4,539 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1,752 freehold — 72.2% 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 £97,000 and the median freehold sale £157,000 — a gap of +61.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold4,53972.2%£97,000
Freehold1,75227.8%£157,000
New build1,30320.7%£162,950
Existing home4,98879.3%£97,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +68.0%. 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 452 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 M46 0

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 bandCertificatesShare
A4170.3%
B10,4427.7%
C48,23135.5%
D54,16339.9%
E17,66713.0%
F3,7162.7%
G1,0540.8%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Bolton.

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 £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.62% 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 M46, 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 M46 0

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.

10 state and independent schools have a M46 postcode: 9 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Atherton High SchoolSecondaryFree schools561
St Philip's CofE Primary School, AthertonPrimaryVoluntary aided school397
Atherton St George's CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter333
Parklee Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter325
Meadowbank Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school220
Hindsford CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school207
St Michael's CofE Primary School, Howe BridgePrimaryVoluntary aided school207
St Richard's Roman Catholic Primary School AthertonPrimaryVoluntary aided school184
Sacred Heart RC Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school178
Chowbent Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school147
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Hag Fold Rail StationRail0.9 km
Atherton Rail StationRail1.0 km
Daisy Hill Rail StationRail2.2 km
Westhoughton Rail StationRail3.9 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How M46 0 compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. M46 0 sits below that national figure — -30.2%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,672 per square metre, across 52 of the 6,291 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 £300 to £675,000. 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.

M46 0 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

Other sectors in M46

The wider district is M46.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in M46 0?

The median price paid in M46 0 across every sale on the register is £110,000. 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 M46 0?

6,291 sales are on record for M46 0, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have M46 0 house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +59.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +14.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were M46 0 house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £189,000, 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 M46 0?

£2,672 per square metre, from the 52 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 12 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, “M46 0 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.