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Typical sold price, BL1
£164,000
250 real sales, 1 April 2026 to 21 August 2026. A rough cash guide is shown below, not a quote.
- Sales in sample
- 250
- Cash guide, 70%
- £115,000
- Cash guide, 85%
- £139,000
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on selling in Heaton / town centre: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead
Roughly 54 homes a month change hands in Heaton / town centre, which is enough to price from, though not enough history for us to call a clear twelve-month direction.
Before you accept anything, the spread in Heaton / town centre is wide, with most sales between £95,000 and £344,000, so the closest sold homes of your type say much more than the middle; most homes here sell leasehold, so have the lease length, ground rent and service charge paperwork ready before you list.
Compare optionsA cash sale trades price for certainty, and at a steady pace like this the open market is also a sound route if you can wait; 70–85% of market value is the usual cash range, so about £115,000 to £139,000 on a typical £164,000 home (a rough guide, not a quote), and any offer should be weighed against real sales.
Have the lease details (length and the ground rent and service charge records); an up-to-date EPC; and planning and building-regulation sign-off for any extension or conversion to hand before anyone asks; your conveyancer will say what else is needed.
Hearing an offer costs nothing: ask a cash buyer to contact you, then measure it against the sold prices on this page.
Get Cash OfferOur opinion, drawn from the figures on this page: not advice and not a forecast. We earn from OfferCheck reports and from introducing sellers to cash buyers, so weigh it with that in mind (see our disclosure). We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA.
Key figures
Heaton / town centre at a glance
Sourced figures for the district, each one dated.
Most sell between
£95,000 to £344,000
Middle 80% of 250 sales
Gross yield
6.5%
gross, before costs, illustrative
Average rent
£894 a month
Bolton, August 2026
Planning applications
587
Within 500 m of the centre
Local data
What Heaton / town centre homes sell for
Real Land Registry sold prices for BL1, each chart with its table underneath.
Price by type
What each type sells for in BL1
Detached homes had the highest typical price in BL1 at £385,000, from 33 sales; flats came to £105,000.
- Detached14%
- Semi-detached23%
- Terraced49%
- Flats14%
See the figures
| Type | Typical (median) | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £385,000 | 33 |
| Semi-detached | £248,500 | 54 |
| Terraced | £140,000 | 116 |
| Flats | £105,000 | 34 |
HM Land Registry, 1 April 2026 to 21 August 2026. Types with fewer than 10 sales are left out.
Rent by size
What Bolton homes rent for
Average private rent in Bolton was £894 a month in August 2026, a gross yield of 6.5% on the BL1 median price (gross, before costs, illustrative).
See the figures
1 bed £654, 2 bed £815, 3 bed £989, 4+ bed £1,449 a month. ONS source
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026. The rent covers the whole local area, not just BL1.
Planning activity
Planning near Heaton / town centre
587 planning applications within 500 m of the BL1 centre. Of the 20 most recent, 5 are still undecided.
- Decided75%
- Undecided25%
Planning detail
Planning activity near Heaton / town centre
587 planning applications within 500 m of the BL1 district centre
That count covers every date PlanIt holds. The 20 most recent were received between 7 Oct 2025 and 3 Jul 2026, and 5 of them are still undecided.
Source: PlanIt (planit.org.uk), which gathers local council planning registers. Checked 22 July 2026. This is activity in the area, not at any one address, and coverage and council update speed vary.
View applicationsPlanIt, from local council planning registers. Area activity, not one address.
Contains HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Whatever the reason you need to move on in Heaton / town centre (Bolton), a cash sale can be quicker and simpler than the open market, though cash buyers usually offer below market value. Want to know what homes in Heaton / town centre actually sell for first? See real Land Registry sold prices for BL1.
Rent: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026 (published 16 September 2026): the average monthly rent for all private rented homes in Bolton, up 11.1% on a year earlier. It covers the whole area, not just BL1. Official statistics in development. By size: 1 bed £654, 2 bed £815, 3 bed £989, 4+ bed £1,449.
Gross yield is 12 months of that average rent divided by the BL1 median sale price. It is gross, before costs such as void periods, agent and management fees, repairs, insurance, tax and mortgage interest, and illustrative only: the rent covers a whole local area and every property type, while the price is for BL1, so the two are not a like-for-like pair.
Price spread and sales volume are from HM Land Registry sold prices. Liquidity (sales volume) is a rough guide to how many homes change hands, not a forecast.
Explore sold prices
What actually sold in BL1
Filter by property type and radius around the BL1 centre. Distances use each sale's postcode centroid, so they are approximate.
250 sales match · page 1 of 13
| Address | Price | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, THORNLEY AVENUE, BOLTONBL1 6ED | £152,500 | 2026-08-21 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 81, ESKRICK STREET, BOLTONBL1 3EN | £150,000 | 2026-08-20 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 136, TEMPLECOMBE DRIVE, BOLTONBL1 7TD | £273,500 | 2026-08-18 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 58, COTTON MEADOWS, BOLTONBL1 8GA | £230,000 | 2026-08-18 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 340, HALLIWELL ROAD, BOLTONBL1 8AP | £150,000 | 2026-08-17 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 9, MAPLEWOOD HOUSE, BOLTONBL1 3NS | £61,000 | 2026-08-17 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 75, ROYAL COURT DRIVE, BOLTONBL1 4AZ | £115,000 | 2026-08-14 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 72, MILLSTONE ROAD, BOLTONBL1 5PL | £225,000 | 2026-08-14 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 19, ROYAL COURT DRIVE, BOLTONBL1 4AZ | £107,500 | 2026-08-14 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 10, RAVENS WOOD, BOLTONBL1 5TL | £645,000 | 2026-08-13 | Detached | Freehold |
| 48, ST AUGUSTINE STREET, BOLTONBL1 3JG | £162,000 | 2026-08-13 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 24, WRENBURY DRIVE, BOLTONBL1 7RX | £255,000 | 2026-08-07 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 98, CHORLEY STREET, BOLTONBL1 4AL | £143,000 | 2026-08-07 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 18, RAIMOND STREET, BOLTONBL1 3LA | £185,000 | 2026-08-07 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 11, OLD KILN LANE, BOLTONBL1 5PD | £665,000 | 2026-08-07 | Detached | Leasehold |
| 21, SUNLIGHT ROAD, BOLTONBL1 4RN | £120,000 | 2026-08-04 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 58, MILLSTONE ROAD, BOLTONBL1 5PL | £240,000 | 2026-07-31 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 5, LILLY STREET, BOLTONBL1 3AU | £110,000 | 2026-07-31 | Terraced | Leasehold |
| 18, HILL COT ROAD, BOLTONBL1 8RL | £320,000 | 2026-07-31 | Semi-detached | Leasehold |
| 8, MASBURY CLOSE, BOLTONBL1 7LU | £237,500 | 2026-07-31 | Detached | Leasehold |
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