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Birch Avenue, BL5

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£97,000
all recorded sales
£ per m²
£1,806
from EPC floor areas
Recorded sales
17
Distinct homes
12
Price range
£21,760£170,000
Sales recorded
2001 → 2022
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Birch Avenue is almost entirely semi-detached houses. The median sale price is £97,000, about 53% below the typical BL5 sale. Per square metre of floor space it comes to about £1,806, below the district's £2,337. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; BL5 prices as a whole have been rising. HM Land Registry records 17 sales across 12 homes since 2001 — homes here come up rarely.

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Birch Avenue prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 17 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianBL5 district trend
£0£100k£200k£300k200520102015202020252001: £28,500 median · 1 sale2002: £33,000 median · 3 sales2003: £52,000 median · 2 sales2006: £96,000 median · 1 sale2008: £110,000 median · 1 sale2014: £92,000 median · 2 sales2016: £101,000 median · 1 sale2018: £108,000 median · 1 sale2019: £104,500 median · 1 sale2022: £138,750 median · 4 sales

Median sold price by year vs the BL5 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Birch Avenue compares

Birch Avenue against the BL5 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Hewlett Way£282k · 56
Borsdane Way£256k · 62
Park Road£191k · 98
Manchester Road£180k · 90
Wigan Road£150k · 89
Chorley Road£147k · 107
Church Street£145k · 94
Leigh Road£145k · 80
Bolton Road£143k · 71
Birch Avenue£97k · 17*

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£97,000
median · all recorded sales
BL5 district
£205,000
median · last 8 years · street -53%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Birch Avenue's £97,000 median sits about 53% below BL5's £205,000; on floor space it runs £1,806/m² against the district's £2,337/m² (-23%).

Street and BL5 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Prices by property type

Median sold price by property type on Birch Avenue.

Semi-detached
£98,500
16 sales
Terraced
£97,000
1 sale

Every recorded sale on Birch Avenue

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
11 Nov 202251 · BL5 2NRSemi-detached£170,000
30 Sept 20229 · BL5 2NNnon-standardSemi-detached£110,000
1 Aug 202253 · BL5 2NRSemi-detached£130,000
11 Apr 20227 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£147,500
8 Mar 20221 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£119,000
19 Jul 20217 · BL5 2NNnon-standardSemi-detached£107,000
4 Nov 201929 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£104,500
29 Jun 201811 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£108,000
30 Nov 201711 · BL5 2NNnon-standardSemi-detached£75,000
18 Nov 20166 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£101,000
2 May 201440 · BL5 2NRTerraced£97,000
30 Apr 201423 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£87,000
24 Jun 20089 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£110,000
20 Oct 200623 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£96,000
6 Oct 200313 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£51,000
9 Jul 20039 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£53,000
4 Dec 20029 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£33,000
5 Jul 200211 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£42,000
27 May 200223 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£21,760
14 Sept 20015 · BL5 2NNSemi-detached£28,500

Sales marked non-standardare Land Registry “additional price paid” entries — bulk purchases, repossessions, right-to-buy and similar transfers. They're listed for completeness but excluded from every median and comparison figure on this page.

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More streets in BL5

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider BL5 area guide.

Church StreetManchester RoadChorley RoadPark RoadLeigh RoadWigan RoadBolton RoadHindley RoadGreen MeadowsGlazebury DriveOld VicarageCollingwood Way
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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.