Sold House Prices in Greenmount, Hawkshaw & Affetside

Updated October 2026 · Covers sales completed 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026 (the latest month in HM Land Registry's data).

What are homes in Greenmount, Hawkshaw & Affetside actually selling for? Asking prices only tell half the story. These are the prices buyers really paid, from HM Land Registry.

Area covered: Greenmount village around Holcombe Road and Brandlesholme Road, plus the neighbouring villages of Hawkshaw (along Bolton Road) and Affetside (Watling Street). Hawkshaw had 8 and Affetside 3 recorded sales in the last year, too few for pages of their own, so they are combined with Greenmount.

Greenmount, Hawkshaw & Affetside sold prices at a glance

*The latest months are still filling up. Sales usually take a few weeks to several months to be registered, so the recent count will rise as Land Registry catches up. Don't read the lower number as fewer sales.

Prices by property type

Small numbers of sales can swing a lot from year to year, so treat changes based on only a handful of sales with care.

Where prices sat

The highest recorded sale was £925,000, on Larkfield Close. About half of Greenmount, Hawkshaw & Affetside sales (19 of 35) were leasehold, which is common in this part of Greater Manchester.

Recent sales by street (June to August 2026)

House numbers are left out. Some sales from these months may not have been registered yet.

The busiest streets this year

• Bolton Road: 5 sales, median £367,000
• Watling Street: 3 sales, median £300,000
• Brookside Crescent: 2 sales, median £331,000
• Dover Close: 2 sales, median £391,250
• Heaplands: 2 sales, median £207,500

Chris's view

The headline median jumped by about a quarter, to £427,500, but I wouldn't read much into that. With only 35 sales across Greenmount, Hawkshaw and Affetside, a handful of different homes moves the middle figure a lot, and the average rose a more modest 3%. Semi-detached and terraced homes sold for more than a year ago, while detached homes sold for a little less. Almost a third of sales were £500,000 or more, which reflects the larger family homes in these villages.

What is your home worth?

Area averages are a starting point, but no two homes are the same. If you'd like a figure for your own home, based on what has actually sold near you, book a free, no-obligation valuation or call us on 01706 310171.

About these figures

• Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard residential sales at full market value (category A). Repossessions, buy-to-let company purchases and other non-standard transfers (category B) are excluded, as are duplicate records of the same sale.
• These are all recorded sales in the area, by every agent and private sale. They are not Bowman Estates sales unless we say so.
• Land Registry data runs behind the market. Sales typically appear a few weeks to several months after completion, and the latest month published here is August 2026.
• Boundary: as described under "Area covered" above (postcode sectors with sales: BL8 3, BL8 4). Each postcode is counted on only one Bowman Estates sold-prices page, so no sale is double counted. Streets with a recorded sale in the last two years: Beech Grove, Belvedere Avenue, Bleaklow Court, Bolton Road, Brandlesholme Road, Brookhouse Close, Brookhouse Mill Lane, Brookside Crescent, Dover Close, Greenmount Close, Greenmount Drive, Hawkshaw Rise, Hayfield Close, Heaplands, Hillstone Close, Holcombe Road, Hollymount Lane, Hunt Fold Drive, Kerry Hill, Larkfield Close, Moor Way, Nailers Green, North Avenue, Quarlton Drive, Shepherds Close, St Austell Drive, Station Road, Tor Avenue, Vernon Road, Warwick Close, Watling Street, Whitebirk Close.
• Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Image: Photo: © Bill Boaden (geograph.org.uk), CC BY-SA 2.0 (licence). Cropped, converted to black and white and darkened for this graphic.