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Bank Hey market report BB1 2, Blackburn
The standing BB1 2 (Bank Hey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,379 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB1 2 (Blackburn) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BB1 2 (Blackburn) home changed hands for £160,500 in 2026 (median of 30 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £168,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,750 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,379 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BB1 2 is a single group of streets within BB1 (Blackburn), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB1 2 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What BB1 2 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for BB1 2 is £160,500, taken from 30 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £168,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BB1 2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BB1 2 sales average about £1,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BB1 2 44% below the national figure.
A typical BB1 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £160,500 | £160,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £140,000 | £143,348 | 90 |
| 2024 | £133,500 | £141,938 | 96 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 97 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 107 |
| 2021 | £143,800 | £182,069 | 142 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 91 |
| 2019 | £107,500 | £140,907 | 92 |
| 2018 | £105,800 | £141,033 | 84 |
| 2017 | £98,000 | £133,662 | 85 |
| 2016 | £90,200 | £126,191 | 78 |
| 2015 | £90,000 | £127,170 | 85 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 76 |
| 2013 | £82,000 | £117,990 | 69 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 51 |
| 2011 | £101,500 | £153,226 | 58 |
| 2010 | £96,500 | £151,337 | 64 |
| 2009 | £97,500 | £156,732 | 75 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 69 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 158 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 192 |
| 2005 | £87,500 | £155,715 | 170 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 197 |
| 2003 | £65,500 | £120,667 | 181 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 174 |
| 2001 | £47,500 | £91,316 | 114 |
| 2000 | £40,200 | £78,893 | 128 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 97 |
| 1998 | £35,400 | £71,457 | 108 |
| 1997 | £39,000 | £79,981 | 131 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 114 |
| 1995 | £31,800 | £69,128 | 76 |
In cash terms the typical BB1 2 home went from £31,800 in 1995 to £160,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 132%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB1 2 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+29.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−16.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB1 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.6% | +12.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 30 BB1 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 164 sales a year before the financial crisis and 84 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market BB1 2 is
This is a thin market: 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around BB1 2
The local authority for BB1 2 is Blackburn with Darwen, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £711 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £532 a month here against £1,111 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Blackburn with Darwen
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £160,500 median sold price, £711 a month is £8,532 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about BB1 2 (Bank Hey)
Is BB1 2 (Bank Hey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB1 2 (Bank Hey)?
Are property prices falling in BB1 2 (Bank Hey)?
What happens to BB1 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in BB1 now
The live side of the market holds 71 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB1 district, not just BB1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BB1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £225,000 | £309,995 (+38%) | £460,000 (+48%) | £670,000 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | £149,975 | £175,000 (+17%) | £215,000 (+23%) | £290,000 (+35%) | £383,750 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £97,500 | £100,000 (+3%) | £129,950 (+30%) | £170,000 (+31%) | £230,000 (+35%) |
| Flat | £90,200 | £125,000 (+39%) | £170,000 (+36%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BB area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB1 1 | £132,500 | 23 |
| BB1 3 | £155,000 | 15 |
| BB1 4 | £129,000 | 34 |
| BB1 5 | £136,200 | 16 |
| BB1 6 | £170,000 | 4 |
| BB1 7 | £132,500 | 6 |
| BB1 8 | £195,000 | 34 |
| BB1 9 | £215,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full BB1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BB1 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BB1 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB1 2.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB1 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.