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Bank Hey market report BB1 4, Blackburn
The BB1 4 (Bank Hey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,840 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB1 4 (Blackburn) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 34 registered 2026 sales put the BB1 4 (Blackburn) median at £129,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £153,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,660 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,840 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB1 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB1 (Blackburn). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BB1 4 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 4 homes really sell for
Take the 34 registered 2026 sales in BB1 4 and the middle price, the median, is £129,000. The mean lands at £153,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
BB1 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BB1 4 sales average about £1,660 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 4 55% below the national figure.
The price of a typical BB1 4 home, 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 | £129,000 | £129,000 | 34 |
| 2025 | £143,000 | £146,420 | 115 |
| 2024 | £128,800 | £136,941 | 112 |
| 2023 | £145,800 | £160,199 | 92 |
| 2022 | £127,000 | £148,922 | 105 |
| 2021 | £124,200 | £157,253 | 118 |
| 2020 | £95,000 | £123,264 | 98 |
| 2019 | £122,000 | £159,913 | 127 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 116 |
| 2017 | £113,200 | £154,393 | 106 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 96 |
| 2015 | £120,200 | £169,843 | 80 |
| 2014 | £93,000 | £131,937 | 103 |
| 2013 | £95,500 | £137,415 | 88 |
| 2012 | £94,500 | £139,092 | 78 |
| 2011 | £86,500 | £130,582 | 74 |
| 2010 | £82,200 | £128,911 | 56 |
| 2009 | £91,000 | £146,283 | 74 |
| 2008 | £93,500 | £153,266 | 101 |
| 2007 | £87,500 | £148,424 | 153 |
| 2006 | £75,000 | £130,190 | 188 |
| 2005 | £68,500 | £121,902 | 161 |
| 2004 | £54,000 | £98,075 | 197 |
| 2003 | £37,200 | £68,531 | 235 |
| 2002 | £33,800 | £63,594 | 184 |
| 2001 | £37,200 | £71,515 | 154 |
| 2000 | £31,800 | £62,408 | 136 |
| 1999 | £34,200 | £68,159 | 150 |
| 1998 | £32,500 | £65,604 | 129 |
| 1997 | £29,600 | £60,704 | 128 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 143 |
| 1995 | £31,000 | £67,389 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical BB1 4 home went from £31,000 in 1995 to £129,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 91%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2015. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB1 4 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 (+45.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−22.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in BB1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 176 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the BB1 4 market
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB1 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the BB1 district median, BB1 4 sits 19% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of BB1 4
The local authority for BB1 4 is Hyndburn, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £640 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £480 a month for a typical one-bed to £933 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Hyndburn
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £129,000 median purchase price, a rent of £640 a month (£7,680 a year) works out at a 6.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
BB1 4 (Bank Hey): the questions that come up
Is BB1 4 (Bank Hey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB1 4 (Bank Hey)?
Are property prices falling in BB1 4 (Bank Hey)?
Are BB1 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
BB1's current homes for sale
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £160,500 | 30 |
| BB1 3 | £155,000 | 15 |
| 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.
Selling a home in BB1 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB1 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB1 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB1 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB1 4.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB1 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB1 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.