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Bank Hey market report BB1 8, Blackburn
The standing BB1 8 (Bank Hey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,807 registered sales in BB1 8 (Blackburn) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BB1 8 (Blackburn) home changed hands for £195,000 in 2026 (median of 34 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £177,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,200 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,807 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB1 8 is one sector of BB1 (Blackburn): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BB1 8 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 8 homes really sell for
The BB1 8 median stands at £195,000 for 2026, built from 34 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £177,700, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
What a square metre costs in BB1 8
The last five years of sales put BB1 8 at roughly £2,200 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB1 8 32% below the country at large.
BB1 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 34 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 102 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 149 |
| 2023 | £212,500 | £233,486 | 164 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 206 |
| 2021 | £174,500 | £220,940 | 198 |
| 2020 | £150,800 | £195,666 | 118 |
| 2019 | £156,800 | £205,527 | 126 |
| 2018 | £131,500 | £175,292 | 110 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 127 |
| 2016 | £132,000 | £184,669 | 129 |
| 2015 | £124,300 | £175,636 | 134 |
| 2014 | £129,000 | £183,009 | 89 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 105 |
| 2012 | £118,000 | £173,681 | 87 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 105 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 105 |
| 2009 | £120,500 | £193,705 | 94 |
| 2008 | £126,500 | £207,360 | 117 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 186 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 227 |
| 2005 | £111,100 | £197,713 | 194 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 223 |
| 2003 | £76,000 | £140,010 | 189 |
| 2002 | £58,800 | £110,632 | 236 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 199 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 207 |
| 1999 | £46,800 | £93,270 | 180 |
| 1998 | £44,600 | £90,028 | 169 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 161 |
| 1996 | £45,500 | £95,957 | 171 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 166 |
In cash terms the typical BB1 8 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 86%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB1 8 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 2003 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−9.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.4% | +2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 34 BB1 8 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 208 sales a year before the financial crisis and 131 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.
The rental side of BB1 8
BB1 8 falls under Blackburn with Darwen, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £711 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £532 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,111, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Blackburn with Darwen
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £195,000 median sold price, £711 a month is £8,532 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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 kind of market BB1 8 is
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB1 8 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 8 sits 22% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
BB1 8 (Bank Hey): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BB1 8 (Bank Hey)?
Is BB1 8 (Bank Hey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB1 8 (Bank Hey)?
Are BB1 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BB1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 71 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB1 district, not just BB1 8: 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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"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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in BB
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, BB area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB1's other sectors, each with 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 4 | £129,000 | 34 |
| BB1 5 | £136,200 | 16 |
| BB1 6 | £170,000 | 4 |
| BB1 7 | £132,500 | 6 |
| 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 in BB1 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB1 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB1 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB1 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB1 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.