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Bank Hey market report BB1, Blackburn
The standing BB1 (Bank Hey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 25,402 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB1 (Blackburn) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 215 registered 2026 sales put the BB1 (Blackburn) median at £160,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £178,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,910 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 25,402 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB1 is a postcode district covering Blackburn (east), Bank Hey, Blackamoor in Blackburn. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BB1 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 homes really sell for
The BB1 median stands at £160,000 for 2026, built from 215 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £178,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BB1
By floor space, homes in BB1 have sold for about £1,910 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB1 44% below the country at large.
A typical BB1 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 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 215 |
| 2025 | £166,800 | £170,789 | 656 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 659 |
| 2023 | £150,500 | £165,363 | 622 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 708 |
| 2021 | £142,000 | £179,790 | 841 |
| 2020 | £128,500 | £166,731 | 598 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 679 |
| 2018 | £118,500 | £157,963 | 709 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 673 |
| 2016 | £105,200 | £147,176 | 633 |
| 2015 | £111,500 | £157,550 | 634 |
| 2014 | £105,700 | £149,954 | 586 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 609 |
| 2012 | £102,000 | £150,131 | 484 |
| 2011 | £102,000 | £153,981 | 500 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 520 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 543 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 601 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 1,083 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 1,227 |
| 2005 | £88,000 | £156,605 | 1,060 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 1,175 |
| 2003 | £52,000 | £95,797 | 1,245 |
| 2002 | £41,200 | £77,517 | 1,203 |
| 2001 | £40,500 | £77,859 | 1,073 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 1,026 |
| 1999 | £37,200 | £74,138 | 896 |
| 1998 | £34,000 | £68,631 | 943 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 1,051 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 1,027 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 923 |
In cash terms the typical BB1 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 116%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB1 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 (+34.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−5.7%). 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) | −4.1% | −6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £290,000 against £89,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, BB1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £290,000 | 25 | 3,430 |
| Semi-detached | £195,000 | 79 | 8,210 |
| Terraced | £126,000 | 99 | 12,997 |
| Flats | £89,500 | 12 | 765 |
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
BB1 recorded 484 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,137 sales a year before the financial crisis and 572 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
The local authority for BB1 is Blackburn with Darwen, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £160,000 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.
Common questions on BB1 (Bank Hey)
Are property prices falling in BB1 (Bank Hey)?
Is BB1 (Bank Hey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB1 (Bank Hey)?
Will BB1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in BB1 today
Everything above is what homes in BB1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 71 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the BB1 median sold price.
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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BB1 ranks 6 of 13 in the BB area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, BB area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BB1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 8 | £195,000 | 34 |
| BB1 9 | £215,000 | 53 |
How BB1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 | £257,500 | +3% |
| BB4 | £189,000 | +11% |
| BB2 | £180,000 | +22% |
| BB12 | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 (this report) | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB18 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB3 | £155,000 | +16% |
| BB8 | £143,800 | -3% |
| BB5 | £140,000 | +13% |
| BB9 | £135,000 | +29% |
| BB11 | £135,000 | +35% |
| BB10 | £125,000 | +7% |
Thinking of selling in BB1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual BB1 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.