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Barley market report BB12 6, Burnley
The BB12 6 (Barley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,470 HM Land Registry entries for BB12 6 (Burnley), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 79 registered 2026 sales put the BB12 6 (Burnley) median at £147,000, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £162,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,840 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,470 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB12 6 is one sector of BB12 (Burnley): 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 BB12 6 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 BB12 6 homes really sell for
Take the 79 registered 2026 sales in BB12 6 and the middle price, the median, is £147,000. The mean lands at £162,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BB12 6
By floor space, homes in BB12 6 have sold for about £1,840 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BB12 6 sits 48% below the national market.
A typical BB12 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £147,000 | £147,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £130,000 | £133,109 | 161 |
| 2024 | £129,000 | £137,153 | 167 |
| 2023 | £120,000 | £131,851 | 170 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 243 |
| 2021 | £136,500 | £172,827 | 249 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 182 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 211 |
| 2018 | £106,500 | £141,967 | 194 |
| 2017 | £107,500 | £146,619 | 209 |
| 2016 | £80,000 | £111,921 | 153 |
| 2015 | £80,000 | £113,040 | 173 |
| 2014 | £79,500 | £112,785 | 132 |
| 2013 | £68,800 | £98,996 | 128 |
| 2012 | £76,000 | £111,863 | 96 |
| 2011 | £75,000 | £113,221 | 133 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 130 |
| 2009 | £89,800 | £144,354 | 86 |
| 2008 | £86,000 | £140,972 | 146 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 391 |
| 2006 | £80,500 | £139,738 | 352 |
| 2005 | £67,700 | £120,479 | 312 |
| 2004 | £50,000 | £90,810 | 323 |
| 2003 | £40,100 | £73,874 | 386 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 295 |
| 2001 | £34,500 | £66,324 | 260 |
| 2000 | £36,200 | £71,043 | 228 |
| 1999 | £33,000 | £65,767 | 186 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 197 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 179 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 129 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 190 |
In cash terms the typical BB12 6 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £147,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 99%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB12 6 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 2007 (+36.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−21.8%). 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) | +13.1% | +10.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.3% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 79 sales completed in BB12 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 318 sales a year before the financial crisis and 164 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of BB12 6
BB12 6 falls under Burnley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £622 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £458 a month here against £940 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Burnley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£622 a month is £7,464 a year, which against the £147,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How BB12 6 trades
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within BB12, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
BB12 6 (Barley): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BB12 6 (Barley)?
Are property prices falling in BB12 6 (Barley)?
Is BB12 6 (Barley) a good place to buy a house?
Are BB12 6 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BB12's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 123 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB12 district, not just BB12 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 BB12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
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. 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.
BB area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BB12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB12 0 | £190,000 | 44 |
| BB12 7 | £149,000 | 46 |
| BB12 8 | £147,000 | 49 |
| BB12 9 | £293,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full BB12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BB12 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB12 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB12 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB12 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BB12 6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB12 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB12 6 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.
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.