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Barley market report BB12 7, Burnley
The BB12 7 (Barley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,124 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB12 7 (Burnley) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BB12 7 (Burnley) home changed hands for £149,000 in 2026 (median of 46 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £195,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,990 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,124 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB12 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB12 (Burnley). 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 BB12 7 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.
The going rate for a home in BB12 7
In the BB12 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £149,000, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £195,700, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
BB12 7 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB12 7 costs about £1,990 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB12 7 48% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BB12 7 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £149,000 | £149,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £172,000 | £176,113 | 133 |
| 2024 | £135,500 | £144,064 | 118 |
| 2023 | £163,800 | £179,976 | 118 |
| 2022 | £172,000 | £201,690 | 145 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 167 |
| 2020 | £139,000 | £180,355 | 116 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 157 |
| 2018 | £125,700 | £167,560 | 112 |
| 2017 | £124,000 | £169,124 | 120 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 103 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 103 |
| 2014 | £119,500 | £169,532 | 100 |
| 2013 | £113,000 | £162,596 | 78 |
| 2012 | £90,900 | £133,793 | 70 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 65 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 57 |
| 2009 | £105,500 | £169,592 | 70 |
| 2008 | £109,000 | £178,674 | 96 |
| 2007 | £93,500 | £158,602 | 204 |
| 2006 | £83,000 | £144,077 | 234 |
| 2005 | £69,500 | £123,682 | 189 |
| 2004 | £57,000 | £103,523 | 207 |
| 2003 | £40,000 | £73,690 | 216 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 192 |
| 2001 | £38,100 | £73,245 | 188 |
| 2000 | £40,500 | £79,481 | 148 |
| 1999 | £44,200 | £88,088 | 138 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 115 |
| 1997 | £34,400 | £70,547 | 114 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 98 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical BB12 7 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £149,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 102%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB12 7 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 (+42.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.8%). 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) | −13.4% | −15.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 46 BB12 7 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 197 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 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 shape of the BB12 7 market
This is a thin market: 46 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. Within BB12, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around BB12 7
The local authority for BB12 7 is Burnley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £622 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £458 a month for a typical one-bed to £940 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Burnley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £149,000 median purchase price, a rent of £622 a month (£7,464 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
What people ask about BB12 7 (Barley)
How much did a house sell for in BB12 7 (Barley)?
Are property prices falling in BB12 7 (Barley)?
Is BB12 7 (Barley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BB12 7 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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 BB12 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
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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
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 BB12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB12 0 | £190,000 | 44 |
| BB12 6 | £147,000 | 79 |
| 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.
Before you sell in BB12 7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB12 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB12 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB12 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB12 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB12 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB12 7 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.