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Barley market report BB12 8, Burnley
The standing BB12 8 (Barley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,827 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB12 8 (Burnley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BB12 8 (Burnley) is £147,000, from 49 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £184,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,700 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,827 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB12 8 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 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 BB12 8 homes really sell for
Take the 49 registered 2026 sales in BB12 8 and the middle price, the median, is £147,000. The mean lands at £184,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in BB12 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB12 8 costs about £1,700 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB12 8 runs 48% below it.
A typical BB12 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £147,000 | £147,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £120,000 | £122,870 | 141 |
| 2024 | £133,500 | £141,938 | 138 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 132 |
| 2022 | £157,500 | £184,687 | 152 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 193 |
| 2020 | £110,200 | £142,987 | 122 |
| 2019 | £84,500 | £110,759 | 90 |
| 2018 | £98,000 | £130,636 | 121 |
| 2017 | £132,500 | £180,717 | 119 |
| 2016 | £94,000 | £131,507 | 160 |
| 2015 | £105,900 | £149,637 | 124 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 111 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 92 |
| 2012 | £90,800 | £133,646 | 78 |
| 2011 | £80,000 | £120,769 | 78 |
| 2010 | £85,500 | £134,086 | 82 |
| 2009 | £87,500 | £140,657 | 72 |
| 2008 | £109,000 | £178,674 | 120 |
| 2007 | £97,000 | £164,539 | 229 |
| 2006 | £85,500 | £148,417 | 247 |
| 2005 | £78,800 | £140,232 | 254 |
| 2004 | £55,000 | £99,891 | 243 |
| 2003 | £42,000 | £77,374 | 287 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 224 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 224 |
| 2000 | £36,000 | £70,650 | 196 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 145 |
| 1998 | £41,000 | £82,761 | 165 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 125 |
| 1996 | £32,000 | £67,487 | 154 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical BB12 8 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £147,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 76%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB12 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 2005 (+43.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−26.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +22.5% | +19.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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, 49 sales completed in BB12 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 238 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
Rents around BB12 8
For renting purposes BB12 8 sits in Burnley. The ONS average private rent there is £622 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £458 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £940, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Burnley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £147,000 median purchase price, a rent of £622 a month (£7,464 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
The shape of the BB12 8 market
Only 49 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB12 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the BB12 district median, BB12 8 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
BB12 8 (Barley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BB12 8 (Barley)?
Is BB12 8 (Barley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB12 8 (Barley)?
Where do BB12 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BB12 now
The live side of the market holds 123 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB12 district, not just BB12 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 7 | £149,000 | 46 |
| 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 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB12 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB12 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB12 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BB12 8.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every BB12 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.