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Barley market report BB12 9, Burnley
The BB12 9 (Barley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,768 HM Land Registry entries for BB12 9 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BB12 9 (Burnley) home changed hands for £293,500 in 2026 (median of 24 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £361,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,768 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB12 9 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 9 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 9
24 sales were registered in BB12 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £293,500. The mean works out at £361,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in BB12 9
By floor space, homes in BB12 9 have sold for about £2,800 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 BB12 9 3% above the country at large.
BB12 9'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 | £293,500 | £293,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 65 |
| 2024 | £262,500 | £279,091 | 40 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 55 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 60 |
| 2021 | £294,400 | £372,748 | 86 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 51 |
| 2019 | £218,500 | £286,401 | 46 |
| 2018 | £232,000 | £309,260 | 52 |
| 2017 | £242,500 | £330,746 | 68 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 55 |
| 2015 | £214,000 | £302,382 | 61 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 65 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 47 |
| 2012 | £182,500 | £268,617 | 47 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 45 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 42 |
| 2009 | £197,000 | £316,679 | 23 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 31 |
| 2007 | £226,500 | £384,207 | 72 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 67 |
| 2005 | £190,500 | £339,013 | 56 |
| 2004 | £166,000 | £301,488 | 74 |
| 2003 | £136,500 | £251,466 | 67 |
| 2002 | £113,000 | £212,609 | 59 |
| 2001 | £95,600 | £183,786 | 80 |
| 2000 | £85,500 | £167,794 | 59 |
| 1999 | £71,800 | £143,094 | 56 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 59 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 69 |
| 1996 | £78,000 | £164,499 | 38 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 49 |
In cash terms the typical BB12 9 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £293,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 93%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB12 9 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 2013 (+34.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−20.5%). 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) | +3.0% | +0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 24 BB12 9 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 67 sales a year before the financial crisis and 49 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market BB12 9 is
This is a thin market: 24 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. Against the BB12 district median, BB12 9 sits 81% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of BB12 9
BB12 9 falls under Pendle, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £652 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £483 a month here against £1,067 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Pendle
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £293,500 median purchase price, a rent of £652 a month (£7,824 a year) works out at a 2.7% 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.
BB12 9 (Barley): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BB12 9 (Barley)?
Are property prices falling in BB12 9 (Barley)?
Is BB12 9 (Barley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BB12 9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BB12 today
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 →
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. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the BB area, five years
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 6 | £147,000 | 79 |
| BB12 7 | £149,000 | 46 |
| BB12 8 | £147,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full BB12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BB12 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB12 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB12 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB12 9 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 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB12 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB12 9 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.
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.