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Barley market report BB12, Burnley
The standing BB12 (Barley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 21,581 HM Land Registry entries for BB12 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BB12 (Burnley) came in at £162,000, out of 242 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £200,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,950 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 21,581 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BB12 is a postcode district covering Burnley (west), Barley, Fence in Burnley. 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 BB12 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.
BB12 sold prices: where the market stands
In the BB12 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £162,000, from 242 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £200,700, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in BB12
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB12 costs about £1,950 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BB12 43% below the national figure.
BB12's median sold price, 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 | £162,000 | £162,000 | 242 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 583 |
| 2024 | £154,800 | £164,584 | 581 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 568 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 740 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 856 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 560 |
| 2019 | £119,000 | £155,981 | 625 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 599 |
| 2017 | £126,500 | £172,533 | 642 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 591 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 578 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 518 |
| 2013 | £98,000 | £141,012 | 422 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 343 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 395 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 400 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 338 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 496 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 1,107 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 1,155 |
| 2005 | £77,000 | £137,029 | 1,017 |
| 2004 | £59,000 | £107,156 | 1,036 |
| 2003 | £47,100 | £86,770 | 1,176 |
| 2002 | £42,000 | £79,023 | 965 |
| 2001 | £43,000 | £82,665 | 926 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 790 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 680 |
| 1998 | £46,500 | £93,864 | 745 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 670 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 567 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 670 |
In cash terms the typical BB12 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £162,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 77%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB12 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 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £84,000 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, BB12
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 | £310,000 | 61 | 4,520 |
| Semi-detached | £185,000 | 57 | 4,731 |
| Terraced | £115,000 | 113 | 11,675 |
| Flats | £84,000 | 11 | 651 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in BB12
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 482 BB12 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 1,022 sales a year before the financial crisis and 543 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.
What kind of market BB12 is
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. BB12 sits 4 of 13 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What tenants pay around BB12
The local authority for BB12 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.
Set against the £162,000 median sold price, £622 a month is £7,464 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
What people ask about BB12 (Barley)
How much did a house sell for in BB12 (Barley)?
Are property prices falling in BB12 (Barley)?
Is BB12 (Barley) a good place to buy a house?
Will BB12 prices rise from here?
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.
On the market in BB12 today
Everything above is what homes in BB12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 123 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the BB12 median sold price.
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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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
What another bedroom costs in BB
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BB12 ranks 9 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.
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.
Inside BB12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BB12 0 | £190,000 | 44 |
| BB12 6 | £147,000 | 79 |
| BB12 7 | £149,000 | 46 |
| BB12 8 | £147,000 | 49 |
| BB12 9 | £293,500 | 24 |
How BB12 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 (this report) | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 | £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 BB12? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB12, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB12 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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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB12. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BB12 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.