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Brogden market report BB18 5, Barnoldswick
The BB18 5 (Brogden) 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: 5,350 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB18 5 (Barnoldswick) 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BB18 5 (Barnoldswick) came in at £159,000, out of 52 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £181,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,350 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BB18 5 is a single group of streets within BB18 (Barnoldswick), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB18 5 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 BB18 5 homes really sell for
Across 52 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB18 5 home went for £159,000. The mean is £181,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BB18 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of BB18 5 home has cost about £2,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB18 5 44% below the country at large.
A typical BB18 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £159,000 | £159,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £155,000 | £158,707 | 151 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 166 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 137 |
| 2022 | £142,000 | £166,511 | 181 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 212 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 121 |
| 2019 | £129,000 | £169,088 | 157 |
| 2018 | £116,000 | £154,630 | 183 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 178 |
| 2016 | £122,000 | £170,679 | 169 |
| 2015 | £102,500 | £144,833 | 154 |
| 2014 | £98,500 | £139,739 | 150 |
| 2013 | £95,500 | £137,415 | 133 |
| 2012 | £112,000 | £164,850 | 101 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 113 |
| 2010 | £103,500 | £162,315 | 95 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 96 |
| 2008 | £108,000 | £177,035 | 107 |
| 2007 | £114,500 | £194,224 | 258 |
| 2006 | £101,200 | £175,670 | 292 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 175 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 250 |
| 2003 | £68,000 | £125,272 | 256 |
| 2002 | £42,300 | £79,587 | 247 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 217 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 233 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 225 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 151 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 137 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 128 |
| 1995 | £35,400 | £76,954 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical BB18 5 home went from £35,400 in 1995 to £159,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB18 5 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 2003 (+60.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−14.7%). 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) | +2.6% | +0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in BB18 5
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 register shows 52 BB18 5 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 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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.
What tenants pay around BB18 5
For renting purposes BB18 5 sits in Pendle. The ONS average private rent there is £652 a month (May 2026). 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 £159,000 median purchase price, a rent of £652 a month (£7,824 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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 BB18 5 market
This is a thin market: 52 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.
What people ask about BB18 5 (Brogden)
Is BB18 5 (Brogden) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB18 5 (Brogden)?
Are property prices falling in BB18 5 (Brogden)?
What happens to BB18 5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
BB18's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 132 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB18 district, not just BB18 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 13% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 BB18 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, BB area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB18 6 | £165,000 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full BB18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BB18 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB18 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB18 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB18 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BB18 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB18 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB18 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB18 5 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.