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Brogden market report BB18, Barnoldswick
The BB18 (Brogden) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 10,659 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BB18 (Barnoldswick) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 98 registered 2026 sales put the BB18 (Barnoldswick) median at £160,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £188,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,659 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BB18 covering Barnoldswick, Brogden, Earby sits in Barnoldswick. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BB18 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 BB18
Across 98 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB18 home went for £160,000. The mean is £188,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in BB18
A square metre of BB18 home has cost about £1,980 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BB18 trades 44% below the country as a whole.
BB18'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 98 |
| 2025 | £156,500 | £160,242 | 334 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 338 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 279 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 350 |
| 2021 | £142,000 | £179,790 | 407 |
| 2020 | £127,000 | £164,785 | 268 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 328 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 360 |
| 2017 | £118,800 | £162,031 | 320 |
| 2016 | £116,000 | £162,285 | 335 |
| 2015 | £102,500 | £144,833 | 319 |
| 2014 | £103,000 | £146,123 | 291 |
| 2013 | £93,500 | £134,537 | 257 |
| 2012 | £96,500 | £142,036 | 184 |
| 2011 | £94,000 | £141,904 | 237 |
| 2010 | £98,000 | £153,689 | 204 |
| 2009 | £107,500 | £172,807 | 202 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 229 |
| 2007 | £117,500 | £199,313 | 501 |
| 2006 | £103,000 | £178,795 | 568 |
| 2005 | £86,500 | £153,935 | 388 |
| 2004 | £77,500 | £140,755 | 478 |
| 2003 | £59,500 | £109,613 | 491 |
| 2002 | £42,000 | £79,023 | 479 |
| 2001 | £39,100 | £75,168 | 412 |
| 2000 | £39,100 | £76,734 | 446 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 429 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 331 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 297 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 242 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 257 |
In cash terms the typical BB18 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 116%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 20% 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 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 (+41.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−8.8%). 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) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 68% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £315,000 against £117,600 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, BB18
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 | £355,000 | 8 | 1,291 |
| Semi-detached | £231,000 | 22 | 2,020 |
| Terraced | £136,000 | 65 | 7,245 |
| Flats | £117,600 (2025) | – | 60 |
Sales activity in BB18
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
BB18 recorded 234 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 470 sales a year before the financial crisis and 280 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 homes rent for around BB18
The local authority for BB18 is Pendle, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £652 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £483 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,067 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Pendle
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£652 a month is £7,824 a year, which against the £160,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
BB18 (Brogden): the questions that come up
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What happens to BB18 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in BB18 today
Everything above is what homes in BB18 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 132 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the BB18 median sold price.
13% 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" 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 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BB18 ranks 7 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.
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.
Inside BB18, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BB18 5 | £159,000 | 52 |
| BB18 6 | £165,000 | 46 |
How BB18 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 | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB18 (this report) | £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 BB18? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB18, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB18's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB18 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BB18: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB18.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB18 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB18 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.