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Beardwood market report BB2 3, Blackburn
The BB2 3 (Beardwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,574 HM Land Registry entries for BB2 3 (Blackburn), 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: the 2026 median for BB2 3 (Blackburn) is £129,000, from 36 registered sales, up 47% on five years earlier; the mean is £147,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,800 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,574 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB2 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB2 (Blackburn). 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 BB2 3 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 BB2 3 homes really sell for
36 sales were registered in BB2 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £129,000. The mean works out at £147,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BB2 3
The last five years of sales put BB2 3 at roughly £1,800 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BB2 3 55% below the national figure.
BB2 3'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £129,000 | £129,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 137 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 134 |
| 2023 | £127,000 | £139,542 | 133 |
| 2022 | £116,000 | £136,023 | 141 |
| 2021 | £88,000 | £111,419 | 115 |
| 2020 | £93,000 | £120,669 | 86 |
| 2019 | £92,500 | £121,245 | 111 |
| 2018 | £95,000 | £126,637 | 91 |
| 2017 | £85,000 | £115,931 | 64 |
| 2016 | £73,400 | £102,687 | 78 |
| 2015 | £78,000 | £110,214 | 115 |
| 2014 | £82,500 | £117,041 | 113 |
| 2013 | £86,200 | £124,033 | 118 |
| 2012 | £70,000 | £103,031 | 65 |
| 2011 | £66,000 | £99,635 | 71 |
| 2010 | £80,600 | £126,402 | 74 |
| 2009 | £76,000 | £122,171 | 93 |
| 2008 | £76,000 | £124,580 | 89 |
| 2007 | £68,500 | £116,195 | 237 |
| 2006 | £65,000 | £112,832 | 290 |
| 2005 | £55,800 | £99,302 | 270 |
| 2004 | £52,000 | £94,442 | 324 |
| 2003 | £34,000 | £62,636 | 280 |
| 2002 | £28,500 | £53,623 | 198 |
| 2001 | £29,000 | £55,751 | 202 |
| 2000 | £32,000 | £62,800 | 175 |
| 1999 | £32,000 | £63,774 | 150 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 132 |
| 1997 | £26,500 | £54,346 | 140 |
| 1996 | £26,800 | £56,520 | 102 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 210 |
In cash terms the typical BB2 3 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £129,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 98%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2025. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB2 3 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 2004 (+52.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−19.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB2 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −19.4% | −21.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.9% | +3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
BB2 3 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 247 sales a year before the financial crisis and 116 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.
Reading the BB2 3 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB2 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within BB2, this sector trades 28% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around BB2 3
For renting purposes BB2 3 sits in Blackburn with Darwen. The ONS average private rent there is £711 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £532 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,111, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Blackburn with Darwen
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £129,000 median purchase price, a rent of £711 a month (£8,532 a year) works out at a 6.6% 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.
Asked and answered: BB2 3 (Beardwood)
Is BB2 3 (Beardwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB2 3 (Beardwood)?
Are property prices falling in BB2 3 (Beardwood)?
What happens to BB2 3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 47% over five years in cash and up 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in BB2 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 104 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB2 district, not just BB2 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% 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 BB2 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. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
BB area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BB2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB2 1 | £100,000 | 12 |
| BB2 2 | £125,000 | 21 |
| BB2 4 | £150,000 | 90 |
| BB2 5 | £250,000 | 69 |
| BB2 6 | £158,200 | 26 |
| BB2 7 | £245,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full BB2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BB2 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB2 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB2 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB2 3 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 BB2 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB2 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB2 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB2 3 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.