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Beardwood market report BB2 4, Blackburn
The standing BB2 4 (Beardwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,546 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB2 4 (Blackburn) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BB2 4 (Blackburn) is £150,000, from 90 registered sales, up 36% on five years earlier; the mean is £176,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,660 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,546 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB2 4 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 4 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.
BB2 4 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for BB2 4 is £150,000, taken from 90 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £176,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in BB2 4
Per square metre, BB2 4 homes have averaged around £1,660 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB2 4 runs 47% below it.
A typical BB2 4 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 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 90 |
| 2025 | £137,800 | £141,095 | 232 |
| 2024 | £133,800 | £142,257 | 196 |
| 2023 | £120,000 | £131,851 | 187 |
| 2022 | £105,000 | £123,124 | 216 |
| 2021 | £110,000 | £139,274 | 241 |
| 2020 | £105,000 | £136,240 | 150 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 224 |
| 2018 | £104,000 | £138,634 | 218 |
| 2017 | £95,000 | £129,570 | 196 |
| 2016 | £95,000 | £132,906 | 183 |
| 2015 | £81,500 | £115,160 | 184 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 169 |
| 2013 | £98,500 | £141,732 | 146 |
| 2012 | £96,200 | £141,594 | 118 |
| 2011 | £91,800 | £138,583 | 124 |
| 2010 | £93,100 | £146,005 | 172 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 185 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 199 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 360 |
| 2006 | £97,800 | £169,768 | 474 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 423 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 500 |
| 2003 | £64,000 | £117,904 | 501 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 554 |
| 2001 | £48,500 | £93,239 | 450 |
| 2000 | £49,700 | £97,536 | 398 |
| 1999 | £41,000 | £81,711 | 360 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 335 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 305 |
| 1996 | £31,000 | £65,378 | 242 |
| 1995 | £32,700 | £71,085 | 214 |
In cash terms the typical BB2 4 home went from £32,700 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 111%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB2 4 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 1997 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.9% | +6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.4% | +1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BB2 4
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 90 sales completed in BB2 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 458 sales a year before the financial crisis and 184 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 tenants pay around BB2 4
For renting purposes BB2 4 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.
Set against the £150,000 median sold price, £711 a month is £8,532 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
The shape of the BB2 4 market
Against the BB2 district median, BB2 4 sits 17% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: BB2 4 (Beardwood)
How much did a house sell for in BB2 4 (Beardwood)?
Are property prices falling in BB2 4 (Beardwood)?
Is BB2 4 (Beardwood) a good place to buy a house?
Will BB2 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BB2's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 104 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB2 district, not just BB2 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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.
What another bedroom costs in BB
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 3 | £129,000 | 36 |
| 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.
Before you sell in BB2 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB2 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB2 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB2 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BB2 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB2 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB2 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BB2 4 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.