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Beardwood market report BB2 5, Blackburn
The BB2 5 (Beardwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,280 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB2 5 (Blackburn) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BB2 5 (Blackburn) home changed hands for £250,000 in 2026 (median of 69 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £273,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,470 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,280 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB2 5 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 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.
BB2 5 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 69 registered 2026 sales in BB2 5 and the middle price, the median, is £250,000. The mean lands at £273,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BB2 5
Per square metre, BB2 5 homes have averaged around £2,470 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BB2 5 sits 12% below the national market.
A typical BB2 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 267 |
| 2024 | £254,500 | £270,586 | 260 |
| 2023 | £255,000 | £280,183 | 198 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 216 |
| 2021 | £224,400 | £284,119 | 208 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 175 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 211 |
| 2018 | £185,500 | £247,275 | 207 |
| 2017 | £158,000 | £215,496 | 136 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 107 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 99 |
| 2014 | £133,000 | £188,684 | 85 |
| 2013 | £126,500 | £182,021 | 83 |
| 2012 | £130,500 | £192,080 | 67 |
| 2011 | £129,500 | £195,495 | 54 |
| 2010 | £142,000 | £222,693 | 84 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 80 |
| 2008 | £145,500 | £238,505 | 65 |
| 2007 | £160,900 | £272,931 | 118 |
| 2006 | £142,200 | £246,841 | 102 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 111 |
| 2004 | £128,000 | £232,473 | 105 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 152 |
| 2002 | £77,000 | £144,875 | 128 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 132 |
| 2000 | £66,200 | £129,918 | 126 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 143 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 131 |
| 1997 | £52,400 | £107,462 | 99 |
| 1996 | £54,500 | £114,938 | 141 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 121 |
In cash terms the typical BB2 5 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 109%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB2 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 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.4% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +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 BB2 5
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 69 sales completed in BB2 5. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 202 sales a year over the last five years against 122 before the financial crisis. 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.
Reading the BB2 5 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within BB2, this sector trades 39% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around BB2 5
For renting purposes BB2 5 sits in Blackburn with Darwen. The ONS average private rent there is £711 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £532 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,111 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Blackburn with Darwen
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£711 a month is £8,532 a year, which against the £250,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. 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.
What people ask about BB2 5 (Beardwood)
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Are property prices falling in BB2 5 (Beardwood)?
Are BB2 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 BB2 today
The live side of the market holds 104 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB2 district, not just BB2 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB2 1 | £100,000 | 12 |
| BB2 2 | £125,000 | 21 |
| BB2 3 | £129,000 | 36 |
| BB2 4 | £150,000 | 90 |
| 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 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB2 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB2 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB2 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 BB2 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB2 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB2 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BB2 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.