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Beardwood market report BB2 6, Blackburn
The BB2 6 (Beardwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,730 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BB2 6 (Blackburn) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 26 registered 2026 sales put the BB2 6 (Blackburn) median at £158,200, up 38% on five years earlier, with a mean of £205,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,500 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,730 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB2 6 is one sector of BB2 (Blackburn): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BB2 6 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 a home in BB2 6 sells for
Across 26 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB2 6 home went for £158,200. The mean is £205,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in BB2 6
A square metre of BB2 6 home has cost about £1,500 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 BB2 6 trades 44% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BB2 6 home, 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 | £158,200 | £158,200 | 26 |
| 2025 | £143,800 | £147,239 | 84 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 101 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 90 |
| 2022 | £121,000 | £141,886 | 118 |
| 2021 | £115,000 | £145,605 | 110 |
| 2020 | £107,500 | £139,483 | 118 |
| 2019 | £95,000 | £124,522 | 91 |
| 2018 | £100,000 | £133,302 | 99 |
| 2017 | £101,000 | £137,754 | 137 |
| 2016 | £95,000 | £132,906 | 106 |
| 2015 | £87,000 | £122,931 | 89 |
| 2014 | £95,500 | £135,483 | 106 |
| 2013 | £92,000 | £132,379 | 104 |
| 2012 | £93,000 | £136,884 | 85 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 85 |
| 2010 | £106,000 | £166,235 | 111 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 96 |
| 2008 | £108,000 | £177,035 | 122 |
| 2007 | £104,000 | £176,413 | 224 |
| 2006 | £98,000 | £170,115 | 210 |
| 2005 | £83,000 | £147,707 | 251 |
| 2004 | £75,100 | £136,396 | 231 |
| 2003 | £56,000 | £103,166 | 239 |
| 2002 | £42,000 | £79,023 | 270 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 245 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 225 |
| 1999 | £33,000 | £65,767 | 212 |
| 1998 | £34,600 | £69,843 | 204 |
| 1997 | £35,400 | £72,598 | 198 |
| 1996 | £32,700 | £68,963 | 188 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical BB2 6 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £158,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 127%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB2 6 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 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−8.9%). 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) | +10.0% | +7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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 6
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 26 BB2 6 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 237 sales a year before the financial crisis and 84 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.
The rental side of BB2 6
BB2 6 falls under Blackburn with Darwen, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £711 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £158,200 median sold price, £711 a month is £8,532 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.
How BB2 6 trades
This is a thin market: 26 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. 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 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: BB2 6 (Beardwood)
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Will BB2 6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BB2 right now
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 6: 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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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the BB area, five years
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 5 | £250,000 | 69 |
| 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.
Selling a home in BB2 6? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB2 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB2 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB2 6 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 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB2 6.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual BB2 6 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.
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.