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Beardwood market report BB2 7, Blackburn
The standing BB2 7 (Beardwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,044 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB2 7 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BB2 7 (Blackburn) home changed hands for £245,000 in 2026 (median of 35 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £267,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,610 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,044 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BB2 7 is a single group of streets within BB2 (Blackburn), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB2 7 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 7 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 35 registered 2026 sales in BB2 7 and the middle price, the median, is £245,000. The mean lands at £267,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in BB2 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB2 7 costs about £2,610 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB2 7 14% below the country at large.
BB2 7'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 148 |
| 2024 | £267,700 | £284,620 | 142 |
| 2023 | £278,000 | £305,454 | 135 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 142 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 175 |
| 2020 | £233,500 | £302,971 | 132 |
| 2019 | £225,500 | £295,577 | 152 |
| 2018 | £204,600 | £272,736 | 112 |
| 2017 | £187,500 | £255,731 | 117 |
| 2016 | £191,500 | £267,910 | 98 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 126 |
| 2014 | £192,500 | £273,095 | 119 |
| 2013 | £177,500 | £255,405 | 100 |
| 2012 | £167,500 | £246,539 | 66 |
| 2011 | £179,000 | £270,221 | 82 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 93 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 86 |
| 2008 | £199,000 | £326,203 | 65 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 164 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 183 |
| 2005 | £168,000 | £298,972 | 134 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 157 |
| 2003 | £147,700 | £272,099 | 180 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 174 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 148 |
| 2000 | £84,500 | £165,831 | 160 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 147 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 96 |
| 1997 | £69,700 | £142,941 | 154 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 124 |
| 1995 | £74,200 | £161,299 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical BB2 7 home went from £74,200 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 3.3 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 52%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB2 7 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 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.1%). 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) | −7.5% | −9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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, 35 sales completed in BB2 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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 7
The local authority for BB2 7 is Blackburn with Darwen, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £711 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £245,000 median purchase price, a rent of £711 a month (£8,532 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
How BB2 7 trades
This is a thin market: 35 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. Against the BB2 district median, BB2 7 sits 36% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: BB2 7 (Beardwood)
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What happens to BB2 7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in BB
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the BB area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB2's other sectors, each with 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 6 | £158,200 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full BB2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BB2 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB2 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB2 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB2 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB2 7.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB2 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB2 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.