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Beardwood market report BB2, Blackburn
The BB2 (Beardwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 30,416 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BB2 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 289 registered 2026 sales put the BB2 (Blackburn) median at £180,000, up 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £203,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,970 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 30,416 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB2 is the postcode district covering Blackburn (west), Beardwood, Balderstone in Blackburn. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BB2 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 buyers actually paid in BB2
The BB2 median stands at £180,000 for 2026, built from 289 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £203,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BB2
Per square metre, BB2 homes have averaged around £1,970 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BB2 37% below the national figure.
A typical BB2 home, priced year by year (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 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 289 |
| 2025 | £186,500 | £190,960 | 960 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 916 |
| 2023 | £167,500 | £184,042 | 849 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 945 |
| 2021 | £147,000 | £186,121 | 957 |
| 2020 | £142,200 | £184,507 | 742 |
| 2019 | £142,200 | £186,390 | 858 |
| 2018 | £132,500 | £176,625 | 808 |
| 2017 | £122,500 | £167,078 | 725 |
| 2016 | £105,500 | £147,596 | 645 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 690 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 672 |
| 2013 | £108,000 | £155,401 | 613 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 463 |
| 2011 | £91,200 | £137,677 | 534 |
| 2010 | £102,000 | £159,962 | 683 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 655 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 641 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 1,363 |
| 2006 | £93,000 | £161,436 | 1,478 |
| 2005 | £81,000 | £144,147 | 1,376 |
| 2004 | £74,200 | £134,762 | 1,570 |
| 2003 | £58,000 | £106,850 | 1,569 |
| 2002 | £47,500 | £89,371 | 1,552 |
| 2001 | £44,000 | £84,588 | 1,353 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 1,225 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 1,163 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 1,079 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 1,086 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 981 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 976 |
In cash terms the typical BB2 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 137%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 6% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB2 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 (+27.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £115,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, BB2
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £310,000 | 68 | 6,452 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 94 | 7,738 |
| Terraced | £125,800 | 116 | 15,078 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 11 | 1,148 |
What BB2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.5% | −5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 638 BB2 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 1,436 sales a year before the financial crisis and 792 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
The local authority for BB2 is Blackburn with Darwen, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £711 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £532 a month here against £1,111 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Blackburn with Darwen
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £180,000 median sold price, £711 a month is £8,532 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
What kind of market BB2 is
Among the 13 measurable districts of its area, BB2 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
BB2 (Beardwood): the questions that come up
Is BB2 (Beardwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB2 (Beardwood)?
Are property prices falling in BB2 (Beardwood)?
Are BB2 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in BB2 now
Everything above is what homes in BB2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 104 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% below the BB2 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
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
BB2 ranks 3 of 13 in the BB area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the BB area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BB2, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| BB2 7 | £245,000 | 35 |
How BB2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 | £257,500 | +3% |
| BB4 | £189,000 | +11% |
| BB2 (this report) | £180,000 | +22% |
| BB12 | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB18 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB3 | £155,000 | +16% |
| BB8 | £143,800 | -3% |
| BB5 | £140,000 | +13% |
| BB9 | £135,000 | +29% |
| BB11 | £135,000 | +35% |
| BB10 | £125,000 | +7% |
Before you sell in BB2: 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every BB2 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.
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.