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Bank Fold market report BB3 0, Darwen
The standing BB3 0 (Bank Fold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,529 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB3 0 (Darwen) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BB3 0 (Darwen) came in at £148,500, out of 48 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £166,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,529 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BB3 0 is one sector of BB3 (Darwen): 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 BB3 0 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.
Today's BB3 0 prices, from the sold record
48 sales were registered in BB3 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £148,500. The mean works out at £166,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BB3 0 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BB3 0 homes have averaged around £1,880 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 BB3 0 48% below the national figure.
BB3 0's median sold price, 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 | £148,500 | £148,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 139 |
| 2024 | £156,500 | £166,392 | 141 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 115 |
| 2022 | £159,000 | £186,446 | 160 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 160 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 132 |
| 2019 | £116,000 | £152,048 | 131 |
| 2018 | £126,000 | £167,960 | 136 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 143 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 139 |
| 2015 | £113,000 | £159,669 | 122 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 110 |
| 2013 | £104,000 | £149,646 | 106 |
| 2012 | £89,500 | £131,733 | 66 |
| 2011 | £87,200 | £131,638 | 80 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 89 |
| 2009 | £102,500 | £164,770 | 112 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 121 |
| 2007 | £113,000 | £191,679 | 267 |
| 2006 | £91,500 | £158,832 | 298 |
| 2005 | £85,500 | £152,156 | 261 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 311 |
| 2003 | £75,600 | £139,274 | 373 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 313 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 294 |
| 2000 | £56,800 | £111,470 | 236 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 268 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 203 |
| 1997 | £40,500 | £83,057 | 186 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 160 |
| 1995 | £35,500 | £77,172 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical BB3 0 home went from £35,500 in 1995 to £148,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 92%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB3 0 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 (+28.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.8%). 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) | −7.2% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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
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 48 BB3 0 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 294 sales a year before the financial crisis and 121 a year over the last five. 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.
What homes rent for around BB3 0
The local authority for BB3 0 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.
£711 a month is £8,532 a year, which against the £148,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
How BB3 0 trades
This is a thin market: 48 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.
BB3 0 (Bank Fold): the questions that come up
Is BB3 0 (Bank Fold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB3 0 (Bank Fold)?
Are property prices falling in BB3 0 (Bank Fold)?
Where do BB3 0 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
BB3's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 178 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB3 district, not just BB3 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Marsh House Lane, Darwen, Darwen
- Nicholas Street, Darwen, Lancashire, BB3
- Day Terrace, Darwen, Darwen
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 BB3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BB3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB3 1 | £142,500 | 52 |
| BB3 2 | £162,200 | 72 |
| BB3 3 | £162,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full BB3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BB3 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB3 0's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB3 0.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB3 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual BB3 0 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.