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Bank Fold market report BB3 1, Darwen
The BB3 1 (Bank Fold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,646 HM Land Registry entries for BB3 1 (Darwen), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 52 registered 2026 sales put the BB3 1 (Darwen) median at £142,500, up 30% on five years earlier, with a mean of £161,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,570 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,646 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB3 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB3 (Darwen). 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 BB3 1 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.
BB3 1 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for BB3 1 is £142,500, taken from 52 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £161,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in BB3 1
Per square metre, BB3 1 homes have averaged around £1,570 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 1 50% below the national figure.
BB3 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £142,500 | £142,500 | 52 |
| 2025 | £143,000 | £146,420 | 123 |
| 2024 | £117,500 | £124,927 | 115 |
| 2023 | £112,000 | £123,061 | 87 |
| 2022 | £127,500 | £149,508 | 102 |
| 2021 | £110,000 | £139,274 | 139 |
| 2020 | £104,000 | £134,942 | 108 |
| 2019 | £95,200 | £124,784 | 100 |
| 2018 | £82,000 | £109,308 | 101 |
| 2017 | £95,000 | £129,570 | 127 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 127 |
| 2015 | £86,500 | £122,225 | 109 |
| 2014 | £85,000 | £120,587 | 99 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 81 |
| 2012 | £80,600 | £118,633 | 70 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 59 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 71 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 63 |
| 2008 | £77,000 | £126,219 | 109 |
| 2007 | £83,000 | £140,791 | 254 |
| 2006 | £71,800 | £124,636 | 298 |
| 2005 | £64,000 | £113,894 | 207 |
| 2004 | £58,000 | £105,339 | 326 |
| 2003 | £34,000 | £62,636 | 295 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 194 |
| 2001 | £34,000 | £65,363 | 215 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 155 |
| 1999 | £31,000 | £61,781 | 165 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 166 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 210 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 167 |
| 1995 | £28,000 | £60,868 | 152 |
In cash terms the typical BB3 1 home went from £28,000 in 1995 to £142,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 134%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB3 1 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 (+70.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−13.7%). 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) | −0.3% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in BB3 1
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 52 BB3 1 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 243 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 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 tenants pay around BB3 1
BB3 1 falls under Blackburn with Darwen, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £142,500 median purchase price, a rent of £711 a month (£8,532 a year) works out at a 6.0% 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.
Reading the BB3 1 market
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB3 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the BB3 district median, BB3 1 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on BB3 1 (Bank Fold)
Are property prices falling in BB3 1 (Bank Fold)?
Is BB3 1 (Bank Fold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB3 1 (Bank Fold)?
Will BB3 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BB3 today
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 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Marsh House Lane, Darwen, Darwen
- Nicholas Street, Darwen, Lancashire, BB3
- Day Terrace, Darwen, Darwen
"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 BB3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BB
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
BB area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BB3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB3 0 | £148,500 | 48 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BB3 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB3 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB3 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB3 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BB3 1.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB3 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB3 1 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.
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.