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Bank Fold market report BB3 2, Darwen
The BB3 2 (Bank Fold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,117 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB3 2 (Darwen) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BB3 2 (Darwen) came in at £162,200, out of 72 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £188,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,790 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,117 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BB3 2 is a single group of streets within BB3 (Darwen), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB3 2 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 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 72 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB3 2 home went for £162,200. The mean is £188,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
BB3 2 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BB3 2 have sold for about £1,790 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB3 2 runs 43% below it.
A typical BB3 2 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £162,200 | £162,200 | 72 |
| 2025 | £154,000 | £157,683 | 147 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 178 |
| 2023 | £138,500 | £152,178 | 143 |
| 2022 | £137,500 | £161,234 | 146 |
| 2021 | £153,800 | £194,731 | 246 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 192 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 204 |
| 2018 | £109,200 | £145,566 | 142 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 178 |
| 2016 | £105,000 | £146,896 | 150 |
| 2015 | £111,000 | £156,843 | 140 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 131 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 115 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 88 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 95 |
| 2010 | £94,500 | £148,200 | 104 |
| 2009 | £90,500 | £145,480 | 74 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 108 |
| 2007 | £103,000 | £174,717 | 267 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 324 |
| 2005 | £76,000 | £135,249 | 278 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 285 |
| 2003 | £57,000 | £105,008 | 349 |
| 2002 | £47,000 | £88,430 | 310 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 274 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 241 |
| 1999 | £36,500 | £72,743 | 228 |
| 1998 | £35,500 | £71,659 | 219 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 243 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 227 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 219 |
In cash terms the typical BB3 2 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £162,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB3 2 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 2015 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−15.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB3 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.3% | +2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in BB3 2
The year-by-year sales count
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.
BB3 2 recorded 72 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 291 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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 2
For renting purposes BB3 2 sits in Blackburn with Darwen. The ONS average private rent there is £711 a month (May 2026). 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 £162,200 median purchase price, a rent of £711 a month (£8,532 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
Asked and answered: BB3 2 (Bank Fold)
Is BB3 2 (Bank Fold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB3 2 (Bank Fold)?
Are property prices falling in BB3 2 (Bank Fold)?
Are BB3 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
BB3's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 178 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB3 district, not just BB3 2: 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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BB3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB3 0 | £148,500 | 48 |
| BB3 1 | £142,500 | 52 |
| 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 a home in BB3 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB3 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB3 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB3 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BB3 2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB3 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB3 2 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.
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.