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Bank Fold market report BB3, Darwen
The standing BB3 (Bank Fold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 22,132 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB3 (Darwen) 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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BB3 (Darwen) home changed hands for £155,000 in 2026 (median of 225 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £177,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,860 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 22,132 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district BB3 covering Darwen, Bank Fold, Eccleshill sits in Darwen. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BB3 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.
The going rate for a home in BB3
The 2026 median for BB3 is £155,000, taken from 225 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £177,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BB3
The last five years of sales put BB3 at roughly £1,860 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB3 runs 46% below it.
A typical BB3 home, priced year by year (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 | £155,000 | £155,000 | 225 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 618 |
| 2024 | £155,800 | £165,647 | 696 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 567 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 630 |
| 2021 | £134,000 | £169,661 | 747 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 598 |
| 2019 | £112,000 | £146,805 | 599 |
| 2018 | £107,800 | £143,699 | 536 |
| 2017 | £106,000 | £144,573 | 585 |
| 2016 | £103,000 | £144,098 | 564 |
| 2015 | £103,200 | £145,822 | 500 |
| 2014 | £97,000 | £137,611 | 469 |
| 2013 | £92,500 | £133,098 | 419 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 314 |
| 2011 | £88,800 | £134,054 | 322 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 362 |
| 2009 | £97,000 | £155,928 | 329 |
| 2008 | £98,000 | £160,643 | 475 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 1,070 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 1,218 |
| 2005 | £73,400 | £130,622 | 1,092 |
| 2004 | £68,000 | £123,501 | 1,215 |
| 2003 | £50,000 | £92,112 | 1,285 |
| 2002 | £46,000 | £86,549 | 1,020 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 1,007 |
| 2000 | £39,000 | £76,538 | 827 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 820 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 754 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 838 |
| 1996 | £32,500 | £68,541 | 763 |
| 1995 | £33,400 | £72,606 | 668 |
In cash terms the typical BB3 home went from £33,400 in 1995 to £155,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 113%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB3 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 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−7.2%). 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) | −6.1% | −8.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 61% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £305,000 against £89,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BB3
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 | £307,500 | 38 | 3,692 |
| Semi-detached | £197,000 | 37 | 4,368 |
| Terraced | £127,000 | 146 | 13,539 |
| Flats | £89,000 (2025) | – | 518 |
How many homes change hands in BB3
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 464 BB3 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 1,092 sales a year before the financial crisis and 547 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 BB3
For renting purposes BB3 sits in Blackburn with Darwen. The ONS average private rent there is £711 a month (May 2026). 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 £155,000 median sold price, £711 a month is £8,532 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: BB3 (Bank Fold)
How much did a house sell for in BB3 (Bank Fold)?
Are property prices falling in BB3 (Bank Fold)?
Is BB3 (Bank Fold) a good place to buy a house?
Are BB3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BB3 today
Everything above is what homes in BB3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 178 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 23% above the BB3 median sold price.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BB3 ranks 4 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.
BB area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BB3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB3 0 | £148,500 | 48 |
| BB3 1 | £142,500 | 52 |
| BB3 2 | £162,200 | 72 |
| BB3 3 | £162,000 | 53 |
How BB3 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 | £180,000 | +22% |
| BB12 | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB18 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB3 (this report) | £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 BB3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB3 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.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB3 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.