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Acre market report BB4 4, Rossendale
The BB4 4 (Acre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,776 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BB4 4 (Rossendale) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 42 registered 2026 sales put the BB4 4 (Rossendale) median at £226,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £270,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,776 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB4 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB4 (Rossendale). 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 BB4 4 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.
BB4 4 sold prices: where the market stands
42 sales were registered in BB4 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £226,000. The mean works out at £270,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in BB4 4
By floor space, homes in BB4 4 have sold for about £2,800 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BB4 4 sits 21% below the national market.
The price of a typical BB4 4 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £226,000 | £226,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 118 |
| 2024 | £235,500 | £250,385 | 96 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 74 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 112 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 139 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 97 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 124 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 135 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 161 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 116 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 121 |
| 2014 | £157,200 | £223,016 | 134 |
| 2013 | £162,000 | £233,102 | 121 |
| 2012 | £137,000 | £201,647 | 69 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 91 |
| 2010 | £144,500 | £226,613 | 73 |
| 2009 | £149,800 | £240,805 | 72 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 75 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 130 |
| 2006 | £152,500 | £264,721 | 145 |
| 2005 | £133,000 | £236,686 | 124 |
| 2004 | £132,000 | £239,738 | 212 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 167 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 164 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 123 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 125 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 133 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 183 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 141 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 69 |
| 1995 | £53,900 | £117,170 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical BB4 4 home went from £53,900 in 1995 to £226,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 93%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB4 4 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 (+34.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−21.2%). 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) | −16.3% | −18.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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 register shows 42 BB4 4 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 149 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around BB4 4
For renting purposes BB4 4 sits in Rossendale. The ONS average private rent there is £808 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £588 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,224 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Rossendale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £226,000 median purchase price, a rent of £808 a month (£9,696 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
How BB4 4 trades
This is a thin market: 42 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. Within BB4, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on BB4 4 (Acre)
How much did a house sell for in BB4 4 (Acre)?
Are property prices falling in BB4 4 (Acre)?
Is BB4 4 (Acre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BB4 4 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BB4's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 32 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB4 district, not just BB4 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Gambleside Close, Loveclough, Rossend...
- Crawshawbooth, Rossendale, Lancashire
- Manchester Road, Haslingden, Rossendale
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 BB4 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. 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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the BB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, BB area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB4 5 | £137,500 | 30 |
| BB4 6 | £203,000 | 49 |
| BB4 7 | £205,000 | 21 |
| BB4 8 | £195,500 | 54 |
| BB4 9 | £168,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full BB4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BB4 4? 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 BB4 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB4 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB4 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB4 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB4 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB4 4 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.