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Acre market report BB4 5, Rossendale
The standing BB4 5 (Acre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,213 registered sales in BB4 5 (Rossendale) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BB4 5 (Rossendale) sold for £137,500 in 2026, the median of 30 registered sales, up 30% on five years earlier. The mean was £153,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,560 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,213 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BB4 5 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 5 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.
What buyers actually paid in BB4 5
Take the 30 registered 2026 sales in BB4 5 and the middle price, the median, is £137,500. The mean lands at £153,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
BB4 5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BB4 5 homes have averaged around £1,560 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB4 5 52% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BB4 5 home, 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 | £137,500 | £137,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £128,800 | £131,880 | 108 |
| 2024 | £125,000 | £132,901 | 71 |
| 2023 | £120,000 | £131,851 | 73 |
| 2022 | £122,900 | £144,114 | 88 |
| 2021 | £106,000 | £134,210 | 116 |
| 2020 | £94,500 | £122,616 | 74 |
| 2019 | £86,000 | £112,725 | 79 |
| 2018 | £84,200 | £112,240 | 79 |
| 2017 | £86,000 | £117,295 | 83 |
| 2016 | £86,500 | £121,014 | 79 |
| 2015 | £78,500 | £110,921 | 73 |
| 2014 | £76,500 | £108,529 | 68 |
| 2013 | £73,800 | £106,191 | 60 |
| 2012 | £74,500 | £109,655 | 52 |
| 2011 | £72,000 | £108,692 | 42 |
| 2010 | £86,000 | £134,870 | 54 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 53 |
| 2008 | £87,500 | £143,431 | 77 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 209 |
| 2006 | £88,500 | £153,625 | 166 |
| 2005 | £86,000 | £153,045 | 233 |
| 2004 | £60,800 | £110,425 | 164 |
| 2003 | £46,000 | £84,743 | 147 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 153 |
| 2001 | £34,200 | £65,748 | 134 |
| 2000 | £31,000 | £60,838 | 105 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 116 |
| 1998 | £26,000 | £52,483 | 130 |
| 1997 | £29,500 | £60,499 | 109 |
| 1996 | £28,500 | £60,105 | 91 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical BB4 5 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £137,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 98%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 15% 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 BB4 5 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 2005 (+41.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−16.3%). 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) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
BB4 5 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 164 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.
Reading the BB4 5 market
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB4 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within BB4, this sector trades 27% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of BB4 5
BB4 5 falls under Rossendale, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £808 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £588 a month here against £1,224 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Rossendale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £137,500 median sold price, £808 a month is £9,696 a year, a gross yield of 7.1%: 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.
BB4 5 (Acre): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BB4 5 (Acre)?
Is BB4 5 (Acre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB4 5 (Acre)?
Are BB4 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What is for sale in BB4 right now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Gambleside Close, Loveclough, Rossend...
- Crawshawbooth, Rossendale, Lancashire
- Manchester Road, Haslingden, Rossendale
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in BB
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
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 4 | £226,000 | 42 |
| 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.
Selling a home in BB4 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB4 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB4 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB4 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB4 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB4 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB4 5 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.