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Acre market report BB4 6, Rossendale
The BB4 6 (Acre) 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: 4,027 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB4 6 (Rossendale) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BB4 6 (Rossendale) home changed hands for £203,000 in 2026 (median of 49 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £239,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,027 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BB4 6 is a single group of streets within BB4 (Rossendale), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB4 6 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 a home in BB4 6 sells for
The BB4 6 median stands at £203,000 for 2026, built from 49 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £239,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in BB4 6
A square metre of BB4 6 home has cost about £2,530 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB4 6 29% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BB4 6 home, 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 | £203,000 | £203,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 107 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 118 |
| 2023 | £213,200 | £234,255 | 86 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 129 |
| 2021 | £197,800 | £250,440 | 172 |
| 2020 | £172,200 | £223,433 | 107 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 152 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 131 |
| 2017 | £174,500 | £238,000 | 156 |
| 2016 | £163,200 | £228,318 | 170 |
| 2015 | £169,500 | £239,504 | 140 |
| 2014 | £137,500 | £195,068 | 122 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 97 |
| 2012 | £107,500 | £158,227 | 61 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 59 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 74 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 67 |
| 2008 | £123,000 | £201,623 | 104 |
| 2007 | £133,000 | £225,605 | 137 |
| 2006 | £117,500 | £203,965 | 149 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 133 |
| 2004 | £109,500 | £198,873 | 243 |
| 2003 | £88,000 | £162,117 | 210 |
| 2002 | £80,500 | £151,460 | 182 |
| 2001 | £75,500 | £145,145 | 162 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 136 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 126 |
| 1998 | £63,500 | £128,179 | 142 |
| 1997 | £57,900 | £118,741 | 132 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 70 |
| 1995 | £46,800 | £101,736 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical BB4 6 home went from £46,800 in 1995 to £203,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 100%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB4 6 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 1997 (+44.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.4%). 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) | −15.4% | −17.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BB4 6
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.
The register shows 49 BB4 6 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 169 sales a year before the financial crisis and 98 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 shape of the BB4 6 market
This is a thin market: 49 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of BB4 6
The local authority for BB4 6 is Rossendale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £808 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £203,000 median purchase price, a rent of £808 a month (£9,696 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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: BB4 6 (Acre)
Are property prices falling in BB4 6 (Acre)?
Is BB4 6 (Acre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB4 6 (Acre)?
Where do BB4 6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
BB4's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 32 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB4 district, not just BB4 6: 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
Winners and losers across the BB area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BB4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BB4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB4 4 | £226,000 | 42 |
| BB4 5 | £137,500 | 30 |
| 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 in BB4 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB4 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB4 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB4 6 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 BB4 6.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB4 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB4 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.