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Acre market report BB4 7, Rossendale
The standing BB4 7 (Acre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,974 registered sales in BB4 7 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BB4 7 (Rossendale) is £205,000, from 21 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier; the mean is £266,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,280 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,974 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB4 7 is one sector of BB4 (Rossendale): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BB4 7 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 7
The BB4 7 median stands at £205,000 for 2026, built from 21 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £266,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in BB4 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB4 7 costs about £2,280 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BB4 7 sits 28% below the national market.
A typical BB4 7 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £191,000 | £195,567 | 106 |
| 2024 | £184,000 | £195,630 | 91 |
| 2023 | £199,100 | £218,762 | 86 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 93 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 103 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 69 |
| 2019 | £127,200 | £166,729 | 118 |
| 2018 | £134,000 | £178,625 | 100 |
| 2017 | £153,000 | £208,677 | 121 |
| 2016 | £110,800 | £155,010 | 98 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 89 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 90 |
| 2013 | £102,500 | £147,487 | 72 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 56 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 58 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 63 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 45 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 59 |
| 2007 | £109,600 | £185,912 | 140 |
| 2006 | £96,800 | £168,032 | 138 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 183 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 128 |
| 2003 | £64,500 | £118,825 | 128 |
| 2002 | £44,200 | £83,162 | 115 |
| 2001 | £38,500 | £74,014 | 113 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 101 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 113 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 91 |
| 1997 | £35,500 | £72,803 | 85 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 43 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical BB4 7 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 195%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB4 7 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 (+52.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2006 (−25.5%). 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) | +7.3% | +4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.3% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
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 7 recorded 21 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 131 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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.
The shape of the BB4 7 market
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB4 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within BB4, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of BB4 7
The local authority for BB4 7 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.
Set against the £205,000 median sold price, £808 a month is £9,696 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Common questions on BB4 7 (Acre)
Is BB4 7 (Acre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB4 7 (Acre)?
Are property prices falling in BB4 7 (Acre)?
What happens to BB4 7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BB4 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB4 district, not just BB4 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 5 | £137,500 | 30 |
| BB4 6 | £203,000 | 49 |
| 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.
Before you sell in BB4 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB4 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB4 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB4 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BB4 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB4 7.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every BB4 7 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.
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.