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Acre market report BB4 9, Rossendale
The BB4 9 (Acre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,691 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB4 9 (Rossendale) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BB4 9 (Rossendale) is £168,000, from 31 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £183,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,691 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB4 9 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 9 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 9 sold prices: where the market stands
The BB4 9 median stands at £168,000 for 2026, built from 31 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £183,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BB4 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB4 9 costs about £2,030 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB4 9 41% below the country at large.
BB4 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £168,000 | £168,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 83 |
| 2024 | £160,500 | £170,644 | 80 |
| 2023 | £163,300 | £179,427 | 62 |
| 2022 | £145,300 | £170,381 | 89 |
| 2021 | £157,500 | £199,415 | 112 |
| 2020 | £141,000 | £182,950 | 73 |
| 2019 | £128,000 | £167,777 | 85 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 92 |
| 2017 | £109,000 | £148,665 | 80 |
| 2016 | £105,000 | £146,896 | 102 |
| 2015 | £90,000 | £127,170 | 90 |
| 2014 | £102,000 | £144,705 | 53 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 45 |
| 2012 | £98,500 | £144,980 | 53 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 55 |
| 2010 | £113,500 | £177,997 | 38 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 35 |
| 2008 | £109,000 | £178,674 | 41 |
| 2007 | £99,900 | £169,458 | 122 |
| 2006 | £99,000 | £171,851 | 132 |
| 2005 | £97,000 | £172,621 | 122 |
| 2004 | £86,500 | £157,101 | 149 |
| 2003 | £68,000 | £125,272 | 150 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 141 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 105 |
| 2000 | £39,500 | £77,519 | 97 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 99 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 93 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 77 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 48 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical BB4 9 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £168,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB4 9 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 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB4 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
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.
BB4 9 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
The shape of the BB4 9 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB4 9 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. Against the BB4 district median, BB4 9 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of BB4 9
The local authority for BB4 9 is Rossendale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £168,000 median sold price, £808 a month is £9,696 a year, a gross yield of 5.8%: 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: BB4 9 (Acre)
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What happens to BB4 9 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 you could buy in BB4 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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
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
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 4 | £226,000 | 42 |
| BB4 5 | £137,500 | 30 |
| BB4 6 | £203,000 | 49 |
| BB4 7 | £205,000 | 21 |
| BB4 8 | £195,500 | 54 |
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 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB4 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB4 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB4 9 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 9.
Go deeper
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See every individual BB4 9 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.
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.