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Altham market report BB5 2, Accrington
The BB5 2 (Altham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,812 registered sales in BB5 2 (Accrington) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BB5 2 (Accrington) came in at £175,000, out of 43 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £184,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,940 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,812 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BB5 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB5 (Accrington). 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 BB5 2 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 BB5 2 homes really sell for
Take the 43 registered 2026 sales in BB5 2 and the middle price, the median, is £175,000. The mean lands at £184,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BB5 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB5 2 costs about £1,940 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BB5 2 39% below the national figure.
The price of a typical BB5 2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 115 |
| 2024 | £170,500 | £181,277 | 121 |
| 2023 | £151,000 | £165,912 | 93 |
| 2022 | £169,400 | £198,641 | 128 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 168 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 128 |
| 2019 | £121,000 | £158,602 | 131 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 127 |
| 2017 | £123,000 | £167,760 | 157 |
| 2016 | £119,500 | £167,182 | 132 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 125 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 101 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 95 |
| 2012 | £101,000 | £148,659 | 85 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 105 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 91 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 88 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 107 |
| 2007 | £117,000 | £198,465 | 201 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 267 |
| 2005 | £63,500 | £113,004 | 233 |
| 2004 | £60,000 | £108,972 | 279 |
| 2003 | £50,000 | £92,112 | 248 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 237 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 193 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 180 |
| 1999 | £47,800 | £95,263 | 171 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 169 |
| 1997 | £43,500 | £89,210 | 182 |
| 1996 | £38,700 | £81,617 | 166 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 146 |
In cash terms the typical BB5 2 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 92%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB5 2 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 2006 (+41.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−21.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB5 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +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.
Sales activity in BB5 2
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.
BB5 2 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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.
What kind of market BB5 2 is
This is a thin market: 43 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 BB5, this sector trades 25% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around BB5 2
BB5 2 falls under Hyndburn, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £640 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £480 a month here against £933 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Hyndburn
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £175,000 median sold price, £640 a month is £7,680 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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 BB5 2 (Altham)
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What happens to BB5 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
On the market in BB5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 208 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB5 district, not just BB5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BB5 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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 BB5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BB5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB5 0 | £125,500 | 34 |
| BB5 1 | £120,000 | 8 |
| BB5 3 | £122,000 | 45 |
| BB5 4 | £157,500 | 42 |
| BB5 5 | £165,000 | 59 |
| BB5 6 | £137,500 | 66 |
Zoom out to the full BB5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BB5 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB5 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BB5 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB5 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB5 2 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.