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Altham market report BB5 3, Accrington
The BB5 3 (Altham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,594 HM Land Registry entries for BB5 3 (Accrington), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
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 BB5 3 (Accrington) sold for £122,000 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £125,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,610 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,594 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BB5 3 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 3 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 3 homes really sell for
The BB5 3 median stands at £122,000 for 2026, built from 45 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £125,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BB5 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB5 3 costs about £1,610 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB5 3 runs 57% below it.
BB5 3's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £122,000 | £122,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £127,000 | £130,037 | 136 |
| 2024 | £114,000 | £121,205 | 101 |
| 2023 | £122,500 | £134,598 | 110 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 149 |
| 2021 | £114,500 | £144,972 | 153 |
| 2020 | £101,000 | £131,050 | 101 |
| 2019 | £100,000 | £131,076 | 114 |
| 2018 | £101,500 | £135,301 | 104 |
| 2017 | £112,500 | £153,439 | 130 |
| 2016 | £92,200 | £128,989 | 128 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 104 |
| 2014 | £86,000 | £122,006 | 99 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 82 |
| 2012 | £84,500 | £124,373 | 70 |
| 2011 | £87,500 | £132,091 | 79 |
| 2010 | £88,500 | £138,791 | 84 |
| 2009 | £85,500 | £137,442 | 78 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 128 |
| 2007 | £97,000 | £164,539 | 219 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 283 |
| 2005 | £80,000 | £142,368 | 259 |
| 2004 | £69,500 | £126,226 | 220 |
| 2003 | £46,900 | £86,401 | 240 |
| 2002 | £41,000 | £77,141 | 233 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 210 |
| 2000 | £37,800 | £74,183 | 156 |
| 1999 | £39,000 | £77,725 | 149 |
| 1998 | £33,000 | £66,613 | 151 |
| 1997 | £35,700 | £73,213 | 161 |
| 1996 | £32,500 | £68,541 | 173 |
| 1995 | £33,500 | £72,824 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical BB5 3 home went from £33,500 in 1995 to £122,000 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 68%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 26% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB5 3 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 2004 (+48.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.5%). 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) | −3.9% | −6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 45 BB5 3 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 228 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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 homes rent for around BB5 3
For renting purposes BB5 3 sits in Hyndburn. The ONS average private rent there is £640 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £122,000 median purchase price, a rent of £640 a month (£7,680 a year) works out at a 6.3% 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.
The shape of the BB5 3 market
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB5 3 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 BB5, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: BB5 3 (Altham)
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Will BB5 3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 BB5 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 208 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB5 district, not just BB5 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Grimshaw Street, Church, Accrington, ...
"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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, 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. 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.
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 BB5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB5 0 | £125,500 | 34 |
| BB5 1 | £120,000 | 8 |
| BB5 2 | £175,000 | 43 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BB5 3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB5 3'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 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB5 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB5 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.