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Altham market report BB5 4, Accrington
The standing BB5 4 (Altham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,568 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BB5 4 (Accrington) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BB5 4 (Accrington) home changed hands for £157,500 in 2026 (median of 42 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £168,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,568 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BB5 4 is a single group of streets within BB5 (Accrington), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB5 4 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.
Today's BB5 4 prices, from the sold record
In the BB5 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £157,500, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £168,800, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BB5 4
By floor space, homes in BB5 4 have sold for about £1,720 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BB5 4 45% below the national figure.
A typical BB5 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £157,500 | £157,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £147,500 | £151,027 | 138 |
| 2024 | £138,500 | £147,254 | 124 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 117 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 169 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 181 |
| 2020 | £117,500 | £152,459 | 156 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 156 |
| 2018 | £110,000 | £146,632 | 112 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 119 |
| 2016 | £99,500 | £139,201 | 106 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 101 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 118 |
| 2013 | £89,900 | £129,357 | 105 |
| 2012 | £84,500 | £124,373 | 81 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 69 |
| 2010 | £96,000 | £150,553 | 87 |
| 2009 | £84,000 | £135,031 | 70 |
| 2008 | £97,500 | £159,823 | 95 |
| 2007 | £102,400 | £173,699 | 206 |
| 2006 | £94,500 | £164,040 | 233 |
| 2005 | £69,000 | £122,792 | 185 |
| 2004 | £60,000 | £108,972 | 242 |
| 2003 | £43,000 | £79,216 | 227 |
| 2002 | £42,500 | £79,963 | 199 |
| 2001 | £38,000 | £73,053 | 200 |
| 2000 | £37,000 | £72,613 | 163 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 147 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 122 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 170 |
| 1996 | £40,500 | £85,413 | 180 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 148 |
In cash terms the typical BB5 4 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £157,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 120%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB5 4 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 (+39.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.8%). 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) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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 BB5 4
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in BB5 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 207 sales a year before the financial crisis and 118 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.
How BB5 4 trades
This is a thin market: 42 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. Within BB5, this sector trades 13% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of BB5 4
BB5 4 falls under Hyndburn, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £640 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £480 a month for a typical one-bed to £933 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Hyndburn
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £157,500 median purchase price, a rent of £640 a month (£7,680 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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: BB5 4 (Altham)
Is BB5 4 (Altham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB5 4 (Altham)?
Are property prices falling in BB5 4 (Altham)?
What happens to BB5 4 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
BB5's current homes for sale
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BB
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
BB area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB5's other sectors, each with 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 3 | £122,000 | 45 |
| 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.
Selling in BB5 4? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB5 4'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 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB5 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB5 4 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.