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Altham market report BB5 5, Accrington
The BB5 5 (Altham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,913 registered sales in BB5 5 (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: a typical BB5 5 (Accrington) home changed hands for £165,000 in 2026 (median of 59 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £173,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,840 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,913 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB5 5 is one sector of BB5 (Accrington): 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 BB5 5 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 5 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for BB5 5 is £165,000, taken from 59 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £173,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
BB5 5 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BB5 5 have sold for about £1,840 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB5 5 runs 42% below it.
The price of a typical BB5 5 home, 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 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £155,000 | £158,707 | 179 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 167 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 145 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 210 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 231 |
| 2020 | £124,200 | £161,152 | 186 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 174 |
| 2018 | £111,000 | £147,965 | 155 |
| 2017 | £119,000 | £162,304 | 224 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 221 |
| 2015 | £110,500 | £156,137 | 172 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 149 |
| 2013 | £108,000 | £155,401 | 169 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 125 |
| 2011 | £88,200 | £133,148 | 104 |
| 2010 | £89,200 | £139,889 | 114 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 105 |
| 2008 | £103,000 | £168,839 | 151 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 325 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 399 |
| 2005 | £88,000 | £156,605 | 311 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 392 |
| 2003 | £66,400 | £122,325 | 410 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 387 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 317 |
| 2000 | £47,800 | £93,808 | 250 |
| 1999 | £44,800 | £89,284 | 249 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 221 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 213 |
| 1996 | £37,200 | £78,453 | 220 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 179 |
In cash terms the typical BB5 5 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 95%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB5 5 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 2012 (+28.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−10.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
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.
The register shows 59 BB5 5 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 349 sales a year before the financial crisis and 152 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.
Reading the BB5 5 market
Only 59 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB5 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the BB5 district median, BB5 5 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around BB5 5
The local authority for BB5 5 is Hyndburn, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£640 a month is £7,680 a year, which against the £165,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about BB5 5 (Altham)
How much did a house sell for in BB5 5 (Altham)?
Are property prices falling in BB5 5 (Altham)?
Is BB5 5 (Altham) a good place to buy a house?
Are BB5 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in BB5 right now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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.
What another bedroom costs in BB
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, 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%) | — | — |
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.
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 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 4 | £157,500 | 42 |
| 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 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB5 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB5 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB5 5 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 BB5 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB5 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB5 5 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.
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.