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Altham market report BB5 6, Accrington
The standing BB5 6 (Altham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,401 HM Land Registry entries for BB5 6 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BB5 6 (Accrington) is £137,500, from 66 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier; the mean is £147,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,401 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB5 6 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 6 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 buyers actually paid in BB5 6
Across 66 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB5 6 home went for £137,500. The mean is £147,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BB5 6
The last five years of sales put BB5 6 at roughly £1,610 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BB5 6 sits 52% below the national market.
The price of a typical BB5 6 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £137,500 | £137,500 | 66 |
| 2025 | £130,000 | £133,109 | 167 |
| 2024 | £120,000 | £127,585 | 144 |
| 2023 | £110,000 | £120,863 | 141 |
| 2022 | £110,800 | £129,926 | 158 |
| 2021 | £111,200 | £140,794 | 164 |
| 2020 | £95,000 | £123,264 | 125 |
| 2019 | £98,500 | £129,110 | 188 |
| 2018 | £90,000 | £119,972 | 160 |
| 2017 | £88,000 | £120,023 | 163 |
| 2016 | £96,000 | £134,305 | 148 |
| 2015 | £85,000 | £120,105 | 137 |
| 2014 | £82,000 | £116,331 | 141 |
| 2013 | £79,400 | £114,249 | 126 |
| 2012 | £85,800 | £126,287 | 120 |
| 2011 | £83,000 | £125,298 | 125 |
| 2010 | £84,000 | £131,734 | 105 |
| 2009 | £79,000 | £126,993 | 113 |
| 2008 | £97,000 | £159,003 | 153 |
| 2007 | £93,000 | £157,754 | 307 |
| 2006 | £84,000 | £145,813 | 378 |
| 2005 | £83,500 | £148,596 | 368 |
| 2004 | £59,700 | £108,427 | 296 |
| 2003 | £41,000 | £75,532 | 378 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 322 |
| 2001 | £37,000 | £71,131 | 277 |
| 2000 | £35,000 | £68,688 | 256 |
| 1999 | £37,200 | £74,138 | 248 |
| 1998 | £34,500 | £69,641 | 221 |
| 1997 | £33,500 | £68,702 | 263 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 199 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 244 |
In cash terms the typical BB5 6 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £137,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 92%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB5 6 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 (+45.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB5 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.8% | +3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 66 sales completed in BB5 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 323 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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.
Rents around BB5 6
For renting purposes BB5 6 sits in Hyndburn. The ONS average private rent there is £640 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £480 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £933, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Hyndburn
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £137,500 median sold price, £640 a month is £7,680 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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 6 (Altham)
Is BB5 6 (Altham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB5 6 (Altham)?
Are property prices falling in BB5 6 (Altham)?
What happens to BB5 6 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat 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.
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% 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.
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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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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%) | — | — |
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £122,000 | 45 |
| BB5 4 | £157,500 | 42 |
| BB5 5 | £165,000 | 59 |
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 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB5 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB5 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB5 6 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 6.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BB5 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB5 6 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.
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.