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Altham market report BB5, Accrington
The BB5 (Altham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 34,336 HM Land Registry entries for BB5 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BB5 (Accrington) home changed hands for £140,000 in 2026 (median of 297 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £155,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,660 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 34,336 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district BB5 covering Accrington, Altham, Baxenden sits in Accrington. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BB5 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 homes really sell for
297 sales were registered in BB5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £140,000. The mean works out at £155,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BB5
The last five years of sales put BB5 at roughly £1,660 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB5 51% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BB5 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 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 297 |
| 2025 | £138,000 | £141,300 | 851 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 791 |
| 2023 | £123,000 | £135,147 | 749 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 990 |
| 2021 | £123,500 | £156,367 | 1,057 |
| 2020 | £106,000 | £137,537 | 830 |
| 2019 | £101,500 | £133,042 | 888 |
| 2018 | £95,000 | £126,637 | 807 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 952 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 925 |
| 2015 | £87,000 | £122,931 | 843 |
| 2014 | £85,000 | £120,587 | 775 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 720 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 596 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 675 |
| 2010 | £82,500 | £129,381 | 633 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 576 |
| 2008 | £90,000 | £147,529 | 816 |
| 2007 | £91,000 | £154,361 | 1,620 |
| 2006 | £83,000 | £144,077 | 1,955 |
| 2005 | £74,000 | £131,690 | 1,776 |
| 2004 | £57,000 | £103,523 | 1,938 |
| 2003 | £40,000 | £73,690 | 1,920 |
| 2002 | £38,500 | £72,437 | 1,751 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 1,527 |
| 2000 | £35,600 | £69,865 | 1,247 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 1,194 |
| 1998 | £32,700 | £66,007 | 1,108 |
| 1997 | £32,500 | £66,651 | 1,241 |
| 1996 | £31,000 | £65,378 | 1,178 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 1,110 |
In cash terms the typical BB5 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 10% 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 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 (+42.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). 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) | +1.4% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 64% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £266,000 against £98,800 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, BB5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £266,000 | 41 | 4,400 |
| Semi-detached | £173,500 | 86 | 7,345 |
| Terraced | £118,200 | 164 | 22,062 |
| Flats | £98,800 | 6 | 515 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 651 sales completed in BB5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,717 sales a year before the financial crisis and 736 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of BB5
BB5 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.
Against the £140,000 median purchase price, a rent of £640 a month (£7,680 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
What people ask about BB5 (Altham)
Are property prices falling in BB5 (Altham)?
Is BB5 (Altham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB5 (Altham)?
Are BB5 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BB5 today
Everything above is what homes in BB5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 208 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the BB5 median sold price.
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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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BB5 ranks 5 of 13 in the BB area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, BB area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BB5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| BB5 6 | £137,500 | 66 |
How BB5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 | £257,500 | +3% |
| BB4 | £189,000 | +11% |
| BB2 | £180,000 | +22% |
| BB12 | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB18 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB3 | £155,000 | +16% |
| BB8 | £143,800 | -3% |
| BB5 (this report) | £140,000 | +13% |
| BB9 | £135,000 | +29% |
| BB11 | £135,000 | +35% |
| BB10 | £125,000 | +7% |
Thinking of selling in BB5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual BB5 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.