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Barrow market report BB7 1, Clitheroe
The BB7 1 (Barrow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,224 registered sales in BB7 1 (Clitheroe) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 47 registered 2026 sales put the BB7 1 (Clitheroe) median at £200,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £238,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,580 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,224 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BB7 1 is a single group of streets within BB7 (Clitheroe), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB7 1 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.
The going rate for a home in BB7 1
47 sales were registered in BB7 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £200,000. The mean works out at £238,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
BB7 1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put BB7 1 at roughly £2,580 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, BB7 1 sits 30% below the national market.
A typical BB7 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £208,500 | £213,486 | 171 |
| 2024 | £228,000 | £242,411 | 157 |
| 2023 | £213,000 | £234,035 | 160 |
| 2022 | £193,500 | £226,901 | 177 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 187 |
| 2020 | £228,500 | £296,483 | 192 |
| 2019 | £204,100 | £267,526 | 192 |
| 2018 | £181,200 | £241,543 | 184 |
| 2017 | £155,500 | £212,086 | 173 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 150 |
| 2015 | £139,000 | £196,407 | 147 |
| 2014 | £138,500 | £196,486 | 151 |
| 2013 | £136,000 | £195,690 | 149 |
| 2012 | £119,000 | £175,153 | 99 |
| 2011 | £122,500 | £184,928 | 83 |
| 2010 | £127,000 | £199,169 | 105 |
| 2009 | £127,500 | £204,957 | 81 |
| 2008 | £133,000 | £218,015 | 103 |
| 2007 | £131,000 | £222,212 | 182 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 186 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 162 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 214 |
| 2003 | £78,200 | £144,063 | 220 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 217 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 223 |
| 2000 | £47,700 | £93,611 | 194 |
| 1999 | £52,400 | £104,430 | 190 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 226 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 195 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 155 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 152 |
In cash terms the typical BB7 1 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB7 1 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 (+34.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−21.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB7 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.1% | −6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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
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.
BB7 1 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 142 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 kind of market BB7 1 is
This is a thin market: 47 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. 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 BB7, this sector trades 22% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around BB7 1
BB7 1 falls under Ribble Valley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £810 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £602 a month here against £1,386 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Ribble Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £200,000 median purchase price, a rent of £810 a month (£9,720 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.
Common questions on BB7 1 (Barrow)
How much did a house sell for in BB7 1 (Barrow)?
Are property prices falling in BB7 1 (Barrow)?
Is BB7 1 (Barrow) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to BB7 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in BB7 today
Turning to what is actually available: 17 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB7 district, not just BB7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 BB7 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
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. 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.
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 BB7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BB7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 2 | £230,000 | 63 |
| BB7 3 | £300,000 | 7 |
| BB7 4 | £310,000 | 26 |
| BB7 9 | £325,000 | 87 |
Zoom out to the full BB7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BB7 1? 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 BB7 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB7 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB7 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BB7 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB7 1.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB7 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB7 1 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.