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Barrow market report BB7 4, Clitheroe
The standing BB7 4 (Barrow) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,408 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB7 4 (Clitheroe) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: 26 registered 2026 sales put the BB7 4 (Clitheroe) median at £310,000, down 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £369,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,030 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,408 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BB7 4 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 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.
BB7 4 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 26 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB7 4 home went for £310,000. The mean is £369,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in BB7 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BB7 4 sales average about £3,030 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BB7 4 trades 9% above the country as a whole.
A typical BB7 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 26 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 85 |
| 2024 | £316,500 | £336,505 | 58 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 55 |
| 2022 | £335,000 | £392,826 | 81 |
| 2021 | £355,000 | £449,476 | 100 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 93 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 86 |
| 2018 | £257,000 | £342,586 | 84 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 85 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 59 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 78 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 71 |
| 2013 | £245,500 | £353,250 | 44 |
| 2012 | £218,900 | £322,193 | 52 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 34 |
| 2010 | £233,000 | £365,404 | 39 |
| 2009 | £239,800 | £385,481 | 44 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 40 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 97 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 107 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 67 |
| 2004 | £162,500 | £295,132 | 86 |
| 2003 | £149,000 | £274,494 | 109 |
| 2002 | £117,200 | £220,511 | 128 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 95 |
| 2000 | £93,500 | £183,494 | 72 |
| 1999 | £70,800 | £141,101 | 86 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 102 |
| 1997 | £79,000 | £162,013 | 92 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 89 |
| 1995 | £67,800 | £147,387 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical BB7 4 home went from £67,800 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 110%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BB7 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 2000 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−18.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB7 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.8% | −11.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.7% | −7.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in BB7 4
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BB7 4 recorded 26 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 95 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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 homes rent for around BB7 4
BB7 4 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 £310,000 median purchase price, a rent of £810 a month (£9,720 a year) works out at a 3.1% 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 kind of market BB7 4 is
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB7 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
BB7 4 (Barrow): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BB7 4 (Barrow)?
Is BB7 4 (Barrow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB7 4 (Barrow)?
Will BB7 4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% 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 BB7 right now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BB7 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BB area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 1 | £200,000 | 47 |
| BB7 2 | £230,000 | 63 |
| BB7 3 | £300,000 | 7 |
| 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.
Selling a home in BB7 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB7 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.
Estate agents working BB7 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB7 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB7 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB7 4 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.
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.