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Barrow market report BB7, Clitheroe
The BB7 (Barrow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 20,111 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BB7 (Clitheroe) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BB7 (Clitheroe) sold for £257,500 in 2026, the median of 230 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £308,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 20,111 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BB7 is the postcode district covering Clitheroe, Barrow, Bashall Eaves in Clitheroe. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BB7 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 sold prices: where the market stands
The BB7 median stands at £257,500 for 2026, built from 230 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £308,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in BB7
The last five years of sales put BB7 at roughly £2,870 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BB7 10% below the national figure.
The price of a typical BB7 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 | £257,500 | £257,500 | 230 |
| 2025 | £287,000 | £293,863 | 657 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 665 |
| 2023 | £270,900 | £297,653 | 656 |
| 2022 | £267,500 | £313,674 | 768 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 925 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 704 |
| 2019 | £238,700 | £312,879 | 710 |
| 2018 | £218,000 | £290,598 | 725 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 757 |
| 2016 | £213,500 | £298,689 | 651 |
| 2015 | £199,500 | £281,894 | 600 |
| 2014 | £184,000 | £261,036 | 621 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 515 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 379 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 352 |
| 2010 | £172,500 | £270,524 | 344 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 352 |
| 2008 | £177,200 | £290,468 | 350 |
| 2007 | £173,000 | £293,456 | 620 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 725 |
| 2005 | £158,500 | £282,066 | 602 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 737 |
| 2003 | £115,200 | £212,226 | 866 |
| 2002 | £89,000 | £167,453 | 880 |
| 2001 | £73,700 | £141,684 | 790 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 651 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 603 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 740 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 744 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 614 |
| 1995 | £53,800 | £116,953 | 578 |
In cash terms the typical BB7 home went from £53,800 in 1995 to £257,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 120%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB7 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 2003 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £455,500 against £164,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, BB7
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 | £455,500 | 58 | 5,927 |
| Semi-detached | £265,000 | 60 | 5,096 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 104 | 8,100 |
| Flats | £164,000 | 8 | 988 |
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
BB7 recorded 492 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 595 sales a year recently, against 734 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around BB7
The local authority for BB7 is Ribble Valley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £810 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £602 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,386 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Ribble Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£810 a month is £9,720 a year, which against the £257,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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 kind of market BB7 is
By median price, BB7 presently tops its postcode area.
Common questions on BB7 (Barrow)
Are property prices falling in BB7 (Barrow)?
Is BB7 (Barrow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB7 (Barrow)?
Where do BB7 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BB7 now
Everything above is what homes in BB7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 17 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the BB7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BB7 ranks 11 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.
BB area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BB7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 1 | £200,000 | 47 |
| BB7 2 | £230,000 | 63 |
| BB7 3 | £300,000 | 7 |
| BB7 4 | £310,000 | 26 |
| BB7 9 | £325,000 | 87 |
How BB7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 (this report) | £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 | £140,000 | +13% |
| BB9 | £135,000 | +29% |
| BB11 | £135,000 | +35% |
| BB10 | £125,000 | +7% |
Thinking of selling in BB7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB7, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every BB7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.