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Foulridge market report BB8 7, Colne
The BB8 7 (Foulridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,985 HM Land Registry entries for BB8 7 (Colne), 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: a typical BB8 7 (Colne) home changed hands for £185,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, down 20% on five years earlier), with the mean at £226,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,985 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB8 7 is one sector of BB8 (Colne): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BB8 7 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.
Today's BB8 7 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for BB8 7 is £185,000, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £226,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in BB8 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BB8 7 costs about £2,530 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BB8 7 sits 35% below the national market.
The price of a typical BB8 7 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £242,500 | £248,299 | 115 |
| 2024 | £256,800 | £273,031 | 80 |
| 2023 | £215,000 | £236,233 | 59 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 117 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 178 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 105 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 100 |
| 2018 | £199,800 | £266,337 | 88 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 88 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 102 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 87 |
| 2014 | £157,500 | £223,441 | 78 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 75 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 71 |
| 2011 | £142,500 | £215,120 | 56 |
| 2010 | £161,500 | £253,274 | 64 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 74 |
| 2008 | £167,500 | £274,568 | 65 |
| 2007 | £163,000 | £276,493 | 95 |
| 2006 | £158,000 | £274,268 | 140 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 82 |
| 2004 | £133,000 | £241,554 | 132 |
| 2003 | £123,200 | £226,964 | 138 |
| 2002 | £87,500 | £164,630 | 129 |
| 2001 | £62,500 | £120,153 | 128 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 94 |
| 1999 | £62,500 | £124,559 | 86 |
| 1998 | £62,700 | £126,564 | 108 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 86 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 62 |
| 1995 | £57,700 | £125,431 | 74 |
In cash terms the typical BB8 7 home went from £57,700 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 3.2 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 47%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 36% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB8 7 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 (+40.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−23.7%). 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) | −23.7% | −25.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.3% | −8.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.3% | −3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −1.9% |
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.
Sales activity in BB8 7
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.
BB8 7 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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.
The rental side of BB8 7
For renting purposes BB8 7 sits in Pendle. The ONS average private rent there is £652 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £483 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,067, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Pendle
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £185,000 median purchase price, a rent of £652 a month (£7,824 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
Reading the BB8 7 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB8 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the BB8 district median, BB8 7 sits 29% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about BB8 7 (Foulridge)
Is BB8 7 (Foulridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB8 7 (Foulridge)?
Are property prices falling in BB8 7 (Foulridge)?
Are BB8 7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 20% over five years in cash but down 36% 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.
BB8's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 164 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB8 district, not just BB8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 BB8 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
The spread across the BB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BB area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BB8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB8 0 | £93,000 | 35 |
| BB8 8 | £155,000 | 33 |
| BB8 9 | £137,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full BB8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BB8 7: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BB8 7'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BB8 7.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB8 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB8 7 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.
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.