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Foulridge market report BB8 8, Colne
The BB8 8 (Foulridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,401 HM Land Registry entries for BB8 8 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BB8 8 (Colne) home changed hands for £155,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £178,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,020 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,401 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB8 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB8 (Colne). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BB8 8 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 BB8 8 homes really sell for
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BB8 8 home went for £155,000. The mean is £178,800, 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 8
The last five years of sales put BB8 8 at roughly £2,020 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BB8 8 trades 46% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BB8 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £155,000 | £155,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £185,500 | £189,936 | 98 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 79 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 83 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 124 |
| 2021 | £157,500 | £199,415 | 143 |
| 2020 | £162,200 | £210,458 | 116 |
| 2019 | £148,500 | £194,648 | 149 |
| 2018 | £149,500 | £199,286 | 110 |
| 2017 | £136,000 | £185,490 | 103 |
| 2016 | £121,000 | £169,280 | 81 |
| 2015 | £125,500 | £177,332 | 85 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 87 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 69 |
| 2012 | £82,500 | £121,430 | 66 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 41 |
| 2010 | £113,800 | £178,468 | 50 |
| 2009 | £101,500 | £163,162 | 36 |
| 2008 | £104,500 | £171,298 | 62 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 177 |
| 2006 | £99,800 | £173,240 | 150 |
| 2005 | £97,000 | £172,621 | 145 |
| 2004 | £73,400 | £133,309 | 158 |
| 2003 | £56,000 | £103,166 | 189 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 153 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 170 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 130 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 154 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 137 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 92 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 68 |
| 1995 | £38,100 | £82,824 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical BB8 8 home went from £38,100 in 1995 to £155,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 87%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB8 8 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 2013 (+49.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−21.4%). 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) | −16.4% | −18.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in BB8 8
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in BB8 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 159 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 a year over the last five. 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.
What kind of market BB8 8 is
This is a thin market: 33 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. Against the BB8 district median, BB8 8 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around BB8 8
BB8 8 falls under Pendle, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £652 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £483 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,067 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Pendle
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£652 a month is £7,824 a year, which against the £155,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
Common questions on BB8 8 (Foulridge)
Are property prices falling in BB8 8 (Foulridge)?
Is BB8 8 (Foulridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB8 8 (Foulridge)?
What happens to BB8 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
What is for sale in BB8 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 164 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB8 district, not just BB8 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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. 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 BB8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB8 0 | £93,000 | 35 |
| BB8 7 | £185,000 | 29 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BB8 8? 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 BB8 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB8 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB8 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB8 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB8 8 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.