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Foulridge market report BB8 9, Colne

The standing BB8 9 (Foulridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,870 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB8 9 (Colne) 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: the typical home in BB8 9 (Colne) sold for £137,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier. The mean was £146,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,580 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,870 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

A postcode sector like BB8 9 is a single group of streets within BB8 (Colne), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What BB8 9 homes really sell for

In the BB8 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £137,000, from 41 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £146,100, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

BB8 9 prices by floor area

By floor space, homes in BB8 9 have sold for about £1,580 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BB8 9 trades 52% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical BB8 9 home went from £28,000 in 1995 to £137,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 125%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+36.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−12.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

Transaction volumes

Over the last twelve months of data, 41 sales completed in BB8 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 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.

Rents around BB8 9

For renting purposes BB8 9 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.

Against the £137,000 median purchase price, a rent of £652 a month (£7,824 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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 BB8 9 is

This is a thin market: 41 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.

What people ask about BB8 9 (Foulridge)

Will BB8 9 prices rise from here?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% 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

Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the BB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

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:

Zoom out to the full BB8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB8 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in BB8 9? Price it on the evidence

Go deeper

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB8 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual BB8 9 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.