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Barrowford market report BB9 0, Nelson
The standing BB9 0 (Barrowford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,551 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BB9 0 (Nelson) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BB9 0 (Nelson) is £111,000, from 53 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £139,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,460 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,551 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB9 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BB9 (Nelson). 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 BB9 0 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 buyers actually paid in BB9 0
Take the 53 registered 2026 sales in BB9 0 and the middle price, the median, is £111,000. The mean lands at £139,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in BB9 0
By floor space, homes in BB9 0 have sold for about £1,460 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB9 0 61% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BB9 0 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 | £111,000 | £111,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £123,000 | £125,941 | 178 |
| 2024 | £101,500 | £107,915 | 165 |
| 2023 | £106,200 | £116,688 | 124 |
| 2022 | £100,000 | £117,261 | 160 |
| 2021 | £91,500 | £115,851 | 206 |
| 2020 | £73,000 | £94,719 | 149 |
| 2019 | £65,000 | £85,199 | 165 |
| 2018 | £70,500 | £93,978 | 180 |
| 2017 | £75,000 | £102,292 | 163 |
| 2016 | £75,000 | £104,926 | 194 |
| 2015 | £68,500 | £96,791 | 168 |
| 2014 | £63,000 | £89,377 | 138 |
| 2013 | £63,200 | £90,938 | 134 |
| 2012 | £70,000 | £103,031 | 106 |
| 2011 | £60,500 | £91,332 | 100 |
| 2010 | £73,000 | £114,483 | 103 |
| 2009 | £68,000 | £109,311 | 109 |
| 2008 | £81,800 | £134,087 | 156 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 341 |
| 2006 | £75,000 | £130,190 | 462 |
| 2005 | £55,000 | £97,878 | 356 |
| 2004 | £40,000 | £72,648 | 399 |
| 2003 | £35,000 | £64,478 | 333 |
| 2002 | £32,000 | £60,208 | 366 |
| 2001 | £31,000 | £59,596 | 327 |
| 2000 | £28,300 | £55,539 | 246 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 237 |
| 1998 | £27,400 | £55,309 | 224 |
| 1997 | £31,500 | £64,600 | 159 |
| 1996 | £27,500 | £57,996 | 157 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 193 |
In cash terms the typical BB9 0 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £111,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 70%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB9 0 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 2005 (+37.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−17.1%). 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) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
BB9 0 recorded 53 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 354 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of BB9 0
The local authority for BB9 0 is Pendle, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £111,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.0%. 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.
What kind of market BB9 0 is
Only 53 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BB9 0 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. Against the BB9 district median, BB9 0 sits 18% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on BB9 0 (Barrowford)
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What happens to BB9 0 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in BB9 today
The live side of the market holds 185 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB9 district, not just BB9 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- The Orchard, Barrowford, Lancashire
- Meadow Bank Mews, Nelson, Lancashire
- Trent Road, Nelson, Lancashire, BB9
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BB9 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in BB
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 BB9
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BB9's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB9 5 | £150,000 | 40 |
| BB9 6 | £238,000 | 33 |
| BB9 7 | £84,200 | 14 |
| BB9 8 | £140,000 | 60 |
| BB9 9 | £82,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full BB9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BB9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BB9 0? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB9 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB9 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB9 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BB9 0.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB9 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB9 0 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.