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Barrowford market report BB9 5, Nelson
The standing BB9 5 (Barrowford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,193 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB9 5 (Nelson) 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: a typical BB9 5 (Nelson) home changed hands for £150,000 in 2026 (median of 40 registered sales, up 39% on five years earlier), with the mean at £145,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,550 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,193 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BB9 5 is one sector of BB9 (Nelson): 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 BB9 5 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 a home in BB9 5 sells for
The 2026 median for BB9 5 is £150,000, taken from 40 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £145,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in BB9 5
By floor space, homes in BB9 5 have sold for about £1,550 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 BB9 5 trades 47% below the country as a whole.
BB9 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £125,000 | £127,989 | 87 |
| 2024 | £128,500 | £136,622 | 80 |
| 2023 | £121,000 | £132,949 | 97 |
| 2022 | £127,000 | £148,922 | 103 |
| 2021 | £108,200 | £136,995 | 110 |
| 2020 | £98,000 | £127,157 | 105 |
| 2019 | £93,000 | £121,901 | 114 |
| 2018 | £75,000 | £99,976 | 103 |
| 2017 | £60,000 | £81,834 | 115 |
| 2016 | £60,000 | £83,941 | 107 |
| 2015 | £59,000 | £83,367 | 76 |
| 2014 | £60,000 | £85,120 | 76 |
| 2013 | £63,000 | £90,651 | 92 |
| 2012 | £70,000 | £103,031 | 75 |
| 2011 | £61,500 | £92,841 | 66 |
| 2010 | £70,000 | £109,778 | 76 |
| 2009 | £65,000 | £104,488 | 70 |
| 2008 | £72,800 | £119,335 | 98 |
| 2007 | £71,000 | £120,436 | 227 |
| 2006 | £61,000 | £105,888 | 265 |
| 2005 | £38,000 | £67,625 | 248 |
| 2004 | £27,000 | £49,037 | 303 |
| 2003 | £25,000 | £46,056 | 236 |
| 2002 | £23,800 | £44,779 | 270 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 221 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 166 |
| 1999 | £23,200 | £46,236 | 118 |
| 1998 | £20,200 | £40,775 | 120 |
| 1997 | £23,200 | £47,579 | 114 |
| 1996 | £22,500 | £47,451 | 96 |
| 1995 | £23,200 | £50,433 | 119 |
In cash terms the typical BB9 5 home went from £23,200 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 197%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the BB9 5 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 2006 (+60.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2002 (−25.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB9 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +20.0% | +17.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.8% | +1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +9.6% | +6.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
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.
Sales activity in BB9 5
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.
The register shows 40 BB9 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 242 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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 shape of the BB9 5 market
This is a thin market: 40 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 BB9 district median, BB9 5 sits 11% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around BB9 5
BB9 5 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.
Against the £150,000 median purchase price, a rent of £652 a month (£7,824 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
BB9 5 (Barrowford): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BB9 5 (Barrowford)?
Are property prices falling in BB9 5 (Barrowford)?
Is BB9 5 (Barrowford) a good place to buy a house?
Are BB9 5 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 9% 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.
On the market in BB9 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 185 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BB9 district, not just BB9 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 BB9 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BB area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BB9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BB9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB9 0 | £111,000 | 53 |
| 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 in BB9 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB9 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB9 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB9 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BB9 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB9 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB9 5 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.
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.