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Barrowford market report BB9 6, Nelson
The BB9 6 (Barrowford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,802 registered sales in BB9 6 (Nelson) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BB9 6 (Nelson) came in at £238,000, out of 33 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £271,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,802 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BB9 6 is a single group of streets within BB9 (Nelson), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BB9 6 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 BB9 6 homes really sell for
33 sales were registered in BB9 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £238,000. The mean works out at £271,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BB9 6 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BB9 6 have sold for about £2,480 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BB9 6 sits 16% below the national market.
BB9 6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £238,000 | £238,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 85 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 79 |
| 2023 | £256,500 | £281,831 | 86 |
| 2022 | £241,200 | £282,835 | 80 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 121 |
| 2020 | £201,000 | £260,802 | 66 |
| 2019 | £164,300 | £215,358 | 76 |
| 2018 | £202,500 | £269,936 | 84 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 75 |
| 2016 | £162,500 | £227,339 | 75 |
| 2015 | £176,000 | £248,688 | 87 |
| 2014 | £163,800 | £232,379 | 72 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 68 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 53 |
| 2011 | £150,500 | £227,197 | 64 |
| 2010 | £174,000 | £272,877 | 61 |
| 2009 | £132,800 | £213,477 | 48 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 61 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 111 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 136 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 119 |
| 2004 | £148,400 | £269,523 | 160 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 119 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 116 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 103 |
| 2000 | £62,800 | £123,245 | 108 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 109 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 109 |
| 1997 | £66,200 | £135,763 | 70 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 83 |
| 1995 | £59,500 | £129,344 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical BB9 6 home went from £59,500 in 1995 to £238,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 84%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BB9 6 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 1997 (+48.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−26.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB9 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.7% | +8.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BB9 6
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 33 BB9 6 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 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
What tenants pay around BB9 6
BB9 6 falls under Pendle, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £652 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £483 a month here against £1,067 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £238,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
How BB9 6 trades
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. 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. Within BB9, this sector trades 76% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
BB9 6 (Barrowford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BB9 6 (Barrowford)?
Is BB9 6 (Barrowford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BB9 6 (Barrowford)?
Are BB9 6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
What you could buy in BB9 now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Orchard, Barrowford, Lancashire
- Meadow Bank Mews, Nelson, Lancashire
- Trent Road, Nelson, Lancashire, BB9
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 BB9 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BB: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BB area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
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
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 0 | £111,000 | 53 |
| BB9 5 | £150,000 | 40 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BB9 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB9 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB9 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB9 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BB9 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB9 6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB9 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BB9 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.