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Barrowford market report BB9 7, Nelson
The BB9 7 (Barrowford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,331 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB9 7 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 14 registered 2026 sales put the BB9 7 (Nelson) median at £84,200, up 36% on five years earlier, with a mean of £98,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £960 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,331 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BB9 7 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 7 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.
The going rate for a home in BB9 7
The 2026 median for BB9 7 is £84,200, taken from 14 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £98,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
BB9 7 prices by floor area
A square metre of BB9 7 home has cost about £960 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BB9 7 70% below the country at large.
BB9 7's median sold price, 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 | £84,200 | £84,200 | 14 |
| 2025 | £86,000 | £88,057 | 53 |
| 2024 | £69,000 | £73,361 | 48 |
| 2023 | £74,500 | £81,857 | 50 |
| 2022 | £67,900 | £79,620 | 52 |
| 2021 | £62,000 | £78,500 | 52 |
| 2020 | £54,000 | £70,066 | 41 |
| 2019 | £47,000 | £61,606 | 54 |
| 2018 | £50,500 | £67,317 | 63 |
| 2017 | £45,000 | £61,375 | 63 |
| 2016 | £45,600 | £63,795 | 64 |
| 2015 | £41,000 | £57,933 | 54 |
| 2014 | £38,000 | £53,910 | 58 |
| 2013 | £37,100 | £53,383 | 62 |
| 2012 | £40,000 | £58,875 | 62 |
| 2011 | £45,000 | £67,933 | 69 |
| 2010 | £56,800 | £89,077 | 54 |
| 2009 | £47,100 | £75,714 | 75 |
| 2008 | £70,000 | £114,745 | 80 |
| 2007 | £61,800 | £104,830 | 218 |
| 2006 | £47,800 | £82,975 | 232 |
| 2005 | £34,000 | £60,506 | 256 |
| 2004 | £22,000 | £39,956 | 286 |
| 2003 | £18,400 | £33,897 | 204 |
| 2002 | £15,000 | £28,222 | 220 |
| 2001 | £13,600 | £26,145 | 178 |
| 2000 | £14,500 | £28,456 | 128 |
| 1999 | £13,000 | £25,908 | 95 |
| 1998 | £12,000 | £24,223 | 109 |
| 1997 | £13,500 | £27,686 | 97 |
| 1996 | £15,000 | £31,634 | 105 |
| 1995 | £15,000 | £32,608 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical BB9 7 home went from £15,000 in 1995 to £84,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 158%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BB9 7 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 (+54.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−32.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB9 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.3% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in BB9 7
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 14 sales completed in BB9 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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.
Rents around BB9 7
The local authority for BB9 7 is Pendle, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £652 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Pendle
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £84,200 median sold price, £652 a month is £7,824 a year, a gross yield of 9.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the BB9 7 market
This is a thin market: 14 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. Within BB9, this sector trades 38% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on BB9 7 (Barrowford)
How much did a house sell for in BB9 7 (Barrowford)?
Are property prices falling in BB9 7 (Barrowford)?
Is BB9 7 (Barrowford) a good place to buy a house?
Will BB9 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 7: 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
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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BB
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%) | — | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BB9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BB9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BB9 0 | £111,000 | 53 |
| BB9 5 | £150,000 | 40 |
| BB9 6 | £238,000 | 33 |
| 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 7? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BB9 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB9 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB9 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
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See every individual BB9 7 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.
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.