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Barrowford market report BB9 9, Nelson
The BB9 9 (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: 4,051 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB9 9 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 19 registered 2026 sales put the BB9 9 (Nelson) median at £82,000, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £95,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,190 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,051 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BB9 9 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 9 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 9
The BB9 9 median stands at £82,000 for 2026, built from 19 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £95,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
BB9 9 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BB9 9 sales average about £1,190 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB9 9 runs 71% below it.
BB9 9'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £82,000 | £82,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £89,000 | £91,128 | 88 |
| 2024 | £71,200 | £75,700 | 76 |
| 2023 | £71,000 | £78,012 | 63 |
| 2022 | £75,000 | £87,946 | 89 |
| 2021 | £70,000 | £88,629 | 90 |
| 2020 | £55,000 | £71,364 | 69 |
| 2019 | £60,000 | £78,646 | 108 |
| 2018 | £47,200 | £62,918 | 66 |
| 2017 | £49,000 | £66,831 | 87 |
| 2016 | £49,200 | £68,831 | 113 |
| 2015 | £37,500 | £52,988 | 107 |
| 2014 | £38,200 | £54,193 | 86 |
| 2013 | £30,300 | £43,599 | 74 |
| 2012 | £40,000 | £58,875 | 58 |
| 2011 | £39,000 | £58,875 | 74 |
| 2010 | £42,500 | £66,651 | 88 |
| 2009 | £56,000 | £90,020 | 45 |
| 2008 | £60,000 | £98,353 | 99 |
| 2007 | £60,000 | £101,777 | 270 |
| 2006 | £49,000 | £85,058 | 314 |
| 2005 | £38,500 | £68,514 | 329 |
| 2004 | £27,000 | £49,037 | 363 |
| 2003 | £19,500 | £35,924 | 225 |
| 2002 | £15,500 | £29,163 | 232 |
| 2001 | £16,200 | £31,144 | 135 |
| 2000 | £14,800 | £29,045 | 117 |
| 1999 | £15,500 | £30,891 | 117 |
| 1998 | £16,000 | £32,297 | 134 |
| 1997 | £17,000 | £34,864 | 99 |
| 1996 | £18,500 | £39,016 | 83 |
| 1995 | £18,700 | £40,651 | 134 |
In cash terms the typical BB9 9 home went from £18,700 in 1995 to £82,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 102%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. 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 9 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 (+42.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−24.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB9 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 19 sales completed in BB9 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 248 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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.
What homes rent for around BB9 9
For renting purposes BB9 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Pendle
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £82,000 median purchase price, a rent of £652 a month (£7,824 a year) works out at a 9.5% 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 BB9 9 is
This is a thin market: 19 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 39% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on BB9 9 (Barrowford)
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The questions people bring to BB9 9 (Barrowford)
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: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £82,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Will BB9 9 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% 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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BB prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BB area. 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. 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.
BB area districts: five years of change
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 5 | £150,000 | 40 |
| BB9 6 | £238,000 | 33 |
| BB9 7 | £84,200 | 14 |
| BB9 8 | £140,000 | 60 |
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 9? 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 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BB9 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BB9 9 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 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BB9 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BB9 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.