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Barrowford market report BB9, Nelson
The standing BB9 (Barrowford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 25,699 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BB9 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BB9 (Nelson) is £135,000, from 219 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier; the mean is £162,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,560 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 25,699 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BB9 is a postcode district covering Nelson, Barrowford, Blacko in Nelson. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BB9 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
219 sales were registered in BB9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £135,000. The mean works out at £162,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in BB9
Per square metre, BB9 homes have averaged around £1,560 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BB9 runs 53% below it.
BB9'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 | £135,000 | £135,000 | 219 |
| 2025 | £120,000 | £122,870 | 616 |
| 2024 | £110,000 | £116,953 | 577 |
| 2023 | £111,000 | £121,962 | 527 |
| 2022 | £108,500 | £127,229 | 648 |
| 2021 | £105,000 | £132,944 | 725 |
| 2020 | £84,000 | £108,992 | 527 |
| 2019 | £75,000 | £98,307 | 646 |
| 2018 | £74,000 | £98,643 | 613 |
| 2017 | £70,000 | £95,473 | 623 |
| 2016 | £70,000 | £97,931 | 675 |
| 2015 | £67,000 | £94,671 | 611 |
| 2014 | £65,000 | £92,214 | 531 |
| 2013 | £63,000 | £90,651 | 517 |
| 2012 | £69,200 | £101,854 | 446 |
| 2011 | £65,000 | £98,125 | 443 |
| 2010 | £70,000 | £109,778 | 461 |
| 2009 | £65,000 | £104,488 | 429 |
| 2008 | £80,000 | £131,137 | 601 |
| 2007 | £75,000 | £127,221 | 1,422 |
| 2006 | £64,000 | £111,096 | 1,697 |
| 2005 | £45,000 | £80,082 | 1,597 |
| 2004 | £34,000 | £61,751 | 1,817 |
| 2003 | £26,500 | £48,819 | 1,384 |
| 2002 | £25,000 | £47,037 | 1,446 |
| 2001 | £27,500 | £52,867 | 1,165 |
| 2000 | £26,300 | £51,614 | 915 |
| 1999 | £27,400 | £54,607 | 843 |
| 1998 | £26,000 | £52,483 | 879 |
| 1997 | £25,000 | £51,270 | 651 |
| 1996 | £26,000 | £54,833 | 632 |
| 1995 | £25,200 | £54,781 | 816 |
In cash terms the typical BB9 home went from £25,200 in 1995 to £135,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 146%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the BB9 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 (+42.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BB9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.5% | +9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.8% | +3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 71% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £338,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, BB9
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £338,000 | 28 | 2,602 |
| Semi-detached | £186,200 | 48 | 4,600 |
| Terraced | £100,000 | 132 | 18,115 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 11 | 357 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
BB9 recorded 478 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,430 sales a year before the financial crisis and 517 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 homes rent for around BB9
For renting purposes BB9 sits in Pendle. The ONS average private rent there is £652 a month (May 2026). 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 £135,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.8%. 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.
Reading the BB9 market
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. In its area's price order BB9 comes 11 of 13, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Common questions on BB9 (Barrowford)
How much did a house sell for in BB9 (Barrowford)?
Are property prices falling in BB9 (Barrowford)?
Is BB9 (Barrowford) a good place to buy a house?
Are BB9 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 29% over five years in cash and flat 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
Everything above is what homes in BB9 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 185 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% above the BB9 median sold price.
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
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BB9 ranks 2 of 13 in the BB area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside BB9, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| BB9 9 | £82,000 | 19 |
How BB9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BB7 | £257,500 | +3% |
| BB4 | £189,000 | +11% |
| BB2 | £180,000 | +22% |
| BB12 | £162,000 | +8% |
| BB6 | £161,900 | -5% |
| BB1 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB18 | £160,000 | +13% |
| BB3 | £155,000 | +16% |
| BB8 | £143,800 | -3% |
| BB5 | £140,000 | +13% |
| BB9 (this report) | £135,000 | +29% |
| BB11 | £135,000 | +35% |
| BB10 | £125,000 | +7% |
Selling in BB9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BB9, open the average prices map and zoom from the BB9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BB9 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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BB9.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BB9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BB9 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.