Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 27,374 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.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
BB9 is the postcode district covering Nelson, Barrowford, Blacko in Nelson. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BB9 sits
Click the map to open BB9 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£125,000median sold price, 2026
+25%five-year change (cash)
585sales in the last 12 months
6.3%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in BB9 sells for
The 2026 median in BB9 is £125,000, from 160 registered sales; the mean, £160,600, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so BB9 trades 54% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BB9 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£125,000
£125,000
160
2025
£112,000
£112,000
761
2024
£105,000
£109,029
726
2023
£97,200
£104,305
720
2022
£100,000
£114,523
814
2021
£100,000
£123,656
903
2020
£80,000
£101,377
677
2019
£71,000
£90,891
798
2018
£73,000
£95,038
753
2017
£70,000
£93,243
775
2016
£67,700
£92,501
770
2015
£64,500
£89,010
714
2014
£60,000
£83,133
613
2013
£63,000
£88,534
546
2012
£69,200
£99,475
446
2011
£65,000
£95,833
443
2010
£70,000
£107,214
461
2009
£65,000
£102,048
429
2008
£80,000
£128,074
601
2007
£75,000
£124,250
1,422
2006
£64,000
£108,501
1,697
2005
£45,000
£78,212
1,597
2004
£34,000
£60,308
1,817
2003
£26,500
£47,679
1,384
2002
£25,000
£45,939
1,446
2001
£27,500
£51,633
1,165
2000
£26,300
£50,408
915
1999
£27,400
£53,331
843
1998
£26,000
£51,257
879
1997
£25,000
£50,073
651
1996
£26,000
£53,552
632
1995
£25,200
£53,502
816
In cash terms the typical BB9 home went from £25,200 in 1995 to £125,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 134%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+11.6%
+11.6%
5 years (since 2021)
+4.6%
+0.2%
10 years (since 2016)
+6.3%
+3.1%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.4%
+0.7%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
BB9 recorded 585 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 636 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around BB9
BB9 falls under Pendle, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £125,000 median sold price, £652 a month is £7,824 a year, a gross yield of 6.3%: 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.
Will BB9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
BB9 ranks 1 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, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.