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Blackpool Town Centre market report FY1 5, Blackpool

The standing FY1 5 (Blackpool Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,407 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in FY1 5 (Blackpool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.

Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the typical home in FY1 5 (Blackpool) sold for £119,500 in 2026, the median of 24 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier. The mean was £138,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,310 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,407 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

FY1 5 is one sector of FY1 (Blackpool): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.

What buyers actually paid in FY1 5

The 2026 median for FY1 5 is £119,500, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £138,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.

FY1 5 prices by floor area

By floor space, homes in FY1 5 have sold for about £1,310 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.

Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, FY1 5 runs 58% below it.

In cash terms the typical FY1 5 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £119,500 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 57%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 34% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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

The register shows 24 FY1 5 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 193 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 FY1 5

For renting purposes FY1 5 sits in Blackpool. The ONS average private rent there is £704 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £491 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,028, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

Against the £119,500 median purchase price, a rent of £704 a month (£8,448 a year) works out at a 7.1% 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.

The shape of the FY1 5 market

Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes FY1 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.

Common questions on FY1 5 (Blackpool Town Centre)

Will FY1 5 prices rise from here?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

FY1's current homes for sale

Moving up a bedroom in FY: the cost

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the FY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in FY1

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are FY1's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full FY1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how FY1 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in FY1 5: what the record supports

Take it further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to FY1 5. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual FY1 5 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.