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Blackpool Town Centre market report FY1 6, Blackpool
The FY1 6 (Blackpool Town Centre) 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: 5,023 sales registered with HM Land Registry in FY1 6 (Blackpool) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 47 registered 2026 sales put the FY1 6 (Blackpool) median at £122,500, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £124,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,290 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,023 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like FY1 6 is a single group of streets within FY1 (Blackpool), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where FY1 6 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.
Today's FY1 6 prices, from the sold record
The FY1 6 median stands at £122,500 for 2026, built from 47 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £124,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in FY1 6
The last five years of sales put FY1 6 at roughly £1,290 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so FY1 6 trades 57% below the country as a whole.
FY1 6'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 | £122,500 | £122,500 | 47 |
| 2025 | £105,000 | £107,511 | 104 |
| 2024 | £105,000 | £111,637 | 95 |
| 2023 | £110,000 | £120,863 | 121 |
| 2022 | £113,000 | £132,505 | 139 |
| 2021 | £105,000 | £132,944 | 124 |
| 2020 | £90,000 | £116,777 | 89 |
| 2019 | £90,000 | £117,968 | 90 |
| 2018 | £88,000 | £117,306 | 79 |
| 2017 | £91,000 | £124,115 | 103 |
| 2016 | £78,000 | £109,123 | 83 |
| 2015 | £85,000 | £120,105 | 93 |
| 2014 | £82,000 | £116,331 | 106 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 110 |
| 2012 | £76,000 | £111,863 | 71 |
| 2011 | £79,000 | £119,260 | 103 |
| 2010 | £79,000 | £123,892 | 88 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 107 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 124 |
| 2007 | £107,000 | £181,502 | 270 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 270 |
| 2005 | £93,500 | £166,392 | 252 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 296 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 358 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 333 |
| 2001 | £42,400 | £81,512 | 262 |
| 2000 | £41,000 | £80,463 | 221 |
| 1999 | £38,200 | £76,131 | 188 |
| 1998 | £36,200 | £73,072 | 207 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 194 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 154 |
| 1995 | £36,600 | £79,563 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical FY1 6 home went from £36,600 in 1995 to £122,500 in 2026, roughly 3.3 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 54%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 33% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the FY1 6 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 2004 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What FY1 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +16.7% | +13.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.0% | −1.7% |
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.
Sales activity in FY1 6
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.
FY1 6 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 283 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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 tenants pay around FY1 6
The local authority for FY1 6 is Blackpool, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £704 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Blackpool
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £122,500 median purchase price, a rent of £704 a month (£8,448 a year) works out at a 6.9% 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 6 market
This is a thin market: 47 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.
FY1 6 (Blackpool Town Centre): the questions that come up
Is FY1 6 (Blackpool Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in FY1 6 (Blackpool Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in FY1 6 (Blackpool Town Centre)?
Are FY1 6 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 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
On the market in FY1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 193 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole FY1 district, not just FY1 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every FY1 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.
What another bedroom costs in FY
Real sold prices by size across the FY 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 | £290,995 (+29%) | £420,000 (+44%) | £603,750 (+44%) |
| Semi-detached | £150,000 | £160,000 (+7%) | £182,500 (+14%) | £238,500 (+31%) | £310,000 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £105,275 | £117,500 (+12%) | £130,000 (+11%) | £144,475 (+11%) | £193,500 (+34%) |
| Flat | £82,500 | £122,500 (+48%) | £255,000 (+108%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the FY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
FY 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 FY1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are FY1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| FY1 1 | £115,000 | 1 |
| FY1 2 | £95,500 | 28 |
| FY1 3 | £85,000 | 13 |
| FY1 4 | £115,000 | 23 |
| FY1 5 | £119,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full FY1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how FY1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in FY1 6? 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 FY1 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from FY1 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded FY1 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working FY1 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim FY1 6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with FY1 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual FY1 6 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.
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.