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Britannia market report OL13 8, Bacup
The OL13 8 (Britannia) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,568 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OL13 8 (Bacup) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in OL13 8 (Bacup) sold for £177,500 in 2026, the median of 34 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £211,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,568 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like OL13 8 is a single group of streets within OL13 (Bacup), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OL13 8 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.
The going rate for a home in OL13 8
Take the 34 registered 2026 sales in OL13 8 and the middle price, the median, is £177,500. The mean lands at £211,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in OL13 8
A square metre of OL13 8 home has cost about £1,980 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OL13 8 38% below the national figure.
A typical OL13 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £177,500 | £177,500 | 34 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 73 |
| 2024 | £167,600 | £178,193 | 68 |
| 2023 | £168,000 | £184,591 | 45 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 75 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 97 |
| 2020 | £112,000 | £145,322 | 66 |
| 2019 | £108,100 | £141,693 | 70 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 91 |
| 2017 | £112,500 | £153,439 | 67 |
| 2016 | £119,500 | £167,182 | 76 |
| 2015 | £113,500 | £160,376 | 78 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 65 |
| 2013 | £112,000 | £161,157 | 40 |
| 2012 | £96,000 | £141,300 | 44 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 48 |
| 2010 | £80,800 | £126,715 | 49 |
| 2009 | £79,000 | £126,993 | 40 |
| 2008 | £104,800 | £171,789 | 56 |
| 2007 | £91,000 | £154,361 | 122 |
| 2006 | £77,800 | £135,051 | 120 |
| 2005 | £76,500 | £136,139 | 98 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 173 |
| 2003 | £58,500 | £107,771 | 133 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 160 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 146 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 115 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 81 |
| 1998 | £46,500 | £93,864 | 81 |
| 1997 | £31,200 | £63,985 | 65 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 45 |
| 1995 | £28,000 | £60,868 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical OL13 8 home went from £28,000 in 1995 to £177,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 192%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL13 8 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 2021 (+60.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−24.6%). 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) | +22.4% | +19.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OL13 8
How many homes change hands
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.
The register shows 34 OL13 8 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 133 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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.
The rental side of OL13 8
OL13 8 falls under Rossendale, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £808 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £588 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,224 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Rossendale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£808 a month is £9,696 a year, which against the £177,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. 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 OL13 8 market
This is a thin market: 34 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: OL13 8 (Britannia)
How much did a house sell for in OL13 8 (Britannia)?
Are property prices falling in OL13 8 (Britannia)?
Is OL13 8 (Britannia) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to OL13 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
OL13's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 8 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL13 district, not just OL13 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 OL13 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.
Moving up a bedroom in OL: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the OL area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £257,697 | £349,995 (+36%) | £495,000 (+41%) | £620,000 (+25%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £205,000 (+14%) | £251,000 (+22%) | £320,000 (+27%) | £375,000 (+17%) |
| Terraced | £135,000 | £149,000 (+10%) | £172,000 (+15%) | £212,500 (+24%) | £260,000 (+22%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £145,000 (+21%) | £205,000 (+41%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, OL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OL13
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OL13, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL13 0 | £141,500 | 22 |
| OL13 9 | £177,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full OL13 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL13 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in OL13 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in OL13 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from OL13 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded OL13 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every OL13 8 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.
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.