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Britannia market report OL13 9, Bacup
The OL13 9 (Britannia) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,830 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in OL13 9 (Bacup) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 38 registered 2026 sales put the OL13 9 (Bacup) median at £177,500, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £201,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,040 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,830 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like OL13 9 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 9 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 OL13 9 homes really sell for
In the OL13 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £177,500, from 38 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £201,500, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
OL13 9 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in OL13 9 have sold for about £2,040 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, OL13 9 runs 38% below it.
OL13 9'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 | £177,500 | £177,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 117 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 93 |
| 2023 | £137,000 | £150,530 | 91 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 135 |
| 2021 | £162,500 | £205,746 | 142 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 126 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 142 |
| 2018 | £139,000 | £185,290 | 117 |
| 2017 | £138,000 | £188,218 | 167 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 137 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 87 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 116 |
| 2013 | £104,600 | £150,509 | 75 |
| 2012 | £111,000 | £163,378 | 61 |
| 2011 | £102,500 | £154,736 | 80 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 90 |
| 2009 | £117,300 | £188,561 | 90 |
| 2008 | £135,500 | £222,113 | 136 |
| 2007 | £127,800 | £216,784 | 232 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 205 |
| 2005 | £88,500 | £157,494 | 134 |
| 2004 | £66,000 | £119,869 | 201 |
| 2003 | £56,500 | £104,087 | 178 |
| 2002 | £38,000 | £71,497 | 187 |
| 2001 | £38,200 | £73,438 | 120 |
| 2000 | £35,000 | £68,688 | 123 |
| 1999 | £35,500 | £70,750 | 89 |
| 1998 | £41,800 | £84,376 | 107 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 89 |
| 1996 | £28,000 | £59,051 | 63 |
| 1995 | £36,200 | £78,693 | 62 |
In cash terms the typical OL13 9 home went from £36,200 in 1995 to £177,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 126%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OL13 9 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 2003 (+48.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−22.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.4% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
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.
The register shows 38 OL13 9 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 173 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How OL13 9 trades
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes OL13 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What homes rent for around OL13 9
For renting purposes OL13 9 sits in Rossendale. The ONS average private rent there is £808 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £588 a month here against £1,224 for four or more bedrooms.
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.
Common questions on OL13 9 (Britannia)
Is OL13 9 (Britannia) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in OL13 9 (Britannia)?
Are property prices falling in OL13 9 (Britannia)?
Are OL13 9 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 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 OL13 now
Turning to what is actually available: 8 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OL13 district, not just OL13 9: 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" 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 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 8 | £177,500 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full OL13 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OL13 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in OL13 9? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OL13 9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim OL13 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with OL13 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual OL13 9 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.
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.