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Britannia market report OL13, Bacup
The OL13 (Britannia) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,646 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL13 (Bacup) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in OL13 (Bacup) came in at £171,800, out of 94 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £194,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,646 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district OL13 covering Bacup, Britannia, Stacksteads sits in Bacup. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where OL13 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.
OL13 sold prices: where the market stands
94 sales were registered in OL13 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £171,800. The mean works out at £194,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in OL13
By floor space, homes in OL13 have sold for about £1,920 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so OL13 trades 40% below the country as a whole.
OL13's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £171,800 | £171,800 | 94 |
| 2025 | £160,500 | £164,338 | 260 |
| 2024 | £156,200 | £166,073 | 220 |
| 2023 | £136,500 | £149,980 | 197 |
| 2022 | £143,000 | £167,684 | 293 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 329 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 251 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 265 |
| 2018 | £117,500 | £156,630 | 269 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 308 |
| 2016 | £107,000 | £149,694 | 284 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 214 |
| 2014 | £91,000 | £129,099 | 237 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 154 |
| 2012 | £88,000 | £129,525 | 147 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 171 |
| 2010 | £88,700 | £139,104 | 178 |
| 2009 | £103,000 | £165,573 | 166 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 253 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 464 |
| 2006 | £80,000 | £138,870 | 431 |
| 2005 | £76,800 | £136,673 | 328 |
| 2004 | £65,000 | £118,053 | 543 |
| 2003 | £50,200 | £92,481 | 436 |
| 2002 | £35,800 | £67,357 | 475 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 360 |
| 2000 | £33,000 | £64,763 | 337 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 233 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 237 |
| 1997 | £31,000 | £63,575 | 209 |
| 1996 | £28,500 | £60,105 | 146 |
| 1995 | £28,000 | £60,868 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical OL13 home went from £28,000 in 1995 to £171,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 182%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the OL13 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 (+40.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−13.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 56% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £305,000 against £78,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, OL13
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £305,000 | 21 | 1,824 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 21 | 1,911 |
| Terraced | £137,500 | 52 | 4,809 |
| Flats | £78,000 (2024) | – | 59 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in OL13
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 208 sales completed in OL13. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 422 sales a year before the financial crisis and 213 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 kind of market OL13 is
By median price OL13 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
The rental side of OL13
OL13 falls under Rossendale, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £808 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £171,800 median sold price, £808 a month is £9,696 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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.
OL13 (Britannia): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in OL13 (Britannia)?
Are property prices falling in OL13 (Britannia)?
Is OL13 (Britannia) a good place to buy a house?
Will OL13 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 OL13 today
Everything above is what homes in OL13 sold for. The live side of the market holds 8 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the OL13 median sold price.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every OL13 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in OL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OL area. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
OL13 ranks 15 of 16 in the OL 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.
Winners and losers across the OL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside OL13, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OL13 0 | £141,500 | 22 |
| OL13 8 | £177,500 | 34 |
| OL13 9 | £177,500 | 38 |
How OL13 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the OL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| OL3 | £295,000 | +2% |
| OL15 | £227,800 | +21% |
| OL2 | £225,000 | +25% |
| OL9 | £215,000 | +28% |
| OL11 | £210,000 | +24% |
| OL16 | £210,000 | +35% |
| OL7 | £201,200 | +34% |
| OL5 | £195,000 | +15% |
| OL10 | £195,000 | +23% |
| OL12 | £195,000 | +18% |
| OL4 | £194,000 | +16% |
| OL6 | £192,500 | +23% |
| OL14 | £185,000 | +19% |
| OL1 | £180,000 | +40% |
| OL8 | £172,500 | +33% |
| OL13 (this report) | £171,800 | +15% |
Selling in OL13? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in OL13, open the average prices map and zoom from the OL13 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded OL13 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Two maps carry on from here: every OL13 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.
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.