Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,362 sales registered with HM Land Registry in OL13 (Bacup) 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 May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
OL13 is the postcode district covering Bacup, Britannia, Stacksteads in Bacup. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where OL13 sits
Click the map to open OL13 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£156,000median sold price, 2026
+16%five-year change (cash)
257sales in the last 12 months
6.2%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in OL13 sells for
The 2026 median in OL13 is £156,000, from 66 registered sales; the mean, £169,500, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so OL13 trades 43% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical OL13 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£156,000
£156,000
66
2025
£155,000
£155,000
311
2024
£140,000
£145,372
296
2023
£130,000
£139,502
253
2022
£135,000
£154,606
368
2021
£135,000
£166,935
413
2020
£100,000
£126,722
309
2019
£105,000
£134,416
341
2018
£110,000
£143,208
351
2017
£108,200
£144,127
358
2016
£105,000
£143,465
315
2015
£85,000
£117,300
257
2014
£85,000
£117,771
282
2013
£90,000
£126,477
167
2012
£86,000
£123,625
149
2011
£100,000
£147,436
171
2010
£88,700
£135,856
178
2009
£102,000
£160,137
167
2008
£100,000
£160,093
253
2007
£100,000
£165,666
464
2006
£80,000
£135,627
432
2005
£76,800
£133,481
328
2004
£65,000
£115,296
543
2003
£50,200
£90,321
436
2002
£35,800
£65,784
475
2001
£32,000
£60,082
360
2000
£33,000
£63,250
337
1999
£36,000
£70,071
233
1998
£40,000
£78,857
237
1997
£31,000
£62,090
209
1996
£28,500
£58,701
146
1995
£28,000
£59,446
157
In cash terms the typical OL13 home went from £28,000 in 1995 to £156,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 162%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 7% 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, 2012 (−14.0%). 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)
+0.6%
+0.6%
5 years (since 2021)
+2.9%
−1.3%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.0%
+0.8%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.4%
+0.7%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
OL13 recorded 257 sales in the last twelve months of data. 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 259 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 OL13
OL13 falls under Rossendale, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £808 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £588 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,224, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Rossendale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £156,000 median sold price, £808 a month is £9,696 a year, a gross yield of 6.2%: 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.
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 16% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
OL13 ranks 14 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.
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.
Inside OL13, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.