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Bretherton market report PR26, Leyland
The standing PR26 (Bretherton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,409 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PR26 (Leyland) 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 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 PR26 (Leyland) came in at £285,500, out of 66 registered, up 24% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £287,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,650 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,409 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PR26 is a postcode district covering Leyland, Bretherton, Croston in Leyland. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where PR26 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 PR26 prices, from the sold record
Take the 66 registered 2026 sales in PR26 and the middle price, the median, is £285,500. The mean lands at £287,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
PR26 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PR26 sales average about £2,650 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PR26 sits 0% above the national market.
A typical PR26 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,500 | £285,500 | 66 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 299 |
| 2024 | £259,400 | £275,795 | 238 |
| 2023 | £263,000 | £288,973 | 217 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 337 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 280 |
| 2020 | £214,000 | £277,669 | 206 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 217 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 257 |
| 2017 | £187,500 | £255,731 | 257 |
| 2016 | £174,000 | £243,428 | 178 |
| 2015 | £180,500 | £255,047 | 218 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 215 |
| 2013 | £155,500 | £223,749 | 142 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 137 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 142 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 112 |
| 2009 | £162,500 | £261,220 | 128 |
| 2008 | £152,500 | £249,980 | 146 |
| 2007 | £173,000 | £293,456 | 264 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 265 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 197 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 264 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 378 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 506 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 309 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 287 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 279 |
| 1998 | £71,200 | £143,722 | 274 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 255 |
| 1996 | £55,800 | £117,680 | 199 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical PR26 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £285,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 163%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the PR26 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 2002 (+34.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PR26 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.8% | +7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £320,000 against £185,000 for a flat, 1.7 times the price.
Median by property type, PR26
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 | £330,000 | 30 | 3,339 |
| Semi-detached | £207,200 | 19 | 2,286 |
| Terraced | £227,500 | 17 | 1,587 |
| Flats | £185,000 (2025) | – | 166 |
Sales activity in PR26
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 175 PR26 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 309 sales a year before the financial crisis and 231 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 PR26 is
PR26 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
What tenants pay around PR26
PR26 falls under South Ribble, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £793 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £553 a month here against £1,251 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Ribble
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £285,500 median purchase price, a rent of £793 a month (£9,516 a year) works out at a 3.3% 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.
Asked and answered: PR26 (Bretherton)
Is PR26 (Bretherton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PR26 (Bretherton)?
Are property prices falling in PR26 (Bretherton)?
Where do PR26 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat 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.
PR26's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in PR26 sold for. The live side of the market holds 27 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 16% below the PR26 median sold price.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Coronation Court, Croston, Leyland, L...
- Fossdale Moss, Leyland, PR26
- The Laund, Leyland, Lancashire, PR26
"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 PR26 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 PR
Real sold prices by size across the PR 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 | — | £243,000 | £325,000 (+34%) | £475,000 (+46%) | £654,500 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £164,975 | £189,950 (+15%) | £228,000 (+20%) | £295,000 (+29%) | £410,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £126,180 | £138,000 (+9%) | £167,850 (+22%) | £233,000 (+39%) | £300,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £98,000 | £130,000 (+33%) | £195,000 (+50%) | £280,000 (+44%) | — |
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
PR26 ranks 1 of 11 in the PR 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, PR area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside PR26, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PR26 6 | £290,000 | 24 |
| PR26 7 | £275,000 | 27 |
| PR26 8 | £167,500 | 3 |
| PR26 9 | £289,600 | 12 |
How PR26 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PR26 (this report) | £285,500 | +24% |
| PR3 | £260,000 | -5% |
| PR4 | £251,000 | +9% |
| PR8 | £240,000 | +14% |
| PR6 | £231,200 | +22% |
| PR7 | £220,000 | +22% |
| PR25 | £205,000 | +13% |
| PR9 | £200,000 | +13% |
| PR2 | £194,000 | +13% |
| PR5 | £182,200 | +5% |
| PR1 | £170,500 | +22% |
Before you sell in PR26: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PR26, open the average prices map and zoom from the PR26 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PR26 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim PR26.
Go deeper
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See every individual PR26 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.