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Barnacre-with-Bonds market report PR3 2, Preston
The standing PR3 2 (Barnacre-with-Bonds) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,369 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in PR3 2 (Preston) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in PR3 2 (Preston) came in at £246,500, out of 62 registered, down 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £319,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,770 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,369 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PR3 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PR3 (Preston). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where PR3 2 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 PR3 2 homes really sell for
In the PR3 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £246,500, from 62 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £319,100, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in PR3 2
Per square metre, PR3 2 homes have averaged around £2,770 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PR3 2 sits 14% below the national market.
The price of a typical PR3 2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £246,500 | £246,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 186 |
| 2024 | £260,500 | £276,965 | 222 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 205 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 292 |
| 2021 | £294,000 | £372,242 | 241 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 137 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 139 |
| 2018 | £219,000 | £291,931 | 109 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 138 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 143 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 79 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | £242,000 | £348,214 | 61 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 47 |
| 2011 | £247,500 | £373,630 | 52 |
| 2010 | £194,200 | £304,556 | 52 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 46 |
| 2008 | £207,500 | £340,136 | 58 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 120 |
| 2006 | £247,000 | £428,760 | 75 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 65 |
| 2004 | £227,500 | £413,184 | 84 |
| 2003 | £168,800 | £310,971 | 96 |
| 2002 | £124,700 | £234,622 | 87 |
| 2001 | £119,200 | £229,156 | 90 |
| 2000 | £89,000 | £174,663 | 76 |
| 1999 | £96,000 | £191,323 | 78 |
| 1998 | £78,800 | £159,063 | 78 |
| 1997 | £77,800 | £159,552 | 75 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 53 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical PR3 2 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £246,500 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 77%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 43% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PR3 2 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 (+35.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−18.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PR3 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.5% | −7.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | 0.0% | −2.7% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in PR3 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 62 sales completed in PR3 2. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 193 sales a year over the last five years against 87 before the financial crisis. 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.
What tenants pay around PR3 2
PR3 2 falls under Ribble Valley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £810 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £602 a month here against £1,386 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Ribble Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £246,500 median sold price, £810 a month is £9,720 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
Asked and answered: PR3 2 (Barnacre-with-Bonds)
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Will PR3 2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 16% over five years in cash but down 34% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in PR3 today
The live side of the market holds 45 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PR3 district, not just PR3 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
46% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 PR3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in PR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PR 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the PR area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in PR3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of PR3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PR3 0 | £320,000 | 40 |
| PR3 1 | £256,000 | 44 |
| PR3 3 | £217,500 | 66 |
| PR3 5 | £380,000 | 29 |
| PR3 6 | £255,000 | 7 |
Zoom out to the full PR3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PR3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in PR3 2: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PR3 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PR3 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PR3 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working PR3 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PR3 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PR3 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PR3 2 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.