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Becconsall market report PR4, Preston
The standing PR4 (Becconsall) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 34,999 HM Land Registry entries for PR4 (Preston), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 487 registered 2026 sales put the PR4 (Preston) median at £254,000, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £277,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 34,999 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
PR4 is a postcode district covering Becconsall, Catforth, Clifton in Preston. 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 PR4 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.
PR4 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for PR4 is £254,000, taken from 487 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £277,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in PR4
The last five years of sales put PR4 at roughly £2,590 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PR4 sits 11% below the national market.
PR4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £254,000 | £254,000 | 487 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 1,291 |
| 2024 | £265,000 | £281,749 | 1,265 |
| 2023 | £263,000 | £288,973 | 1,219 |
| 2022 | £241,500 | £283,186 | 1,650 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 1,739 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 1,310 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 1,234 |
| 2018 | £216,200 | £288,199 | 1,280 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 1,327 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 1,206 |
| 2015 | £181,000 | £255,753 | 1,029 |
| 2014 | £180,300 | £255,787 | 913 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 781 |
| 2012 | £169,500 | £249,483 | 568 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 595 |
| 2010 | £177,000 | £277,582 | 643 |
| 2009 | £168,000 | £270,061 | 628 |
| 2008 | £173,000 | £283,584 | 515 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 1,212 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 1,233 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 900 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 1,113 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 1,347 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 1,504 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 1,367 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 1,239 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 1,257 |
| 1998 | £68,500 | £138,272 | 1,138 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 1,243 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 1,040 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 726 |
In cash terms the typical PR4 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £254,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 95%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PR4 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 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.6%). 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 year (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.3% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
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. A detached home currently trades at £335,000 against £112,200 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, PR4
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 | £335,000 | 207 | 15,639 |
| Semi-detached | £221,000 | 184 | 13,123 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 82 | 5,310 |
| Flats | £112,200 | 14 | 927 |
How many homes change hands in PR4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
PR4 recorded 903 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 1,182 sales a year recently, against 1,239 a year before 2008. 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 PR4
The local authority for PR4 is Fylde, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £858 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £601 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,385 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Fylde
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £254,000 median sold price, £858 a month is £10,296 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
How PR4 trades
PR4 sits 3 of 11 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: PR4 (Becconsall)
Is PR4 (Becconsall) a good place to buy a house?
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What happens to PR4 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in PR4 right now
Everything above is what homes in PR4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 8 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 27% below the PR4 median sold price.
PR4 registered 903 sales in the last twelve months; the 8 homes listed now would take about a week to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
14% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 PR4 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The PR4 sales calendar
Across the 7,164 sales completed in PR4 from 2021 to 2025, September was the busiest month for completions (10.4% of the total) and January the quietest (6.0%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 430 | 6.0% |
| February | 526 | 7.3% |
| March | 741 | 10.3% |
| April | 472 | 6.6% |
| May | 503 | 7.0% |
| June | 705 | 9.8% |
| July | 586 | 8.2% |
| August | 634 | 8.8% |
| September | 743 | 10.4% |
| October | 547 | 7.6% |
| November | 566 | 7.9% |
| December | 711 | 9.9% |
What another bedroom costs in PR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PR area, 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 | £215,000 | £250,000 (+16%) | £289,995 (+16%) | £357,000 (+23%) | £450,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £183,000 (+11%) | £210,000 (+15%) | £253,375 (+21%) | £325,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £138,000 (+6%) | £152,500 (+11%) | £190,000 (+25%) | £231,250 (+22%) |
| Flat | £90,000 | £115,000 (+28%) | £148,000 (+29%) | £205,000 (+39%) | £270,000 (+32%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
PR4 ranks 9 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.
PR area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PR4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PR4 0 | £282,000 | 127 |
| PR4 1 | £203,000 | 92 |
| PR4 2 | £220,000 | 58 |
| PR4 3 | £274,000 | 54 |
| PR4 4 | £255,200 | 40 |
| PR4 5 | £280,000 | 44 |
| PR4 6 | £289,500 | 72 |
How PR4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PR26 | £275,000 | +20% |
| PR3 | £266,400 | -3% |
| PR4 (this report) | £254,000 | +10% |
| PR8 | £240,000 | +14% |
| PR6 | £237,500 | +25% |
| PR7 | £222,000 | +23% |
| PR25 | £210,000 | +16% |
| PR9 | £202,000 | +14% |
| PR2 | £200,000 | +16% |
| PR5 | £185,000 | +7% |
| PR1 | £170,000 | +21% |
Selling in PR4? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PR4'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.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PR4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PR4 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.