Sold Price History


The Ferns, Bacup house prices

The Ferns, Bacup house prices are built from 44 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 30 May 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £89,950.

Median price paid

£89,950

Median per m²

£1,193

HM Land Registry44 sales10 with floor areaLatest sale 30 May 2025

Section 01

How The Ferns, Bacup prices moved

There are too few years of sales in The Ferns, Bacup to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.

Section 02

The most recent sales

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
2230 May 2025Detached£285,000£291,196
719 Mar 2021Detached£160,000£202,151
422 Feb 2019Terraced£173,000£226,280
1622 May 2017Semi-detached£108,000£146,988
12a13 Dec 2016Semi-detached£90,000£125,644
715 Mar 2016Detached£120,000£167,525
717 Oct 2014Detached£93,000£133,398
157 Jun 2013Semi-detached£98,000£142,896
1630 Nov 2012Semi-detached£111,000£165,794
1022 Jun 2012Semi-detached£119,000£177,744
12a8 Jun 2010Semi-detached£102,000£162,877
12a22 Dec 2009Semi-detached£115,000£188,986
1029 Feb 2008Detached£139,950£234,916
415 Nov 2007Terraced£136,000£236,449
159 Nov 2007Semi-detached£123,000£213,847
1531 Oct 2007Semi-detached£122,000£212,109
1112 Jan 2007Semi-detached£119,995£208,623
1113 Jun 2006Semi-detached£92,000£163,788
822 Oct 2004Detached£99,000£183,671
12a14 Jun 2004Semi-detached£87,500£162,336
1528 May 2004Semi-detached£87,950£163,170
1621 May 2004Semi-detached£89,000£165,118
712 Dec 2003Detached£97,000£183,338
161 Nov 2002Semi-detached£70,000£135,021
1722 Oct 2002Semi-detached£69,950£134,924
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

Section 03

Homes that sold twice

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to The Ferns, Bacup values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
22 the Ferns£89,000 (2001)£285,000 (2025)+5.0%+2.2%
7 the Ferns£64,950 (2001)£160,000 (2021)+4.6%+2.3%
4 the Ferns£43,000 (1997)£173,000 (2019)+6.5%+4.2%
16 the Ferns£48,000 (2001)£108,000 (2017)+5.2%+2.8%
12A the Ferns£51,950 (2000)£90,000 (2016)+3.5%+1.2%
15 the Ferns£58,000 (2001)£98,000 (2013)+4.5%+1.9%
10 the Ferns£59,950 (2000)£119,000 (2012)+5.9%+3.3%
11 the Ferns£52,950 (2000)£119,995 (2007)+12.4%+10.2%
8 the Ferns£69,950 (2000)£99,000 (2004)+9.1%+7.0%
17 the Ferns£56,950 (2001)£69,950 (2002)+22.8%+20.8%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Ferns, Bacup is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached2454.5%£87,950£48,000 – £123,000
Detached1840.9%£89,950£43,000 – £285,000
Terraced24.5%£136,000£136,000 – £173,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in The Ferns, Bacup

41 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3 freehold — 93.2% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £89,950 and the median freehold sale £136,000 — a gap of +51.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold4193.2%£89,950
Freehold36.8%£136,000
New build1738.6%£59,950
Existing home2761.4%£102,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -41.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

Section 09

How The Ferns, Bacup compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Ferns, Bacup sits below that national figure — -42.9%.

Within Bacup the street ranks 122 of 297 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £79,950 (+12.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,193 per square metre, across 10 of the 44 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £43,000 to £285,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Bacup house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in The Ferns, Bacup?

The median price paid in The Ferns, Bacup across every sale on the register is £89,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in The Ferns, Bacup?

44 sales are on record for The Ferns, Bacup, the most recent completing on 30 May 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were The Ferns, Bacup house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £61,475, set in 2001. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in The Ferns, Bacup?

£1,193 per square metre, from the 10 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 30 May 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “The Ferns, Bacup house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.