Heys Lane, Blackburn house prices are built from 180 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £80,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +112.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +56.2%.
Median price paid
£80,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+112.9%
Change in real terms
+56.2%
Median per m²
£1,009
HM Land Registry180 sales31 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Heys Lane, Blackburn prices moved
The chart tracks the median Heys Lane, Blackburn house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £33,000 | £73,276 |
| 2000s | 9 | £75,475 | £137,493 |
| 2010s | 3 | £105,000 | £148,050 |
| 2020s | 4 | £97,500 | £99,620 |
The highest yearly median on record for Heys Lane, Blackburn is £165,000 in 2024; the lowest is £31,500 in 1999. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £42,450 to £165,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,259, so the real change over the whole record is +84.2% — about +2.13% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +112.9% in cash against +56.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | 1 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £129,250 | £132,060 |
| 4 | 18 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £80,000 | £81,739 |
| 164 | 13 Dec 2024 | Detached | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 244 | 31 Oct 2024 | Detached | £299,950 | £315,619 |
| 142 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £187,299 |
| 11 | 13 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £144,000 | £151,522 |
| 73 | 2 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 108 | 18 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £90,000 | £97,241 |
| 129 | 27 Oct 2023 | Detached | £248,000 | £267,954 |
| 133 | 18 Aug 2023 | Detached | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 134 | 24 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £107,500 | £116,149 |
| 102 | 8 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £115,000 | £124,253 |
| 90 | 12 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £105,000 | £113,448 |
| 70 | 8 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £110,200 | £127,676 |
| 36 | 21 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £90,500 | £104,852 |
| 105 | 26 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £153,000 | £193,306 |
| 55 | 1 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £163,000 | £205,941 |
| 12 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £75,000 | £94,758 |
| 130 | 11 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £98,000 | £123,817 |
| 242 | 26 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £97,000 | £122,554 |
| 32 | 19 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £85,000 | £107,392 |
| 85 | 14 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £207,163 |
| 100 | 4 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £95,000 | £123,003 |
| 42 | 14 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £95,500 | £123,650 |
| 34 | 12 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
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 Heys Lane, Blackburn values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 Heys Lane | £97,500 (2020) | £129,250 (2025) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 4 Heys Lane | £81,500 (2006) | £80,000 (2025) | -0.1% | -3.0% |
| 244 Heys Lane | £139,950 (2003) | £299,950 (2024) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
| 142 Heys Lane | £59,500 (2000) | £178,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 129 Heys Lane | £81,000 (1995) | £248,000 (2023) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| 133 Heys Lane | £89,950 (1996) | £245,000 (2023) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 102 Heys Lane | £78,500 (2018) | £115,000 (2023) | +7.9% | +3.5% |
| 90 Heys Lane | £60,000 (2011) | £105,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +1.8% |
| 36 Heys Lane | £53,000 (2004) | £90,500 (2022) | +3.0% | +0.4% |
| 105 Heys Lane | £138,000 (2017) | £153,000 (2021) | +2.6% | +0.7% |
| 12 Heys Lane | £36,950 (1996) | £75,000 (2021) | +2.9% | +0.7% |
| 130 Heys Lane | £84,000 (2005) | £98,000 (2021) | +1.0% | -1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Heys Lane, Blackburn is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 111 | 61.7% | £71,950 | £11,000 – £129,250 |
| Semi-detached | 38 | 21.1% | £88,000 | £35,000 – £186,000 |
| Detached | 31 | 17.2% | £89,950 | £7,500 – £299,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Heys Lane, Blackburn
27 of the sales on record are leasehold and 153 freehold — 15.0% 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 £84,000 and the median freehold sale £80,000 — a gap of -4.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 27 | 15.0% | £84,000 |
| Freehold | 153 | 85.0% | £80,000 |
| New build | 7 | 3.9% | £85,000 |
| Existing home | 173 | 96.1% | £80,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +6.3%. 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.
A further 13 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Heys Lane, Blackburn
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Blackburn with Darwen, 39.5% of 76,679 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 456 | 0.6% |
| B | 6,799 | 8.9% |
| C | 23,070 | 30.1% |
| D | 30,945 | 40.4% |
| E | 11,870 | 15.5% |
| F | 2,738 | 3.6% |
| G | 801 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Blackburn with Darwen at £712 a month as of Jun 2026 — £533 for a one-bedroom home and £779 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £80,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.68% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BB2, 547 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 222 violent, 12 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 82 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.3 times busier.
Against the 154,738 residents the 2021 census counted in Blackburn with Darwen, that is 3.54 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Heys Lane, Blackburn
The 2021 census counted 154,738 residents in Blackburn with Darwen across 58,767 households. 61.0% of those households own their home and 38.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
34 state and independent schools have a BB2 postcode: 24 primary, 7 secondary, 2 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,483 |
| Witton Park Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,243 |
| St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,051 |
| Blackburn Central High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,015 |
| Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School | Secondary | Free schools | 873 |
| Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 866 |
| Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School | Secondary | Free schools | 746 |
| The Olive School, Blackburn | Primary | Free schools | 638 |
| Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 463 |
| St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 419 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cherry Tree Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Blackburn Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Pleasington Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Ramsgreave & Wilpshire Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
Section 09
How Heys Lane, Blackburn compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Heys Lane, Blackburn sits below that national figure — -49.2%.
Within Blackburn the street ranks 835 of 1549 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £83,000 (-3.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,009 per square metre, across 31 of the 180 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 £7,500 to £299,950. 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.
Heys Lane, Blackburn sits in Blackburn with Darwen, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Blackburn with Darwen at 4.7 times median local earnings of £36,223 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Livesey Branch Road£69,500 median
- Bolton Road£60,000 median
- Preston Old Road£108,000 median
- Preston New Road£120,000 median
- Wensley Road£53,950 median
- Dukes Brow£67,750 median
- Infirmary Street£35,000 median
- Leamington Road£58,260 median
- Quebec Road£140,000 median
- Shorrock Lane£62,000 median
- Redlam£58,250 median
- Stansfeld Street£35,000 median
- Whinney Lane£157,500 median
- New Bank Road£60,000 median
- Bonsall Street£44,500 median
- Selborne Street£68,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 135 Heys Lane5 sales
- 133 Heys Lane4 sales
- 36 Heys Lane4 sales
- 12 Heys Lane4 sales
- 130 Heys Lane4 sales
- 64 Heys Lane4 sales
- 116 Heys Lane4 sales
- 96 Heys Lane4 sales
- 20 Heys Lane4 sales
- 60 Heys Lane4 sales
- 142 Heys Lane3 sales
- 90 Heys Lane3 sales
- 32 Heys Lane3 sales
- 85 Heys Lane3 sales
- 42 Heys Lane3 sales
- 28 Heys Lane3 sales
- 52 Heys Lane3 sales
- 86 Heys Lane3 sales
- 66 Heys Lane3 sales
- 16 Heys Lane3 sales
- 48 Heys Lane3 sales
- 14 Heys Lane3 sales
- 154 Heys Lane3 sales
- 94 Heys Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Heys Lane, Blackburn?
The median price paid in Heys Lane, Blackburn across every sale on the register is £80,000. 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 Heys Lane, Blackburn?
180 sales are on record for Heys Lane, Blackburn, the most recent completing on 1 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Heys Lane, Blackburn house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +112.9% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +56.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Heys Lane, Blackburn house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £165,000, set in 2024. 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 Heys Lane, Blackburn?
£1,009 per square metre, from the 31 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 1 Oct 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, “Heys Lane, Blackburn 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.