Shear Brow, Blackburn house prices are built from 200 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £73,500. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +90.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +41.4%.
Median price paid
£73,500
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+90.9%
Change in real terms
+41.4%
Median per m²
£993
HM Land Registry200 sales45 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Shear Brow, Blackburn prices moved
The chart tracks the median Shear Brow, Blackburn house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | 5 | £34,725 | £77,106 |
| 2000s | 9 | £69,000 | £125,698 |
| 2010s | 3 | £102,500 | £144,525 |
| 2020s | 3 | £118,000 | £120,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for Shear Brow, Blackburn is £151,750 in 2023; the lowest is £31,000 in 1998. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £34,000 to £151,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £75,496, so the real change over the whole record is +117.2% — about +2.81% 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: +90.9% in cash against +41.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160 | 15 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 32 | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 252 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £107,250 | £109,582 |
| 181 | 17 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £202,000 | £206,391 |
| 17 | 18 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 117 | 12 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £87,500 | £92,071 |
| 57 | 7 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 140 | 2 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £92,500 | £99,943 |
| 55 | 28 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| 248 | 18 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| 43 | 17 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £167,500 | £180,977 |
| 159 | 27 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £143,500 | £155,046 |
| 250 | 25 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £90,000 | £104,273 |
| 144 | 27 May 2022 | Terraced | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| 317 | 10 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £118,000 | £136,713 |
| 321 | 8 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £87,000 | £100,797 |
| 241 | 27 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 148 | 12 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £80,000 | £101,075 |
| 107 | 28 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £96,000 | £121,290 |
| 173 | 7 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £162,500 | £205,309 |
| 70 | 26 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £100,000 | £126,344 |
| 12 | 19 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 111 | 23 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £110,000 | £142,424 |
| 44 | 17 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 171 | 13 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £125,000 | £163,497 |
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 Shear Brow, Blackburn values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160 Shear Brow | £37,000 (1998) | £200,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 252 Shear Brow | £68,000 (2003) | £107,250 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.7% |
| 181 Shear Brow | £37,000 (2001) | £202,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.5% |
| 117 Shear Brow | £33,500 (1999) | £87,500 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 57 Shear Brow | £80,000 (2001) | £290,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 248 Shear Brow | £70,000 (2004) | £100,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 250 Shear Brow | £78,000 (2005) | £90,000 (2022) | +0.8% | -1.8% |
| 144 Shear Brow | £100,000 (2006) | £135,000 (2022) | +1.9% | -0.8% |
| 317 Shear Brow | £96,000 (2006) | £118,000 (2022) | +1.3% | -1.4% |
| 321 Shear Brow | £35,450 (1997) | £87,000 (2022) | +3.7% | +1.2% |
| 148 Shear Brow | £10,000 (1998) | £80,000 (2021) | +9.5% | +7.1% |
| 107 Shear Brow | £28,000 (1998) | £96,000 (2021) | +5.5% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Shear Brow, 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 | 151 | 75.5% | £69,000 | £10,000 – £300,000 |
| Semi-detached | 39 | 19.5% | £80,000 | £21,000 – £290,000 |
| Detached | 8 | 4.0% | £90,000 | £35,000 – £480,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.0% | £35,000 | £35,000 – £80,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Shear Brow, Blackburn
31 of the sales on record are leasehold and 169 freehold — 15.5% 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 £85,000 and the median freehold sale £71,000 — a gap of -16.5%. 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 | 31 | 15.5% | £85,000 |
| Freehold | 169 | 84.5% | £71,000 |
A further 14 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 Shear Brow, 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 £73,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.62% 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 BB1, 324 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 136 violent, 8 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 58 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.
Against the 154,738 residents the 2021 census counted in Blackburn with Darwen, that is 2.09 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 Shear Brow, 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.
29 state and independent schools have a BB1 postcode: 25 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleckgate High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,339 |
| Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 770 |
| The Hyndburn Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 641 |
| Lammack Primary School | Primary | Community school | 548 |
| Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 464 |
| Roe Lee Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 424 |
| Cedars Primary School | Primary | Community school | 407 |
| St James' Church of England Primary School Blackburn | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 395 |
| Audley Junior School | Primary | Community school | 392 |
| St Stephen's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 392 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Blackburn Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Ramsgreave & Wilpshire Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Rishton Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Cherry Tree Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
Section 09
How Shear Brow, Blackburn compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Shear Brow, Blackburn sits below that national figure — -53.3%.
Within Blackburn the street ranks 923 of 1549 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £83,000 (-11.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £993 per square metre, across 45 of the 200 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 £10,000 to £480,000. 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.
Shear Brow, 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
- Whalley New Road£75,750 median
- Revidge Road£88,000 median
- Whalley Road£185,250 median
- Blackburn Road£75,500 median
- Accrington Road£50,000 median
- St James's Road£78,500 median
- Pleckgate Road£123,000 median
- Whalley Old Road£82,000 median
- Audley Range£39,995 median
- Ribchester Road£220,000 median
- Lammack Road£141,500 median
- Pringle Street£43,000 median
- Belthorn Road£139,000 median
- Haslingden Road£73,500 median
- Stone Hill Drive£47,000 median
- Spring Street£40,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2A Shear Brow5 sales
- 117 Shear Brow4 sales
- 70 Shear Brow4 sales
- 232 Shear Brow4 sales
- 158 Shear Brow4 sales
- 80 Shear Brow4 sales
- 250 Shear Brow3 sales
- 144 Shear Brow3 sales
- 321 Shear Brow3 sales
- 148 Shear Brow3 sales
- 44 Shear Brow3 sales
- 231 Shear Brow3 sales
- 236 Shear Brow3 sales
- 48 Shear Brow3 sales
- 113 Shear Brow3 sales
- 109 Shear Brow3 sales
- 76 Shear Brow3 sales
- 199 Shear Brow3 sales
- 46 Shear Brow3 sales
- 66 Shear Brow3 sales
- 178 Shear Brow3 sales
- 176 Shear Brow3 sales
- 160 Shear Brow2 sales
- 252 Shear Brow2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Shear Brow, Blackburn?
The median price paid in Shear Brow, Blackburn across every sale on the register is £73,500. 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 Shear Brow, Blackburn?
200 sales are on record for Shear Brow, Blackburn, the most recent completing on 15 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Shear Brow, Blackburn house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +90.9% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +41.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Shear Brow, Blackburn house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £151,750, set in 2023. 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 Shear Brow, Blackburn?
£993 per square metre, from the 45 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 15 Apr 2026. 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, “Shear Brow, 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.