Blackpool house prices

Blackpool house prices are built from 78,244 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £85,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +31.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -6.1%.

HM Land Registry78,244 sales18,477 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Blackpool house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Blackpool is £141,500 in 2026; the lowest is £39,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £40,000 to £141,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,819, so the real change over the whole record is +59.3% — about +1.51% 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: +31.0% in cash against -6.1% 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.

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.

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 Blackpool values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 20,798 certificates cover Blackpool, and their median floor area is 72 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

11,125 of the sales on record are leasehold and 67,119 freehold — 14.2% 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 £76,000 and the median freehold sale £87,000 — a gap of +14.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +47.0%. 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 8,621 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Blackpool, 28.9% of 96,476 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 8.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Blackpool at £710 a month as of Jun 2026 — £495 for a one-bedroom home and £783 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £85,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.02% 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 FY4, 377 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 123 violent, 12 burglary, 27 vehicle-related and 90 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.

Against the 141,036 residents the 2021 census counted in Blackpool, that is 2.67 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.

The 2021 census counted 141,036 residents in Blackpool across 64,783 households. 57.8% of those households own their home and 42.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a FY4 postcode: 10 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Blackpool sits below that national figure — -46.0%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,013 per square metre, across 18,477 of the 78,244 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 £360 to £1,700,000. 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.

Blackpool sits in Blackpool, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Blackpool at 4.2 times median local earnings of £32,553 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.

Streets in Blackpool

• Queens Promenade928 sales
• Devonshire Road723 sales
• Warley Road524 sales
• Whitegate Drive523 sales
• Lytham Road513 sales
• Hornby Road487 sales
• Park Road448 sales
• Warbreck Drive431 sales
• Bispham Road427 sales
• Newton Drive404 sales
• Hawes Side Lane380 sales
• St Annes Road374 sales
• Preston Old Road371 sales
• Newhouse Road351 sales
• Clifton Drive348 sales
• Holmfield Road338 sales
• Cunliffe Road337 sales
• Palatine Road331 sales
• Central Drive318 sales
• Warbreck Hill Road309 sales
• Waterloo Road297 sales
• Westmorland Avenue279 sales
• Cavendish Road273 sales
• Harcourt Road264 sales
• Highfield Road257 sales
• Ashfield Road254 sales
• Reads Avenue248 sales
• Preston New Road246 sales
• Cornwall Avenue244 sales
• Grasmere Road241 sales
• Layton Road239 sales
• Marsden Road236 sales
• Vicarage Lane233 sales
• Penrose Avenue229 sales
• Watson Road228 sales
• Bloomfield Road224 sales
• St Heliers Road223 sales
• Peter Street218 sales
• Forest Gate211 sales
• Cherry Tree Road205 sales
• Greenfinch Court202 sales
• Promenade202 sales
• Southbank Avenue202 sales
• Caunce Street201 sales
• Norcliffe Road201 sales
• Squires Gate Lane199 sales
• Midgeland Road189 sales
• Common Edge Road187 sales
• Ingleway Avenue182 sales
• Ashton Road181 sales
• Onslow Road177 sales
• Red Bank Road177 sales
• Dalkeith Avenue176 sales
• Abbey Road174 sales
• Willowbank Avenue173 sales
• Hemingway168 sales
• Shaftesbury Avenue168 sales
• Winton Avenue168 sales
• Ivy Avenue167 sales
• Collyhurst Avenue166 sales

Postcode districts covering Blackpool

• FY4£90,000 median
• FY1£70,000 median
• FY3£88,000 median
• FY2£103,000 median
• FY5£115,000 median

What is the average house price in Blackpool?

The median price paid in Blackpool across every sale on the register is £85,000. 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 Blackpool?

78,244 sales are on record for Blackpool, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Blackpool house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +31.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -6.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Blackpool house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £141,500, set in 2026. 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 Blackpool?

£1,013 per square metre, from the 18,477 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 25 Jun 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, “Blackpool 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.