Red Lane, Colne house prices

Red Lane, Colne house prices are built from 66 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 30 Jun 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £210,000. Across the 12 years from 2003 to 2015 the median moved +193.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +118.8%.

HM Land Registry66 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jun 2025

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

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 Red Lane, Colne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 61 freehold — 7.6% 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 £95,000 and the median freehold sale £213,000 — a gap of +124.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 3 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 Pendle, 26.8% of 49,697 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.8% 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 Pendle at £658 a month as of Jun 2026 — £488 for a one-bedroom home and £726 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £210,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.76% 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 BB8, 191 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 86 violent, 4 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 39 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 95,757 residents the 2021 census counted in Pendle, that is 1.99 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 95,757 residents in Pendle across 38,066 households. 65.2% of those households own their home and 34.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a BB8 postcode: 9 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Red Lane, Colne sits above that national figure — +33.3%.

Within Colne the street ranks 36 of 387 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £81,500 (+157.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,016 per square metre, across 18 of the 66 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 £46,800 to £975,000. 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.

Red Lane, Colne sits in Pendle, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Pendle at 4.5 times median local earnings of £30,981 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 nearby

• Skipton Road£99,000 median
• Keighley Road£152,000 median
• Burnley Road£57,000 median
• Langroyd Road£75,000 median
• Skipton Old Road£213,500 median
• Birtwistle Avenue£78,500 median
• Oak Street£47,000 median
• Cotton Tree Lane£100,000 median
• Cleveland Street£38,250 median
• Walton Street£35,000 median
• North Street£40,000 median
• Glen Street£38,000 median
• The Meadows£125,000 median
• Castle Road£170,000 median
• Hollin Hall£149,950 median
• Alkincoats Road£123,960 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• MEWS COTTAGE Red Lane5 sales
• 15 Red Lane3 sales
• CLOUD EDGE Red Lane3 sales
• NORTHCLIFFE Red Lane3 sales
• THE CLIFF Red Lane2 sales
• 40 Red Lane2 sales
• 4 Red Lane2 sales
• 36 Red Lane2 sales
• NORCROFT Red Lane2 sales
• 6 Red Lane2 sales
• 14 Red Lane2 sales
• 26 Red Lane2 sales
• OVERDALE Red Lane2 sales
• THE COPPY Red Lane2 sales
• ENALDER Red Lane2 sales

Back to Colne house prices.

What is the average house price in Red Lane, Colne?

The median price paid in Red Lane, Colne across every sale on the register is £210,000. 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 Red Lane, Colne?

66 sales are on record for Red Lane, Colne, the most recent completing on 30 Jun 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Red Lane, Colne house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +193.4% between 2003 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +118.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Red Lane, Colne house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £286,750, set in 2015. 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 Red Lane, Colne?

£2,016 per square metre, from the 18 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 Jun 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, “Red Lane, Colne 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.