Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen house prices are built from 102 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 14 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,500. Across the 18 years from 2006 to 2024 the median moved +62.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.3%.
Median price paid
£70,500
Change in cash, 2006–2024
+62.0%
Change in real terms
-4.3%
Median per m²
£1,000
HM Land Registry102 sales23 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen prices moved
The chart tracks the median Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £58,000 | £105,659 |
| 2010s | 2 | £72,300 | £101,943 |
| 2020s | 2 | £99,975 | £102,148 |
The highest yearly median on record for Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen is £115,000 in 2024; the lowest is £51,725 in 2003. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £51,725 to £115,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,764, so the real change over the whole record is +23.8% — about +1.02% 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: +62.0% in cash against -4.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 14 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 126 | 29 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £111,500 | £117,325 |
| 122 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £105,000 | £110,485 |
| 102 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £112,000 | £117,851 |
| 52 | 23 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| 58 | 19 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £140,000 | £147,313 |
| 38 | 12 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £162,500 | £170,989 |
| 109 | 29 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 34 | 7 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 105 | 20 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £103,000 | £111,287 |
| 68 | 14 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| 35b | 24 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £83,500 | £96,742 |
| 15 | 3 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 71 | 29 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £89,950 | £104,215 |
| 111 | 11 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 31a | 8 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £86,500 | £100,218 |
| 72 | 19 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £128,000 | £161,720 |
| 104 | 12 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £122,000 | £154,140 |
| 66 | 1 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £131,000 | £165,511 |
| 99 | 13 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £143,878 |
| 6 | 6 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £112,000 | £146,494 |
| 72 | 17 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £90,000 | £117,718 |
| 38 | 1 May 2019 | Terraced | £58,000 | £75,863 |
| 52 | 1 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £90,000 | £117,718 |
| 62 | 18 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £81,500 | £106,600 |
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 Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 Birch Hall Avenue | £39,950 (2002) | £160,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.3% |
| 126 Birch Hall Avenue | £38,000 (2009) | £111,500 (2024) | +7.4% | +4.3% |
| 122 Birch Hall Avenue | £70,000 (2006) | £105,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.7% |
| 52 Birch Hall Avenue | £90,000 (2019) | £150,000 (2024) | +10.8% | +6.0% |
| 58 Birch Hall Avenue | £52,000 (2004) | £140,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 38 Birch Hall Avenue | £58,000 (2019) | £162,500 (2024) | +22.9% | +17.6% |
| 109 Birch Hall Avenue | £100,000 (2008) | £115,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| 34 Birch Hall Avenue | £38,000 (2001) | £165,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.0% |
| 105 Birch Hall Avenue | £79,150 (2004) | £103,000 (2023) | +1.4% | -1.4% |
| 68 Birch Hall Avenue | £69,000 (2007) | £110,000 (2022) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 71 Birch Hall Avenue | £68,000 (2017) | £89,950 (2022) | +5.8% | +2.4% |
| 111 Birch Hall Avenue | £64,000 (2004) | £115,000 (2022) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 48 | 47.1% | £71,000 | £11,250 – £165,000 |
| Terraced | 40 | 39.2% | £72,300 | £20,000 – £162,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 14 | 13.7% | £40,850 | £6,800 – £126,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen
16 of the sales on record are leasehold and 86 freehold — 15.7% 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 £44,175 and the median freehold sale £73,650 — a gap of +66.7%. 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 | 16 | 15.7% | £44,175 |
| Freehold | 86 | 84.3% | £73,650 |
| New build | 1 | 1.0% | £126,000 |
| Existing home | 101 | 99.0% | £70,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +80.0%. 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 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.
Section 07
Living in Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen
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 £70,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.12% 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 BB3, 218 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 95 violent, 4 burglary, 25 vehicle-related and 28 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 154,738 residents the 2021 census counted in Blackburn with Darwen, that is 1.41 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 Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen
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.
18 state and independent schools have a BB3 postcode: 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darwen Vale High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,039 |
| Darwen Aldridge Community Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,036 |
| Avondale Primary School | Primary | Community school | 400 |
| Lower Darwen Primary School | Primary | Community school | 382 |
| Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio | Secondary | Studio schools | 275 |
| Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 240 |
| Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 237 |
| Ashleigh Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 220 |
| Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Darwen Rail Station | Rail | 0.1 km |
| Cherry Tree Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Blackburn Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Entwistle Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen sits below that national figure — -55.2%.
Within Darwen the street ranks 348 of 550 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £77,000 (-8.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,000 per square metre, across 23 of the 102 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 £6,800 to £165,000. 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.
Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen 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
- Blackburn Road£54,500 median
- Olive Lane£46,000 median
- Marsh House Lane£79,975 median
- Harwood Street£67,250 median
- Bolton Road£79,975 median
- Cemetery Road£76,950 median
- Avondale Road£83,800 median
- Delphinium Way£109,500 median
- Aintree Drive£90,750 median
- Lynwood Avenue£72,250 median
- Hindle Street£52,000 median
- Spring Vale Garden Village£105,000 median
- Earnsdale Road£115,000 median
- Sudell Road£55,000 median
- Gillibrand Street£45,000 median
- Sandy Lane£110,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 126 Birch Hall Avenue5 sales
- 102 Birch Hall Avenue4 sales
- 107 Birch Hall Avenue4 sales
- 132B Birch Hall Avenue4 sales
- 59 Birch Hall Avenue4 sales
- 109 Birch Hall Avenue3 sales
- 31A Birch Hall Avenue3 sales
- 72 Birch Hall Avenue3 sales
- 6 Birch Hall Avenue3 sales
- 53 Birch Hall Avenue3 sales
- 122 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 52 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 58 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 38 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 34 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 105 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 68 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 71 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 111 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 99 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 62 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 60 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 44 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
- 93 Birch Hall Avenue2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen?
The median price paid in Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen across every sale on the register is £70,500. 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 Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen?
102 sales are on record for Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen, the most recent completing on 14 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +62.0% between 2006 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £115,000, 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 Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen?
£1,000 per square metre, from the 23 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 14 Nov 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, “Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen 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.