Nelson house prices

Nelson house prices are built from 25,519 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £55,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +98.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +42.0%.

HM Land Registry25,519 sales4,015 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Nelson 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 Nelson is £138,750 in 2026; the lowest is £25,000 in 1997. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £25,250 to £138,750.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £56,067, so the real change over the whole record is +147.5% — about +2.97% 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: +98.2% in cash against +42.0% 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 Nelson values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Nelson 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. 5,548 certificates cover Nelson, and their median floor area is 75 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. 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.

15,730 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9,789 freehold — 61.6% 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 £43,500 and the median freehold sale £86,000 — a gap of +97.7%. 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 — +85.1%. 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 1,805 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 £55,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.36% 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 BB9, 344 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 160 violent, 7 burglary, 12 vehicle-related and 48 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times busier.

Against the 95,757 residents the 2021 census counted in Pendle, that is 3.59 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.

24 state and independent schools have a BB9 postcode: 17 primary, 4 nursery, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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. Nelson sits below that national figure — -65.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £613 per square metre, across 4,015 of the 25,519 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 £150 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.

Nelson 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 in Nelson

• Gisburn Road500 sales
• Halifax Road456 sales
• Pine Street383 sales
• Chapel House Road351 sales
• Barkerhouse Road344 sales
• Napier Street308 sales
• Railway Street302 sales
• Leeds Road271 sales
• Smith Street270 sales
• Chapel Street262 sales
• Every Street250 sales
• Fir Street245 sales
• Castle Street234 sales
• Hibson Road224 sales
• Brunswick Street199 sales
• Regent Street193 sales
• Berkeley Street184 sales
• Belgrave Street179 sales
• Larch Street168 sales
• Colne Road153 sales
• Sackville Street147 sales
• Beaufort Street145 sales
• Holmefield Gardens145 sales
• Whitehall Street145 sales
• Nora Street144 sales
• Walton Lane144 sales
• Manor Street141 sales
• Kings Causeway137 sales
• Priory Chase136 sales
• Brentwood Road134 sales
• May Street133 sales
• Reedyford Road133 sales
• Manchester Road131 sales
• Quakers View126 sales
• Higher Reedley Road125 sales
• Edward Street123 sales
• Rhoda Street123 sales
• Tavistock Street119 sales
• Waidshouse Road118 sales
• Vaughan Street116 sales
• Highgate112 sales
• Maurice Street112 sales
• Percy Street112 sales
• Charles Street111 sales
• Hallam Road111 sales
• Bolton Grove110 sales
• Princess Street110 sales
• Carleton Street105 sales
• Berriedale Road104 sales
• Hendon Road104 sales
• Barnoldswick Road103 sales
• Camden Street103 sales
• Pinewood Drive103 sales
• Rutland Street103 sales
• Fife Street100 sales
• Kelswick Drive99 sales
• Albert Street98 sales
• St Marys Street98 sales
• Wheatley Lane Road97 sales
• Edge End Avenue95 sales

Postcode districts covering Nelson

• BB9£55,000 median

What is the average house price in Nelson?

The median price paid in Nelson across every sale on the register is £55,000. 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 Nelson?

25,519 sales are on record for Nelson, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Nelson house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +98.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +42.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Nelson house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £138,750, 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 Nelson?

£613 per square metre, from the 4,015 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 23 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, “Nelson 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.