Berkeley Street, Nelson house prices

Berkeley Street, Nelson house prices are built from 184 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 25 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £39,250. Across the 16 years from 2009 to 2025 the median moved +34.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -16.6%.

HM Land Registry184 sales45 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Nov 2025

The chart tracks the median Berkeley Street, Nelson house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2025. 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 Berkeley Street, Nelson is £84,000 in 2022; the lowest is £12,750 in 2002. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £24,500 to £78,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £51,947, so the real change over the whole record is +54.4% — about +1.56% 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: +34.2% in cash against -16.6% 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 Berkeley Street, 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. Berkeley Street, Nelson is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

159 of the sales on record are leasehold and 25 freehold — 86.4% 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 £38,000 and the median freehold sale £48,950 — a gap of +28.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 18 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 £39,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 20.12% 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 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. Berkeley Street, Nelson sits below that national figure — -75.1%.

Within Nelson the street ranks 425 of 582 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £55,000 (-28.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £741 per square metre, across 45 of the 184 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 £5,250 to £125,000. 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.

Berkeley Street, 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 nearby

• Gisburn Road£118,975 median
• Halifax Road£76,000 median
• Pine Street£31,000 median
• Chapel House Road£36,000 median
• Barkerhouse Road£62,500 median
• Napier Street£37,750 median
• Railway Street£44,500 median
• Leeds Road£44,950 median
• Smith Street£30,000 median
• Chapel Street£34,076 median
• Every Street£30,000 median
• Fir Street£33,000 median
• Castle Street£31,250 median
• Hibson Road£63,625 median
• Brunswick Street£43,000 median
• Regent Street£35,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 6 Berkeley Street10 sales
• 4 Berkeley Street6 sales
• 23 Berkeley Street5 sales
• 70 Berkeley Street5 sales
• 20 Berkeley Street5 sales
• 2 Berkeley Street5 sales
• 14 Berkeley Street4 sales
• 112 Berkeley Street4 sales
• 67 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 99 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 21 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 117 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 62 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 148 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 12 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 5 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 18 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 111 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 30 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 32 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 72 Berkeley Street3 sales
• 50 Berkeley Street2 sales
• 92 Berkeley Street2 sales
• 87 Berkeley Street2 sales

Back to Nelson house prices.

What is the average house price in Berkeley Street, Nelson?

The median price paid in Berkeley Street, Nelson across every sale on the register is £39,250. 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 Berkeley Street, Nelson?

184 sales are on record for Berkeley Street, Nelson, the most recent completing on 25 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Berkeley Street, Nelson house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +34.2% between 2009 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -16.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Berkeley Street, Nelson house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £84,000, set in 2022. 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 Berkeley Street, Nelson?

£741 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 25 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, “Berkeley Street, 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.