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There has been plenty of press coverage recently heralding the low average house prices in Burnley and the amount of 'flipped' properties - those selling multiple times - in the area. We take a look at the property market in this town, as well as in the Blackburn area and the wider UK North Western region in our homemover database*.
Firstly, Burnley itself:
- Burnley has an average asking price of £140k with 2.47% of all properties available currently advertised as for sale. Both of these metrics are lower than the national averages.
- Property for sale has spent an average of 178 days on the market - a much longer period than the 154 day national average.
- The rental market in Burnley does not appear as buoyant as the rest of the UK. The average asking price for rental property in Burnley is £410pcm, over £700 less per month than the national average, and has been on the market for 137 days which, again, is longer than average.
- 0.48% of all properties in Burnley are available to rent, which is lower than the national average of 1.12%.
Next, Blackburn:
- The Blackburn postcode (BB) enclaves the town of Burnley (BB10, BB11 and BB12). The BB area also includes its namesake town, Blackburn, Accrington and the more affluent Clitheroe.
- The average asking price in BB is £165k with 2.34% of all property available for sale and an average time on market of 179 days. These figures all show Blackburn performing less successfully then the respective national average figures.
- For rental property, the asking price is £485 with 0.45% of all properties available to rent and the average time on market recorded is 118 days.
- Considering these three key stats – average asking price, length on market and % of property available – the districts comprising Burnley are not even the strongest performing districts in the Blackburn area; the best are BB4 and BB6, both with much better market stats.
Lastly, the North West as a region:
- Average asking price for property for sale is £215k with 2.18% of properties available to buy and an average time on market of 178 days. The Blackburn postcode (BB), compares poorly with the rest of the North West, with a much lower asking price.
- For rental properties, the average asking price was recorded as £681pcm with 0.59% of properties available and an average time on market of 143 days. Compared to BB this is quite mixed; the North West has a much higher asking price but properties here spend longer on the market.
In summary, it would appear that Burnley is not as “booming” as many publications suggest; we have seen that the town is performing below average, in an area that is performing below average in its region.
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*Data correct as of 14/08/2017