That is the middle of 829 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.8 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
829 homes sold in three years: 79 detached houses, 145 semi-detached houses, 562 terraced houses and 43 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.1 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£310K
median sale · 79 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£415K
Last 12 months
£289K14 sold
New build
£290K
Semi-detached houses£195K
median sale · 145 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£165K–£235K
Last 12 months
£204K50 sold
Terraced houses£120K
median sale · 562 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£85K–£160K
Last 12 months
£125K177 sold
Flats and maisonettes£100K
median sale · 43 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£83K–£135K
Last 12 months
£120K15 sold
New build
£120K
The mix
A terraced town: two thirds of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses10%
Semi-detached houses17%
Terraced houses68%
Flats and maisonettes5%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Colne’s homes sold for between £97K and £197K
One sale in ten was under £70K and one in ten over £280K. 86% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £140,000, sits in the £100–150K band
829 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.8 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £30,000 in 1995 to £145,000 in the last 12 months (£112,995 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
256 sales in the last 12 months, against 663 in 2006, the busiest year, and 188 in 2009. Sales fell by 68% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 52% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Colne costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Colne, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£88K
£97K
£247K
£275K
£277K
£255K
£289K
Semi-detached houses
£58K
£58K
£100K
£107K
£141K
£170K
£204K
Terraced houses
£27K
£28K
£62K
£72K
£78K
£94K
£125K
Flats and maisonettes
—
—
£89K
—
£73K
£57K
£120K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 25% in 2021
1,004 new homes have been sold in Colne since 1995; the share peaked at 25% in 2021.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £137,475
against £140,000 for a home sold on, about the same, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
52% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 49% sold leasehold in Colne. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Keighley Road is Colne’s busiest street, with 35 sales in three years
52 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 11 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Keighley Road
BB8
35
£238,500
Mostly terraced houses
2
Burnley Road
BB8
19
£112,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Langroyd Road
BB8
16
£132,472
Mostly terraced houses
4
Skipton Road
BB8
15
£152,200
Mostly terraced houses
5
Rowling Hollins
BB8
14
£240,000
Mixed
6
Birtwistle Avenue
BB8
14
£154,750
Mostly terraced houses
7
Cotton Tree Lane
BB8
12
£173,250
Mostly terraced houses
8
Dickson Street
BB8
12
£94,250
Mostly terraced houses
9
Fern Street
BB8
12
£83,500
Mostly terraced houses
10
Linden Road
BB8
11
£120,000
Mostly flats · new builds
11
Castle Road
BB8
10
£290,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Milford Street
BB8
9
£182,500
Mostly terraced houses
13
Gordon Street
BB8
9
£105,000
Mostly terraced houses
14
Derby Street
BB8
9
£95,000
Mostly terraced houses
15
Cleveland Street
BB8
9
£46,800
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Grenfell Gardens: £513,750
Colne median£140K
Grenfell Gardens£514K
Castle Road£290K
Red Lane£284K
Bents£250K
Lanky Gardens£245K
Cheapest streets
Cleveland Street: £46,800
Colne median£140K
Cleveland Street£47K
Hawley Street£53K
Midgley Street£60K
Spring Lane£65K
Oak Street£71K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 11 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Lancashire
Colne is the 53rd most expensive of 65 towns in Lancashire
Colne is one of Lancashire’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Colne
What is the average house price in Colne?
The median home in Colne sold for £140,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 829 standard sales (£145,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £310,000, semi-detached houses £195,000, terraced houses £120,000 and flats and maisonettes £100,000.
Are house prices going up in Colne?
The median was £147,500 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£140,000), and £145,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Colne each year?
256 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 335 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Colne?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Grenfell Gardens (BB8, £513,750), Castle Road (BB8, £290,000) and Red Lane (BB8, £284,425).
How much does a new build cost in Colne?
New homes sold for a median £137,475 over three years, against £140,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 1.7% of sales.
Is Colne expensive for Lancashire?
Colne is the 53rd most expensive of 65 towns of 2,500 or more in Lancashire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.