00:00Hi, my name is Sam Quine, East Lancashire Reporter for the Lancashire Post, and I'm
00:06checking out the most expensive and the cheapest streets in Blackburn today. This was after
00:11a recent study looked at average house sales for the area. Professional fast sales company
00:18Property Solvers tracked average sold price data from the HM Land Registry since 2019
00:25to see where the highest and lowest priced homes are located across the Blackburn postcodes.
00:39Now I'm stood on the cheapest street in Blackburn which is called Witton Parade. Now the specific
00:46postcode noted in the recent study ran by Property Solvers is BB2 2PP. Now also noted
00:55in the study was the number of sales since 2019. Now this is 4, and the average house
01:02sale price was £48,625. Now as you can see behind me, the actual street has a number
01:14of one-storey houses and flats, some green areas, but largely it's just a small kind
01:20of lane, cul-de-sac, coming off a main road in Blackburn. Now there's not too much going
01:26on, a few green areas, but we'll see how it compares to the most expensive road in
01:34Blackburn and see any notable changes and see why there's such a big disparity between
01:40average house sale price. So I'm now on Ribchester Road, which is the Blackburn street which
01:55is the most expensive according to the recent study. Now on that study, the specific postcode
02:03that was used was BB1 9EE. Also according to that study, the number of sales since 2019
02:12for houses was 5, and the average house sale price was £587,400. So quite a disparity
02:21between that and Witton Parade. Now the road itself is a long stretch of road reaching
02:28from Wiltshire, which is the quite scenic quaint town I'm in now, all the way to Longridge.
02:37Now just walking up and down the street itself for a few minutes, I can tell why the houses
02:43go for such a high amount. There's a beautiful sense of greenery all around. As you can see
02:53behind me, there's a church. And yes, the houses itself are beautiful. A lot of them are kind of
03:02three-story, a mix between modern and traditional builds. Most of them are detached, and you can
03:10really see why someone would want to move here. I mean, Wiltshire itself seems like a lovely town
03:16and village, and everyone I've spoke to seems to really love the street and the surrounding area.
03:26Now the differences between Witton Parade and Rochester Road are, I'd say, probably the greenery,
03:34the open element, and just the sheer size of the house. And you can kind of tell why there's a
03:42half a million pound difference between the two average house sales.
