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Hereford market report HR
The HR (Hereford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 93,342 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the HR postcode area (Hereford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 935 registered 2026 sales put the the HR postcode area (Hereford) median at £285,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £317,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,150 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 93,342 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The HR postcode area centred on Hereford covers 9 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where HR sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in HR
935 sales were registered in HR in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £285,000. The mean works out at £317,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in HR
Measured by floor area, the last five years of HR sales average about £3,150 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HR trades 0% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical HR home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 935 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 2,616 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 2,536 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 2,294 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 2,813 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 3,744 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 2,544 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 2,772 |
| 2018 | £231,000 | £307,927 | 2,881 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 2,924 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 2,912 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 2,727 |
| 2014 | £187,500 | £266,002 | 2,829 |
| 2013 | £180,500 | £259,721 | 2,315 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 2,125 |
| 2011 | £178,500 | £269,466 | 2,041 |
| 2010 | £187,000 | £293,264 | 2,041 |
| 2009 | £171,000 | £274,884 | 2,131 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 1,789 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 3,718 |
| 2006 | £176,000 | £305,514 | 3,888 |
| 2005 | £166,200 | £295,769 | 3,096 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 3,505 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 3,788 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 4,142 |
| 2001 | £90,200 | £173,405 | 4,158 |
| 2000 | £82,500 | £161,906 | 3,716 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 4,061 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 3,470 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 3,365 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 3,078 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 2,388 |
In cash terms the typical HR home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 134%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HR median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £390,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, HR
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £390,000 | 405 | 38,992 |
| Semi-detached | £265,000 | 228 | 24,542 |
| Terraced | £215,000 | 229 | 22,343 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 73 | 7,465 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.7% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
HR recorded 2,022 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 3,751 sales a year before the financial crisis and 2,239 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around HR
For renting purposes HR sits in Herefordshire, County of, the local authority covering most of the HR area. The ONS average private rent there is £809 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £587 a month here against £1,326 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Herefordshire, County of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£809 a month is £9,708 a year, which against the £285,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
HR (Hereford): the questions that come up
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Are HR prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in HR now
Everything above is what homes in HR sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 424 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the HR median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Priory View, Belmont, Hereford, HR2, Hereford
- The Bines, Clehonger, Hereford, Herefordshire
- Kingsway, College Estate, Hereford, Herefordshire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every HR home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: HR prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HR area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £295,000 | £390,000 (+32%) | £585,000 (+50%) | £730,000 (+25%) |
| Semi-detached | £203,500 | £240,000 (+18%) | £286,000 (+19%) | £355,000 (+24%) | £530,000 (+49%) |
| Terraced | £175,000 | £210,000 (+20%) | £245,000 (+17%) | £317,000 (+29%) | — |
| Flat | £112,250 | £163,000 (+45%) | £262,000 (+61%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, HR area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The spread inside HR matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR3 Hay-on-Wye | £385,000 | +17% | 47 |
| HR9 Ross-on-Wye, Gorsley | £322,500 | -1% | 124 |
| HR8 Ledbury, Bosbury | £320,000 | +10% | 93 |
| HR1 Hereford (east) | £305,000 | +9% | 195 |
| HR7 Bromyard, Edwyn Ralph | £298,500 | +13% | 28 |
| HR4 Hereford (west) | £270,000 | +9% | 163 |
| HR6 Leominster | £267,500 | +7% | 98 |
| HR2 Hereford (south) | £253,200 | +10% | 172 |
| HR5 Kington, Lyonshall | £222,000 | +1% | 15 |
Selling in HR? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at HR's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HR.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HR already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HR sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.