Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 98,164 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the HR postcode area (Hereford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
HR is the postcode area centred on Hereford, taking in 9 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where HR sits
Click the map to open HR on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£280,000median sold price, 2026
+4%five-year change (cash)
2,292sales in the last 12 months
3.5%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in HR sells for
The 2026 median in HR is £280,000, from 639 registered sales; the mean, £318,600, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so HR trades 2% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical HR home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£280,000
£280,000
639
2025
£285,000
£285,000
2,901
2024
£297,800
£309,228
3,008
2023
£285,000
£305,832
2,704
2022
£285,000
£326,390
3,332
2021
£270,000
£333,871
4,464
2020
£253,600
£321,366
2,984
2019
£230,000
£294,434
3,404
2018
£230,000
£299,434
3,388
2017
£217,000
£289,054
3,443
2016
£200,000
£273,267
3,220
2015
£200,000
£276,000
2,894
2014
£187,500
£259,789
2,923
2013
£180,000
£252,953
2,352
2012
£180,000
£258,750
2,128
2011
£178,000
£262,436
2,043
2010
£187,000
£286,415
2,041
2009
£171,000
£268,464
2,133
2008
£185,000
£296,172
1,789
2007
£185,000
£306,483
3,718
2006
£176,000
£298,378
3,888
2005
£166,200
£288,861
3,096
2004
£160,000
£283,805
3,505
2003
£136,000
£244,694
3,788
2002
£115,000
£211,318
4,142
2001
£90,400
£169,731
4,159
2000
£82,500
£158,125
3,716
1999
£75,000
£145,980
4,061
1998
£67,000
£132,086
3,470
1997
£60,000
£120,174
3,365
1996
£57,000
£117,403
3,078
1995
£56,000
£118,892
2,388
In cash terms the typical HR home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 136%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% 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 (+27.2% 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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−1.8%
−1.8%
5 years (since 2021)
+0.7%
−3.5%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.4%
+0.2%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.3%
−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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
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 2,292 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 3,752 sales a year before the financial crisis and 2,517 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around HR
HR falls under Herefordshire, County of, the local authority covering most of the HR area, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £809 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £587 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,326, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Herefordshire, County of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £280,000 median sold price, £809 a month is £9,708 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Will HR prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every HR district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
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.