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Hereford market report HR2 8
The HR2 8 (Hereford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,796 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HR2 8 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 15 registered 2026 sales put the HR2 8 (Hereford) median at £390,000, down 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £428,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,360 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,796 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like HR2 8 is a single group of streets within HR2 (Hereford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where HR2 8 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 HR2 8
The 2026 median for HR2 8 is £390,000, taken from 15 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £428,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in HR2 8
The last five years of sales put HR2 8 at roughly £3,360 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HR2 8 runs 37% above it.
The price of a typical HR2 8 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £427,500 | £437,723 | 46 |
| 2024 | £465,000 | £494,391 | 63 |
| 2023 | £457,500 | £502,681 | 72 |
| 2022 | £431,800 | £506,335 | 55 |
| 2021 | £415,000 | £525,444 | 75 |
| 2020 | £385,000 | £499,545 | 66 |
| 2019 | £359,000 | £470,563 | 48 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 51 |
| 2017 | £291,200 | £397,168 | 69 |
| 2016 | £317,500 | £444,186 | 62 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 65 |
| 2014 | £294,500 | £417,800 | 62 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 39 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 35 |
| 2011 | £281,500 | £424,957 | 36 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 40 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 53 |
| 2008 | £273,500 | £448,324 | 40 |
| 2007 | £278,000 | £471,565 | 69 |
| 2006 | £307,500 | £533,781 | 61 |
| 2005 | £290,500 | £516,973 | 44 |
| 2004 | £284,200 | £516,163 | 62 |
| 2003 | £243,500 | £448,586 | 62 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 61 |
| 2001 | £165,000 | £317,204 | 71 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 64 |
| 1999 | £139,000 | £277,020 | 66 |
| 1998 | £126,000 | £254,340 | 82 |
| 1997 | £85,200 | £174,728 | 66 |
| 1996 | £87,500 | £184,534 | 51 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 45 |
In cash terms the typical HR2 8 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HR2 8 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 1998 (+47.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−11.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.8% | −10.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.2% | −1.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 15 sales completed in HR2 8. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 50 sales a year recently, against 62 a year before 2008. 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 kind of market HR2 8 is
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HR2 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the HR2 district median, HR2 8 sits 54% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of HR2 8
HR2 8 falls under Herefordshire, County of, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £809 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £587 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,326 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Herefordshire, County of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £390,000 median purchase price, a rent of £809 a month (£9,708 a year) works out at a 2.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: HR2 8 (Hereford)
Is HR2 8 (Hereford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HR2 8 (Hereford)?
Are property prices falling in HR2 8 (Hereford)?
Are HR2 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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 is for sale in HR2 right now
The live side of the market holds 93 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HR2 district, not just HR2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Priory View, Belmont, Hereford, HR2, Hereford
- The Bines, Clehonger, Hereford, Herefordshire
- Longtown, Hereford, Herefordshire
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every HR2 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
HR area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in HR2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HR2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HR2 0 | £297,500 | 14 |
| HR2 6 | £224,500 | 40 |
| HR2 7 | £210,000 | 64 |
| HR2 9 | £300,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full HR2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HR2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in HR2 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HR2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HR2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HR2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim HR2 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HR2 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HR2 8 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.