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Hereford market report HR4
The HR4 (Hereford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 17,888 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HR4 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 163 registered 2026 sales put the HR4 (Hereford) median at £270,000, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £283,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,150 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 17,888 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district HR4 covering Hereford (west) sits in Hereford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where HR4 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 HR4 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for HR4 is £270,000, taken from 163 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £283,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
HR4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HR4 costs about £3,150 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, HR4 sits 5% below the national market.
HR4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 163 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 532 |
| 2024 | £286,200 | £304,289 | 508 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 406 |
| 2022 | £270,400 | £317,075 | 545 |
| 2021 | £248,000 | £314,000 | 706 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 490 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 574 |
| 2018 | £227,000 | £302,595 | 520 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 555 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 504 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 471 |
| 2014 | £173,800 | £246,566 | 518 |
| 2013 | £167,500 | £241,016 | 428 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 387 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 370 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 380 |
| 2009 | £161,000 | £258,809 | 385 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 318 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 708 |
| 2006 | £158,500 | £275,136 | 727 |
| 2005 | £153,800 | £273,702 | 616 |
| 2004 | £142,000 | £257,900 | 669 |
| 2003 | £122,000 | £224,754 | 795 |
| 2002 | £101,400 | £190,783 | 800 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 841 |
| 2000 | £76,100 | £149,346 | 726 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 812 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 688 |
| 1997 | £53,200 | £109,102 | 716 |
| 1996 | £49,700 | £104,815 | 574 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 456 |
In cash terms the typical HR4 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 159%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HR4 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 (+20.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.0%). 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% | −4.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £377,500 against £123,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, HR4
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 | £377,500 | 51 | 5,337 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 47 | 5,262 |
| Terraced | £229,000 | 46 | 5,485 |
| Flats | £123,000 | 19 | 1,804 |
Sales activity in HR4
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 395 HR4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 735 sales a year before the financial crisis and 431 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.
What tenants pay around HR4
For renting purposes HR4 sits in Herefordshire, County of. 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.
Against the £270,000 median purchase price, a rent of £809 a month (£9,708 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
HR4 (Hereford): the questions that come up
Is HR4 (Hereford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HR4 (Hereford)?
Are property prices falling in HR4 (Hereford)?
Will HR4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
On the market in HR4 today
Everything above is what homes in HR4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 99 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the HR4 median sold price.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Pennine Close, Kings Acre, Hereford, Herefordshire
- Credenhill, Hereford, Herefordshire
- Whitecross, Hereford
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every HR4 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in HR
Real sold prices by size across the HR area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
HR4 ranks 6 of 9 in the HR area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside HR4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HR4 0 | £258,000 | 66 |
| HR4 7 | £356,500 | 20 |
| HR4 8 | £325,000 | 25 |
| HR4 9 | £234,800 | 52 |
How HR4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HR3 | £385,000 | +17% |
| HR9 | £322,500 | -1% |
| HR8 | £320,000 | +10% |
| HR1 | £305,000 | +9% |
| HR7 | £298,500 | +13% |
| HR4 (this report) | £270,000 | +9% |
| HR6 | £267,500 | +7% |
| HR2 | £253,200 | +10% |
| HR5 | £222,000 | +1% |
Selling a home in HR4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HR4, open the average prices map and zoom from the HR4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HR4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working HR4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HR4.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about HR4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HR4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.