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Bosbury market report HR8 2, Ledbury
The HR8 2 (Bosbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,105 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HR8 2 (Ledbury) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for HR8 2 (Ledbury) is £313,000, from 71 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £335,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,470 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,105 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
HR8 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HR8 (Ledbury). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where HR8 2 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.
The going rate for a home in HR8 2
The 2026 median for HR8 2 is £313,000, taken from 71 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £335,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in HR8 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HR8 2 costs about £3,470 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HR8 2 10% above the country at large.
The price of a typical HR8 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £313,000 | £313,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £307,500 | £314,853 | 187 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 173 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 133 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 203 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 237 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 155 |
| 2019 | £234,200 | £306,980 | 156 |
| 2018 | £263,000 | £350,584 | 143 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 147 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 163 |
| 2015 | £227,500 | £321,458 | 144 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 171 |
| 2013 | £181,500 | £261,160 | 156 |
| 2012 | £194,000 | £285,544 | 130 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 137 |
| 2010 | £179,500 | £281,502 | 118 |
| 2009 | £196,000 | £315,072 | 132 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 80 |
| 2007 | £207,500 | £351,978 | 196 |
| 2006 | £191,000 | £331,552 | 253 |
| 2005 | £181,000 | £322,107 | 211 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 244 |
| 2003 | £155,500 | £286,469 | 252 |
| 2002 | £136,500 | £256,824 | 234 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 345 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 419 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 317 |
| 1998 | £70,800 | £142,915 | 232 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 241 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 198 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical HR8 2 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £313,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 150%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HR8 2 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 (+40.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−11.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in HR8 2
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.
HR8 2 recorded 71 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 269 sales a year before the financial crisis and 153 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 kind of market HR8 2 is
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around HR8 2
The local authority for HR8 2 is Herefordshire, County of, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£809 a month is £9,708 a year, which against the £313,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.1%. 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.
HR8 2 (Bosbury): the questions that come up
Is HR8 2 (Bosbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HR8 2 (Bosbury)?
Are property prices falling in HR8 2 (Bosbury)?
Where do HR8 2 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
HR8's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HR8 district, not just HR8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every HR8 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: HR prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HR area. 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.
Other sectors in HR8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HR8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HR8 1 | £389,600 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full HR8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HR8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in HR8 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at HR8 2'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 HR8 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HR8 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual HR8 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.