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Worcester market report WR
The standing WR (Worcester) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 166,985 HM Land Registry entries for the WR postcode area (Worcester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for the WR postcode area (Worcester) is £300,000, from 1,893 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £338,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 166,985 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The figures for WR centred on Worcester run across 15 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where WR 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 WR
The 2026 median for WR is £300,000, taken from 1,893 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £338,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WR
The last five years of sales put WR at roughly £3,350 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WR 5% above the country at large.
WR'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 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 1,893 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 4,964 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 4,555 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 4,063 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 5,096 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 6,464 |
| 2020 | £267,000 | £346,438 | 4,456 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 4,978 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 5,391 |
| 2017 | £234,000 | £319,153 | 5,482 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 5,574 |
| 2015 | £212,000 | £299,556 | 5,274 |
| 2014 | £196,000 | £278,060 | 5,354 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 4,382 |
| 2012 | £182,000 | £267,881 | 3,875 |
| 2011 | £181,000 | £273,240 | 3,704 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 3,507 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 3,439 |
| 2008 | £181,000 | £296,697 | 3,198 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 5,827 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 6,728 |
| 2005 | £169,000 | £300,752 | 5,359 |
| 2004 | £163,500 | £296,948 | 5,991 |
| 2003 | £143,000 | £263,441 | 6,297 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 7,152 |
| 2001 | £98,500 | £189,361 | 6,867 |
| 2000 | £88,500 | £173,681 | 6,219 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 7,247 |
| 1998 | £69,800 | £140,896 | 6,398 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 6,652 |
| 1996 | £59,600 | £125,694 | 5,897 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 4,702 |
In cash terms the typical WR home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 138%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WR 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 (+21.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−4.7%). 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, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £421,200 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, WR
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 | £421,200 | 684 | 62,325 |
| Semi-detached | £285,000 | 586 | 49,360 |
| Terraced | £240,000 | 416 | 36,459 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 207 | 18,841 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.0% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 3,533 WR 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 6,305 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,114 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.
The rental side of WR
WR falls under Worcester, the local authority covering most of the WR area (parts fall under Wychavon and Malvern Hills, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £965 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £703 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,525 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Worcester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £300,000 median sold price, £965 a month is £11,580 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
Asked and answered: WR (Worcester)
Is WR (Worcester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR (Worcester)?
Are property prices falling in WR (Worcester)?
Will WR prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
WR's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WR sold for. The live side of the market holds 486 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 29% above the WR median sold price.
WR registered 3,533 sales in the last twelve months; the 486 homes listed now would take about 7 weeks to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
Of everything listed here, 11% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Barland Fields, Broomhall, Worcester
- Wellington Close, Worcester, Worcester
- Westfield Road, Fernhill Heath, Fernhill Heath
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 WR 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.
WR: the homes on offer and the homes that go
Sellers of flats in WR have company: 26% of current listings against 10% of recent sales. When a type is offered faster than it sells, the buyer usually holds the better hand.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 50% | 38% |
| Semi-detached | 17% | 31% |
| Terraced | 7% | 21% |
| Flats | 26% | 10% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (35 here).
Month by month: when WR sells
March is when WR changes hands most (11.2% of the 25,142 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.5%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,662 | 6.6% |
| February | 1,908 | 7.6% |
| March | 2,820 | 11.2% |
| April | 1,635 | 6.5% |
| May | 1,825 | 7.3% |
| June | 2,562 | 10.2% |
| July | 1,983 | 7.9% |
| August | 2,187 | 8.7% |
| September | 2,393 | 9.5% |
| October | 2,005 | 8.0% |
| November | 2,108 | 8.4% |
| December | 2,054 | 8.2% |
Bedroom by bedroom: WR prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the WR 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 | £285,000 | £310,000 (+9%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £447,500 (+26%) | £600,000 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £217,000 | £249,995 (+15%) | £280,000 (+12%) | £335,000 (+20%) | £427,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £172,250 | £210,000 (+22%) | £235,000 (+12%) | £283,500 (+21%) | £335,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £107,750 | £155,000 (+44%) | £240,000 (+55%) | — | £433,750 |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WR area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every WR district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| WR7 Inkberrow, Crowle | £540,000 | +20% | 25 |
| WR6 Martley, Clifton on Teme | £495,000 | +17% | 61 |
| WR12 Broadway, Willersey | £435,000 | -8% | 28 |
| WR8 Upton upon Severn, Hanley Castle | £395,000 | +8% | 52 |
| WR13 Colwall, Cradley | £362,500 | -5% | 45 |
| WR10 Pershore, Eckington | £332,500 | +6% | 128 |
| WR9 Droitwich, Ombersley | £325,000 | +8% | 196 |
| WR14 Malvern, Upper Welland | £320,000 | +14% | 233 |
| WR3 Fernhill Heath, Claines | £302,500 | +18% | 132 |
| WR11 non-geographic | £297,000 | +6% | 307 |
| WR2 Powick, Hallow | £294,000 | +11% | 203 |
| WR15 Tenbury Wells, Burford | £288,000 | -10% | 46 |
| WR5 Kempsey, Broomhall | £278,000 | +5% | 233 |
| WR4 Warndon, Long Meadow | £240,000 | +18% | 134 |
| WR1 Worcester | £170,500 | -8% | 70 |
Selling a home in WR? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR'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.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WR. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR 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.