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Worcester market report WR1 1
The WR1 1 (Worcester) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,048 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WR1 1 (Worcester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WR1 1 (Worcester) sold for £155,000 in 2026, the median of 34 registered sales, down 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £176,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,048 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WR1 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WR1 (Worcester). 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 WR1 1 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 WR1 1
The 2026 median for WR1 1 is £155,000, taken from 34 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £176,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WR1 1
The last five years of sales put WR1 1 at roughly £2,630 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WR1 1 trades 46% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WR1 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £155,000 | £155,000 | 34 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 109 |
| 2024 | £203,000 | £215,831 | 97 |
| 2023 | £181,200 | £199,095 | 82 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 123 |
| 2021 | £176,800 | £223,852 | 118 |
| 2020 | £169,500 | £219,930 | 88 |
| 2019 | £162,500 | £212,999 | 102 |
| 2018 | £161,000 | £214,616 | 128 |
| 2017 | £163,500 | £222,998 | 162 |
| 2016 | £179,000 | £250,423 | 175 |
| 2015 | £144,800 | £204,602 | 102 |
| 2014 | £136,500 | £193,649 | 117 |
| 2013 | £131,000 | £188,496 | 90 |
| 2012 | £123,900 | £182,365 | 58 |
| 2011 | £131,500 | £198,514 | 71 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 67 |
| 2009 | £132,000 | £212,191 | 75 |
| 2008 | £127,500 | £208,999 | 87 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 156 |
| 2006 | £145,500 | £252,569 | 245 |
| 2005 | £131,000 | £233,127 | 171 |
| 2004 | £125,500 | £227,933 | 133 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 173 |
| 2002 | £85,500 | £160,868 | 202 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 211 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 192 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 147 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 171 |
| 1997 | £44,500 | £91,261 | 141 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 140 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 81 |
In cash terms the typical WR1 1 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £155,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 78%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WR1 1 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 2000 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−22.5%). 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) | −22.5% | −24.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.6% | −7.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.4% | −4.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.3% | −2.4% |
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.
Sales activity in WR1 1
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 register shows 34 WR1 1 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 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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.
Reading the WR1 1 market
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WR1 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WR1, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around WR1 1
For renting purposes WR1 1 sits in Worcester. The ONS average private rent there is £965 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £703 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,525, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Worcester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £155,000 median purchase price, a rent of £965 a month (£11,580 a year) works out at a 7.5% 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: WR1 1 (Worcester)
Are property prices falling in WR1 1 (Worcester)?
Is WR1 1 (Worcester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR1 1 (Worcester)?
What happens to WR1 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 31% 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.
WR1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 41 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR1 district, not just WR1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 WR1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WR 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 | — | £318,351 | £413,000 (+30%) | £610,000 (+48%) | £810,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | £260,000 (+13%) | £305,000 (+17%) | £400,000 (+31%) | £575,000 (+44%) |
| Terraced | £200,000 | £229,000 (+15%) | £257,000 (+12%) | £330,000 (+28%) | £490,000 (+48%) |
| Flat | £128,000 | £187,000 (+46%) | £279,000 (+49%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WR area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WR1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WR1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR1 2 | £212,500 | 13 |
| WR1 3 | £170,500 | 10 |
Zoom out to the full WR1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WR1 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR1 1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WR1 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WR1 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR1 1 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.