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Worcester market report WR1 2
The WR1 2 (Worcester) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,467 registered sales in WR1 2 (Worcester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in WR1 2 (Worcester) sold for £198,200 in 2026, the median of 16 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £188,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,467 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WR1 2 is one sector of WR1 (Worcester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WR1 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 WR1 2
The 2026 median for WR1 2 is £198,200, taken from 16 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £188,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in WR1 2
The last five years of sales put WR1 2 at roughly £3,070 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WR1 2 sits 30% below the national market.
A typical WR1 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £198,200 | £198,200 | 16 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 35 |
| 2024 | £194,500 | £206,793 | 52 |
| 2023 | £199,500 | £219,202 | 41 |
| 2022 | £193,500 | £226,901 | 58 |
| 2021 | £182,500 | £231,069 | 45 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 45 |
| 2019 | £160,800 | £210,770 | 44 |
| 2018 | £189,200 | £252,207 | 94 |
| 2017 | £177,000 | £241,410 | 71 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 72 |
| 2015 | £149,200 | £210,820 | 40 |
| 2014 | £148,700 | £210,957 | 62 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 50 |
| 2012 | £181,000 | £266,409 | 61 |
| 2011 | £176,500 | £266,447 | 34 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 49 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 51 |
| 2008 | £158,500 | £259,815 | 32 |
| 2007 | £171,000 | £290,064 | 56 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 48 |
| 2005 | £116,200 | £206,789 | 42 |
| 2004 | £128,000 | £232,473 | 53 |
| 2003 | £95,200 | £175,381 | 55 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 37 |
| 2001 | £67,800 | £130,342 | 44 |
| 2000 | £66,500 | £130,506 | 34 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 31 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 33 |
| 1997 | £43,800 | £89,825 | 39 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 25 |
| 1995 | £40,800 | £88,693 | 18 |
In cash terms the typical WR1 2 home went from £40,800 in 1995 to £198,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 32% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR1 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 2011 (+41.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−15.0%). 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 year (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.6% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WR1 2 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 40 sales a year recently, against 46 a year before 2008. 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 kind of market WR1 2 is
This is a thin market: 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the WR1 district median, WR1 2 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of WR1 2
For renting purposes WR1 2 sits in Worcester. The ONS average private rent there is £965 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £703 a month here against £1,525 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Worcester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£965 a month is £11,580 a year, which against the £198,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.8%. 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.
Common questions on WR1 2 (Worcester)
Are property prices falling in WR1 2 (Worcester)?
Is WR1 2 (Worcester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR1 2 (Worcester)?
Are WR1 2 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WR1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 44 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR1 district, not just WR1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Wellington Close, Worcester, Worcester
- Woodbine Road, Barbourne, Worcester, WR1, Worcester
- Magdala Court, The Butts
"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 WR1 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 WR
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WR area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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 |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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.
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:
Zoom out to the full WR1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WR1 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WR1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the WR1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WR1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WR1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WR1 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.