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Worcester market report WR1 3
The standing WR1 3 (Worcester) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,122 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WR1 3 (Worcester) 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 typical home in WR1 3 (Worcester) sold for £170,500 in 2026, the median of 10 registered sales, down 35% on five years earlier. The mean was £255,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,990 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,122 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WR1 3 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 3 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 a home in WR1 3 sells for
The 2026 median for WR1 3 is £170,500, taken from 10 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £255,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
WR1 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WR1 3 costs about £2,990 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WR1 3 40% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WR1 3 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 | £170,500 | £170,500 | 10 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 55 |
| 2024 | £287,500 | £305,672 | 52 |
| 2023 | £226,500 | £248,868 | 54 |
| 2022 | £255,500 | £299,603 | 64 |
| 2021 | £263,000 | £332,992 | 59 |
| 2020 | £227,500 | £295,186 | 40 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 59 |
| 2018 | £164,200 | £218,882 | 64 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 62 |
| 2016 | £181,100 | £253,361 | 64 |
| 2015 | £172,000 | £243,036 | 55 |
| 2014 | £192,000 | £272,386 | 55 |
| 2013 | £173,000 | £248,930 | 65 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 51 |
| 2011 | £166,000 | £250,596 | 37 |
| 2010 | £198,500 | £311,299 | 46 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 67 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 91 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 74 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 138 |
| 2005 | £151,000 | £268,719 | 90 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 61 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 78 |
| 2002 | £96,500 | £181,564 | 74 |
| 2001 | £92,500 | £177,827 | 81 |
| 2000 | £82,200 | £161,318 | 81 |
| 1999 | £92,200 | £183,750 | 110 |
| 1998 | £61,500 | £124,142 | 82 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 87 |
| 1996 | £54,800 | £115,571 | 66 |
| 1995 | £50,100 | £108,910 | 50 |
In cash terms the typical WR1 3 home went from £50,100 in 1995 to £170,500 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 57%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 49% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WR1 3 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 2010 (+52.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−47.5%). 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) | −47.5% | −48.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.3% | −12.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.3% | −2.4% |
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
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.
WR1 3 recorded 10 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 85 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 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 WR1 3
WR1 3 falls under Worcester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £965 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £170,500 median sold price, £965 a month is £11,580 a year, a gross yield of 6.8%: 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.
Reading the WR1 3 market
This is a thin market: 10 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Common questions on WR1 3 (Worcester)
Is WR1 3 (Worcester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR1 3 (Worcester)?
Are property prices falling in WR1 3 (Worcester)?
Where do WR1 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 35% over five years in cash but down 49% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in WR1 now
Turning to what is actually available: 41 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR1 district, not just WR1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 1 | £155,000 | 34 |
| WR1 2 | £212,500 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full WR1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WR1 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WR1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WR1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WR1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WR1 3.
Dig further
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See every individual WR1 3 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.