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Worcester market report WR1

The standing WR1 (Worcester) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 7,633 registered sales in WR1 (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.

Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: a typical WR1 (Worcester) home changed hands for £170,000 in 2026 (median of 57 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £193,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,820 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,633 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

The postcode district WR1 covering Worcester sits in Worcester. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.

What a home in WR1 sells for

The WR1 median stands at £170,000 for 2026, built from 57 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £193,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

Price per square metre in WR1

A square metre of WR1 home has cost about £2,820 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WR1 40% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical WR1 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 86%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2016 (+23.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.9%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £576,800 against £147,100 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

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 WR1

The register shows 144 WR1 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 316 sales a year before the financial crisis and 176 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.

The rental side of WR1

WR1 falls under Worcester, 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.

Against the £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £965 a month (£11,580 a year) works out at a 6.8% 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.

How WR1 trades

This is a thin market: 144 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. By median price WR1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.

What people ask about WR1 (Worcester)

Will WR1 prices rise from here?

No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.

What you could buy in WR1 now

Bedroom by bedroom: WR prices by size

The risers and the fallers

WR1 ranks 13 of 15 in the WR area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.

Inside WR1, sector by sector

Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.

How WR1 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WR area, dearest first:

Thinking of selling in WR1? Get a rough value first

Dig further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WR1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual WR1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.