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Worcester market report WR1
The WR1 (Worcester) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,648 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 August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical WR1 (Worcester) home changed hands for £170,500 in 2026 (median of 70 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £197,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,648 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.
Where WR1 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 sells for
The WR1 median stands at £170,500 for 2026, built from 70 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £197,600, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WR1
A square metre of WR1 home has cost about £2,830 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.
A typical WR1 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 | £170,500 | £170,500 | 70 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 200 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 201 |
| 2023 | £189,000 | £207,665 | 177 |
| 2022 | £194,500 | £228,073 | 245 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 222 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 173 |
| 2019 | £168,500 | £220,863 | 205 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 286 |
| 2017 | £174,700 | £238,273 | 295 |
| 2016 | £182,700 | £255,599 | 311 |
| 2015 | £147,500 | £208,418 | 197 |
| 2014 | £144,000 | £204,289 | 234 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 205 |
| 2012 | £158,200 | £232,851 | 170 |
| 2011 | £147,500 | £222,668 | 142 |
| 2010 | £140,500 | £220,340 | 162 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 193 |
| 2008 | £142,200 | £233,096 | 210 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 286 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 431 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 303 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 247 |
| 2003 | £106,000 | £195,278 | 306 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 313 |
| 2001 | £75,800 | £145,722 | 336 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 307 |
| 1999 | £56,800 | £113,199 | 288 |
| 1998 | £49,700 | £100,323 | 286 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 267 |
| 1996 | £41,800 | £88,154 | 231 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 149 |
In cash terms the typical WR1 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £170,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 87%: 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.
Year-on-year change in the WR1 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 2016 (+23.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.7%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £576,800 against £148,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WR1
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 | £576,800 (2025) | – | 272 |
| Semi-detached | £425,000 (2025) | – | 880 |
| Terraced | £265,000 | 21 | 3,078 |
| Flats | £154,000 | 45 | 3,393 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −20.7% | −22.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −0.9% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.7% | −4.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.7% | −2.1% |
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.
Sales activity in WR1
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
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 179 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Worcester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £170,500 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)
Are property prices falling in WR1 (Worcester)?
Is WR1 (Worcester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in 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
Everything above is what homes in WR1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 44 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the WR1 median sold price.
Set against 144 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 44 homes on the market here are roughly 4 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Wellington Close, Worcester, Worcester
- Woodbine Road, Barbourne, Worcester, WR1, Worcester
- Magdala Court, The Butts
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Listed against sold: the WR1 mix
Sellers of flats in WR1 have company: 81% of current listings against 42% 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 | 0% | 4% |
| Semi-detached | 8% | 11% |
| Terraced | 11% | 42% |
| Flats | 81% | 42% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side.
Month by month: when WR1 sells
Across the 1,045 sales completed in WR1 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.2% of the total) and January the quietest (6.9%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 72 | 6.9% |
| February | 78 | 7.5% |
| March | 117 | 11.2% |
| April | 75 | 7.2% |
| May | 75 | 7.2% |
| June | 84 | 8.0% |
| July | 85 | 8.1% |
| August | 83 | 7.9% |
| September | 99 | 9.5% |
| October | 89 | 8.5% |
| November | 93 | 8.9% |
| December | 95 | 9.1% |
Bedroom by bedroom: WR prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WR area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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 |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WR1 ranks 14 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.
WR area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
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:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WR7 | £540,000 | +20% |
| WR6 | £495,000 | +17% |
| WR12 | £435,000 | -8% |
| WR8 | £395,000 | +8% |
| WR13 | £362,500 | -5% |
| WR10 | £332,500 | +6% |
| WR9 | £325,000 | +8% |
| WR14 | £320,000 | +14% |
| WR3 | £302,500 | +18% |
| WR11 | £297,000 | +6% |
| WR2 | £294,000 | +11% |
| WR15 | £288,000 | -10% |
| WR5 | £278,000 | +5% |
| WR4 | £240,000 | +18% |
| WR1 (this report) | £170,500 | -8% |
Thinking of selling in WR1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WR1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WR1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WR1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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.