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Upper Welland market report WR14 2, Malvern
The WR14 2 (Upper Welland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,824 HM Land Registry entries for WR14 2 (Malvern), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 54 registered 2026 sales put the WR14 2 (Malvern) median at £322,500, up 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £329,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,380 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,824 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WR14 2 is one sector of WR14 (Malvern): 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 WR14 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.
What a home in WR14 2 sells for
Across 54 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WR14 2 home went for £322,500. The mean is £329,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in WR14 2
A square metre of WR14 2 home has cost about £3,380 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WR14 2 trades 13% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WR14 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £322,500 | £322,500 | 54 |
| 2025 | £310,500 | £317,925 | 135 |
| 2024 | £297,500 | £316,304 | 142 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 119 |
| 2022 | £307,500 | £360,579 | 137 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 188 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 108 |
| 2019 | £241,000 | £315,893 | 126 |
| 2018 | £249,500 | £332,588 | 126 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 140 |
| 2016 | £222,500 | £311,280 | 138 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 166 |
| 2014 | £216,000 | £306,434 | 148 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 143 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 109 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 125 |
| 2010 | £181,800 | £285,109 | 130 |
| 2009 | £172,000 | £276,491 | 139 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 107 |
| 2007 | £194,200 | £329,417 | 201 |
| 2006 | £186,200 | £323,219 | 158 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 135 |
| 2004 | £163,000 | £296,040 | 194 |
| 2003 | £152,000 | £280,021 | 161 |
| 2002 | £126,500 | £238,009 | 198 |
| 2001 | £103,800 | £199,550 | 196 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 174 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 239 |
| 1998 | £79,200 | £159,871 | 188 |
| 1997 | £68,400 | £140,275 | 227 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 171 |
| 1995 | £64,800 | £140,865 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical WR14 2 home went from £64,800 in 1995 to £322,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 129%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WR14 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 2002 (+21.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−12.0%). 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 years (since 2025) | +3.9% | +1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
WR14 2 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 117 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 shape of the WR14 2 market
This is a thin market: 54 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 rental side of WR14 2
For renting purposes WR14 2 sits in Malvern Hills. The ONS average private rent there is £940 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £692 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,474 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Malvern Hills
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£940 a month is £11,280 a year, which against the £322,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
WR14 2 (Upper Welland): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WR14 2 (Upper Welland)?
Is WR14 2 (Upper Welland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR14 2 (Upper Welland)?
Are WR14 2 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
What you could buy in WR14 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 99 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR14 district, not just WR14 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% 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.
- Wykewane, Malvern, Worcestershire
- Christ Church Road, Malvern, Worcestershire
- Hey Close, Malvern, Worcestershire
"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 WR14 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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 | — | £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. 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 WR14
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WR14, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR14 1 | £292,500 | 80 |
| WR14 3 | £353,800 | 42 |
| WR14 4 | £325,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full WR14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR14 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WR14 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WR14 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the WR14 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WR14 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WR14 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WR14 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WR14 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.