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Upper Welland market report WR14, Malvern
The standing WR14 (Upper Welland) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 19,794 HM Land Registry entries for WR14 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WR14 (Malvern) home changed hands for £320,000 in 2026 (median of 207 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £339,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,370 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 19,794 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WR14 is the postcode district covering Malvern, Upper Welland in Malvern. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WR14 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 WR14
The 2026 median for WR14 is £320,000, taken from 207 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £339,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WR14
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WR14 sales average about £3,370 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WR14 12% above the country at large.
A typical WR14 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 207 |
| 2025 | £296,500 | £303,590 | 560 |
| 2024 | £297,500 | £316,304 | 581 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 531 |
| 2022 | £301,000 | £352,957 | 668 |
| 2021 | £279,500 | £353,883 | 819 |
| 2020 | £257,000 | £333,463 | 511 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 542 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 602 |
| 2017 | £228,000 | £310,969 | 617 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 594 |
| 2015 | £202,000 | £285,426 | 638 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 684 |
| 2013 | £188,000 | £270,513 | 593 |
| 2012 | £188,000 | £276,713 | 580 |
| 2011 | £183,000 | £276,260 | 531 |
| 2010 | £190,500 | £298,753 | 506 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 501 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 419 |
| 2007 | £202,800 | £344,005 | 740 |
| 2006 | £182,500 | £316,797 | 719 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 645 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 768 |
| 2003 | £152,000 | £280,021 | 697 |
| 2002 | £128,000 | £240,831 | 777 |
| 2001 | £99,000 | £190,322 | 697 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 686 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 857 |
| 1998 | £72,000 | £145,337 | 648 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 800 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 645 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 431 |
In cash terms the typical WR14 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 145%, 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 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WR14 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 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.8%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £422,500 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WR14
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 | £422,500 | 65 | 6,989 |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | 73 | 6,225 |
| Terraced | £237,000 | 31 | 2,924 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 38 | 3,656 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | +0.1% |
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
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 445 WR14 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 716 sales a year before the financial crisis and 509 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.
What homes rent for around WR14
The local authority for WR14 is Malvern Hills, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £692 a month here against £1,474 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £320,000 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.
What people ask about WR14 (Upper Welland)
Are property prices falling in WR14 (Upper Welland)?
Is WR14 (Upper Welland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR14 (Upper Welland)?
Where do WR14 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
WR14's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WR14 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 99 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the WR14 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 16% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WR area, from the Land Registry record. 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
WR14 ranks 3 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WR14, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR14 1 | £292,500 | 80 |
| WR14 2 | £322,500 | 54 |
| WR14 3 | £353,800 | 42 |
| WR14 4 | £325,000 | 31 |
How WR14 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WR7 | £485,000 | +8% |
| WR6 | £472,500 | +12% |
| WR12 | £430,000 | -9% |
| WR8 | £405,000 | +11% |
| WR13 | £363,800 | -4% |
| WR9 | £325,500 | +8% |
| WR10 | £320,000 | +2% |
| WR14 (this report) | £320,000 | +14% |
| WR3 | £295,100 | +15% |
| WR11 | £295,000 | +5% |
| WR2 | £294,000 | +11% |
| WR15 | £291,000 | -9% |
| WR5 | £275,000 | +4% |
| WR4 | £238,000 | +17% |
| WR1 | £170,000 | -8% |
Selling in WR14? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR14's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WR14.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WR14 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WR14 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.