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Burford market report WR15 8, Tenbury Wells
The WR15 8 (Burford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,286 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WR15 8 (Tenbury Wells) 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 2026 median for WR15 8 (Tenbury Wells) is £291,000, from 43 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £341,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,130 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,286 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WR15 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WR15 (Tenbury Wells). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WR15 8 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 buyers actually paid in WR15 8
43 sales were registered in WR15 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £291,000. The mean works out at £341,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in WR15 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WR15 8 costs about £3,130 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WR15 8 runs 2% above it.
A typical WR15 8 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 | £291,000 | £291,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 97 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 97 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 65 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 105 |
| 2021 | £320,000 | £405,161 | 121 |
| 2020 | £286,000 | £371,091 | 94 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 85 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 106 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 113 |
| 2016 | £253,500 | £354,649 | 124 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 103 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 103 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 84 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 83 |
| 2011 | £233,000 | £351,740 | 68 |
| 2010 | £234,000 | £366,972 | 80 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 59 |
| 2008 | £198,000 | £324,564 | 79 |
| 2007 | £227,200 | £385,394 | 114 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 119 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 95 |
| 2004 | £179,500 | £326,007 | 108 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 145 |
| 2002 | £122,800 | £231,047 | 166 |
| 2001 | £87,500 | £168,214 | 167 |
| 2000 | £78,500 | £154,056 | 97 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 130 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 119 |
| 1997 | £65,900 | £135,148 | 126 |
| 1996 | £59,200 | £124,850 | 115 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 76 |
In cash terms the typical WR15 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £291,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR15 8 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 (+40.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−14.4%). 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) | −14.4% | −16.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
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
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.
The register shows 43 WR15 8 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 126 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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 kind of market WR15 8 is
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WR15 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of WR15 8
For renting purposes WR15 8 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.
Set against the £291,000 median sold price, £940 a month is £11,280 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
Common questions on WR15 8 (Burford)
How much did a house sell for in WR15 8 (Burford)?
Are property prices falling in WR15 8 (Burford)?
Is WR15 8 (Burford) a good place to buy a house?
Are WR15 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% 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.
On the market in WR15 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 8 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR15 district, not just WR15 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every WR15 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%) | — | — |
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
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.
Zoom out to the full WR15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR15 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WR15 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR15 8'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.
Estate agents working WR15 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WR15 8.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every WR15 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.