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Powick market report WR2 4, Worcester
The standing WR2 4 (Powick) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,688 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WR2 4 (Worcester) 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 middle 2026 sale in WR2 4 (Worcester) came in at £320,000, out of 54 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £347,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,320 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,688 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WR2 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WR2 (Worcester). 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 WR2 4 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 WR2 4
The 2026 median for WR2 4 is £320,000, taken from 54 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £347,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WR2 4
A square metre of WR2 4 home has cost about £3,320 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 WR2 4 12% above the country at large.
WR2 4's median sold price, 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 | 54 |
| 2025 | £299,300 | £306,457 | 168 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 145 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 111 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 165 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 253 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 155 |
| 2019 | £254,000 | £332,933 | 186 |
| 2018 | £242,500 | £323,257 | 161 |
| 2017 | £219,200 | £298,967 | 192 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 175 |
| 2015 | £200,700 | £283,589 | 170 |
| 2014 | £190,500 | £270,258 | 173 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 161 |
| 2012 | £183,000 | £269,353 | 135 |
| 2011 | £176,000 | £265,692 | 145 |
| 2010 | £183,800 | £288,246 | 108 |
| 2009 | £174,500 | £280,510 | 110 |
| 2008 | £187,500 | £307,352 | 108 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 191 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 226 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 209 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 213 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 229 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 249 |
| 2001 | £96,000 | £184,555 | 213 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 205 |
| 1999 | £79,500 | £158,439 | 216 |
| 1998 | £67,200 | £135,648 | 196 |
| 1997 | £73,200 | £150,118 | 254 |
| 1996 | £57,300 | £120,843 | 220 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 192 |
In cash terms the typical WR2 4 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 163%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 9% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WR2 4 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 (+38.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.5%). 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) | +6.9% | +4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WR2 4
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 54 sales completed in WR2 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 217 sales a year before the financial crisis and 129 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.
How WR2 4 trades
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. Against the WR2 district median, WR2 4 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around WR2 4
The local authority for WR2 4 is Worcester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £320,000 median sold price, £965 a month is £11,580 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
What people ask about WR2 4 (Powick)
Is WR2 4 (Powick) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR2 4 (Powick)?
Are property prices falling in WR2 4 (Powick)?
Are WR2 4 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 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
WR2's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 54 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR2 district, not just WR2 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 19% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Lechmere Crescent, Worcester, Worcestershire
- Callows Orchard, Rushwick, Worcester
- Malvern Close, Lower Broadheath, Worcester, Worcestershire
"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 WR2 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
Real sold prices by size across the WR area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WR2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WR2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR2 5 | £280,000 | 82 |
| WR2 6 | £303,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full WR2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WR2 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WR2 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WR2 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WR2 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WR2 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WR2 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WR2 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WR2 4 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.