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Powick market report WR2 5, Worcester
The WR2 5 (Powick) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,238 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WR2 5 (Worcester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WR2 5 (Worcester) is £280,000, from 82 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £297,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,238 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WR2 5 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 5 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 WR2 5 homes really sell for
The WR2 5 median stands at £280,000 for 2026, built from 82 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £297,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WR2 5
Per square metre, WR2 5 homes have averaged around £3,170 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WR2 5 sits 2% below the national market.
The price of a typical WR2 5 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 82 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 270 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 273 |
| 2023 | £288,800 | £317,321 | 248 |
| 2022 | £266,400 | £312,384 | 238 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 289 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 187 |
| 2019 | £197,500 | £258,875 | 210 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 176 |
| 2017 | £195,200 | £266,233 | 170 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 181 |
| 2015 | £196,000 | £276,948 | 194 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 240 |
| 2013 | £168,500 | £242,455 | 192 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 145 |
| 2011 | £153,500 | £231,726 | 147 |
| 2010 | £154,200 | £241,825 | 110 |
| 2009 | £151,200 | £243,055 | 84 |
| 2008 | £164,000 | £268,831 | 122 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 221 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 255 |
| 2005 | £147,500 | £262,491 | 181 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 231 |
| 2003 | £119,500 | £220,148 | 225 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 225 |
| 2001 | £80,600 | £154,949 | 208 |
| 2000 | £70,800 | £138,945 | 170 |
| 1999 | £63,200 | £125,954 | 228 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 204 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 237 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 162 |
| 1995 | £47,400 | £103,040 | 133 |
In cash terms the typical WR2 5 home went from £47,400 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 172%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR2 5 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 2003 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−10.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WR2 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.8% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in WR2 5
The year-by-year sales count
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, 82 sales completed in WR2 5. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 222 sales a year recently, against 215 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around WR2 5
The local authority for WR2 5 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.
£965 a month is £11,580 a year, which against the £280,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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 WR2 5 (Powick)
Is WR2 5 (Powick) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR2 5 (Powick)?
Are property prices falling in WR2 5 (Powick)?
Will WR2 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 WR2 today
Turning to what is actually available: 54 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR2 district, not just WR2 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in WR2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WR2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR2 4 | £320,000 | 54 |
| 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 a home in WR2 5? 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 WR2 5'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 WR2 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WR2 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR2 5 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.
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.