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Powick market report WR2 6, Worcester
The WR2 6 (Powick) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,923 registered sales in WR2 6 (Worcester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WR2 6 (Worcester) sold for £303,000 in 2026, the median of 44 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £334,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,570 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,923 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WR2 6 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 6 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 6 homes really sell for
In the WR2 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £303,000, from 44 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £334,100, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WR2 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WR2 6 costs about £3,570 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WR2 6 6% above the national figure.
A typical WR2 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £303,000 | £303,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 143 |
| 2024 | £322,000 | £342,352 | 171 |
| 2023 | £305,500 | £335,670 | 118 |
| 2022 | £305,000 | £357,647 | 134 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 159 |
| 2020 | £266,000 | £345,140 | 106 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 148 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 120 |
| 2017 | £246,000 | £335,519 | 118 |
| 2016 | £215,500 | £301,487 | 136 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 125 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 113 |
| 2013 | £179,000 | £257,563 | 98 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 79 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 97 |
| 2010 | £184,500 | £289,344 | 70 |
| 2009 | £184,000 | £295,782 | 74 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 73 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 138 |
| 2006 | £189,000 | £328,080 | 161 |
| 2005 | £183,500 | £326,556 | 105 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 123 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 119 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 173 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 141 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 146 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 151 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 126 |
| 1997 | £71,000 | £145,607 | 149 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 144 |
| 1995 | £59,500 | £129,344 | 121 |
In cash terms the typical WR2 6 home went from £59,500 in 1995 to £303,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 134%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WR2 6 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 (+36.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
WR2 6 recorded 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 122 sales a year recently, against 138 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.
What tenants pay around WR2 6
The local authority for WR2 6 is Malvern Hills, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £303,000 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 3.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the WR2 6 market
This is a thin market: 44 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.
What people ask about WR2 6 (Powick)
How much did a house sell for in WR2 6 (Powick)?
Are property prices falling in WR2 6 (Powick)?
Is WR2 6 (Powick) a good place to buy a house?
Will WR2 6 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WR2 now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Lechmere Crescent, Worcester, Worcestershire
- Callows Orchard, Rushwick, Worcester
- Malvern Close, Lower Broadheath, Worcester, 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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WR
Real sold prices by size across the WR area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 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 5 | £280,000 | 82 |
Zoom out to the full WR2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WR2 6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WR2 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the WR2 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WR2 6 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 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WR2 6.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WR2 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR2 6 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.