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Powick market report WR2, Worcester
The WR2 (Powick) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 15,849 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WR2 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 180 registered 2026 sales put the WR2 (Worcester) median at £294,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £321,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,310 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 15,849 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WR2 is a postcode district covering Powick, Hallow in Worcester. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WR2 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 homes really sell for
180 sales were registered in WR2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £294,000. The mean works out at £321,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WR2 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WR2 at roughly £3,310 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WR2 3% above the national figure.
A typical WR2 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £294,000 | £294,000 | 180 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 581 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 589 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 477 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 537 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 701 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 448 |
| 2019 | £237,500 | £311,306 | 544 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 457 |
| 2017 | £212,500 | £289,829 | 480 |
| 2016 | £195,500 | £273,506 | 492 |
| 2015 | £202,500 | £286,133 | 489 |
| 2014 | £191,000 | £270,967 | 526 |
| 2013 | £175,500 | £252,527 | 451 |
| 2012 | £179,000 | £263,466 | 359 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 389 |
| 2010 | £174,000 | £272,877 | 288 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 268 |
| 2008 | £178,500 | £292,599 | 303 |
| 2007 | £186,400 | £316,186 | 550 |
| 2006 | £171,500 | £297,702 | 642 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 495 |
| 2004 | £154,000 | £279,694 | 567 |
| 2003 | £134,000 | £246,860 | 573 |
| 2002 | £117,500 | £221,075 | 647 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 562 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 521 |
| 1999 | £73,500 | £146,482 | 595 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 526 |
| 1997 | £62,500 | £128,175 | 640 |
| 1996 | £55,900 | £117,891 | 526 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 446 |
In cash terms the typical WR2 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £294,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR2 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 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.6%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £400,000 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WR2
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 | £370,000 | 60 | 5,240 |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | 75 | 6,223 |
| Terraced | £255,000 | 41 | 3,679 |
| Flats | £140,000 (2025) | – | 703 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
Sales activity in WR2
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 384 WR2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 473 sales a year recently, against 570 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WR2
For renting purposes WR2 sits in Worcester. The ONS average private rent there is £965 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £703 a month here against £1,525 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Worcester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £294,000 median purchase price, a rent of £965 a month (£11,580 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
Asked and answered: WR2 (Powick)
Are property prices falling in WR2 (Powick)?
Is WR2 (Powick) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR2 (Powick)?
Are WR2 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 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
What is for sale in WR2 right now
Everything above is what homes in WR2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 54 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 39% above the WR2 median sold price.
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
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 WR2 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
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WR2 ranks 6 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WR2, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR2 4 | £320,000 | 54 |
| WR2 5 | £280,000 | 82 |
| WR2 6 | £303,000 | 44 |
How WR2 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 | £320,000 | +14% |
| WR3 | £295,100 | +15% |
| WR11 | £295,000 | +5% |
| WR2 (this report) | £294,000 | +11% |
| WR15 | £291,000 | -9% |
| WR5 | £275,000 | +4% |
| WR4 | £238,000 | +17% |
| WR1 | £170,000 | -8% |
Before you sell in WR2: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WR2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WR2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WR2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every WR2 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.