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Fernhill Heath market report WR3 8, Worcester
The WR3 8 (Fernhill Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,861 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WR3 8 (Worcester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the WR3 8 (Worcester) median at £222,500, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £264,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,020 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,861 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WR3 8 is one sector of WR3 (Worcester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WR3 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.
The going rate for a home in WR3 8
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in WR3 8 and the middle price, the median, is £222,500. The mean lands at £264,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in WR3 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WR3 8 costs about £3,020 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WR3 8 22% below the country at large.
A typical WR3 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £222,500 | £222,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £258,500 | £264,682 | 164 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 145 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 115 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 168 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 217 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 121 |
| 2019 | £207,500 | £271,983 | 143 |
| 2018 | £197,500 | £263,271 | 193 |
| 2017 | £175,200 | £238,955 | 180 |
| 2016 | £185,500 | £259,516 | 214 |
| 2015 | £183,200 | £258,862 | 190 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 197 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 162 |
| 2012 | £142,500 | £209,742 | 122 |
| 2011 | £142,000 | £214,365 | 98 |
| 2010 | £148,800 | £233,357 | 108 |
| 2009 | £142,000 | £228,266 | 135 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 107 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 230 |
| 2006 | £151,000 | £262,117 | 276 |
| 2005 | £136,500 | £242,915 | 184 |
| 2004 | £138,000 | £250,635 | 217 |
| 2003 | £117,200 | £215,911 | 232 |
| 2002 | £101,000 | £190,031 | 320 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 238 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 239 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 255 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 247 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 247 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 201 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 148 |
In cash terms the typical WR3 8 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £222,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 133%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WR3 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 2001 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.9%). 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) | −13.9% | −15.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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 WR3 8
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 48 WR3 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 242 sales a year before the financial crisis and 128 a year over the last five. 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 kind of market WR3 8 is
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WR3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within WR3, this sector trades 25% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of WR3 8
WR3 8 falls under Worcester, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £222,500 median purchase price, a rent of £965 a month (£11,580 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
WR3 8 (Fernhill Heath): the questions that come up
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Will WR3 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in WR3 now
The live side of the market holds 41 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR3 district, not just WR3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Northwick Close, Worcester, Worcestershire
- Tamarisk Close, Claines, Worcester
- Northwick Close, Northwick, Worcester
"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 WR3 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: WR prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WR area, 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WR3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WR3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR3 7 | £338,900 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full WR3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WR3 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR3 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 WR3 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WR3 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WR3 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR3 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.