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Fernhill Heath market report WR3, Worcester
The WR3 (Fernhill Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 12,543 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WR3 (Worcester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WR3 (Worcester) home changed hands for £295,100 in 2026 (median of 112 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier), with the mean at £317,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,240 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 12,543 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WR3 is the postcode district covering Fernhill Heath, Claines in Worcester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WR3 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 a home in WR3 sells for
In the WR3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,100, from 112 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £317,700, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WR3
Per square metre, WR3 homes have averaged around £3,240 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WR3 4% above the national figure.
A typical WR3 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 | £295,100 | £295,100 | 112 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 361 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 308 |
| 2023 | £293,500 | £322,485 | 288 |
| 2022 | £263,000 | £308,398 | 351 |
| 2021 | £257,200 | £325,648 | 500 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 298 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 393 |
| 2018 | £231,500 | £308,594 | 465 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 396 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 450 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 392 |
| 2014 | £191,200 | £271,251 | 424 |
| 2013 | £178,000 | £256,124 | 348 |
| 2012 | £166,500 | £245,067 | 286 |
| 2011 | £171,000 | £258,144 | 252 |
| 2010 | £167,600 | £262,840 | 250 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 289 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 239 |
| 2007 | £177,500 | £301,089 | 491 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 545 |
| 2005 | £148,500 | £264,270 | 444 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 462 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 447 |
| 2002 | £114,000 | £214,490 | 611 |
| 2001 | £104,500 | £200,896 | 552 |
| 2000 | £82,800 | £162,495 | 491 |
| 1999 | £70,700 | £140,901 | 504 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 455 |
| 1997 | £53,400 | £109,513 | 456 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 396 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 287 |
In cash terms the typical WR3 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £295,100 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 172%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 9% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WR3 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 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.0%). 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, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £420,000 against £155,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, WR3
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 | £420,000 | 37 | 3,480 |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | 33 | 4,371 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 29 | 3,228 |
| Flats | £155,000 | 13 | 1,464 |
What WR3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WR3 recorded 254 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 505 sales a year before the financial crisis and 284 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.
What tenants pay around WR3
The local authority for WR3 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 £295,100 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
Common questions on WR3 (Fernhill Heath)
Is WR3 (Fernhill Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR3 (Fernhill Heath)?
Are property prices falling in WR3 (Fernhill Heath)?
Where do WR3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WR3 right now
Everything above is what homes in WR3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 41 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 36% above the WR3 median sold price.
10% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Northwick Close, Worcester, Worcestershire
- Tamarisk Close, Claines, Worcester
- Northwick Close, Northwick, Worcester
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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WR: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WR area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WR3 ranks 2 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.
Five-year change in the median, WR area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WR3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WR3 7 | £338,900 | 64 |
| WR3 8 | £222,500 | 48 |
How WR3 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 (this report) | £295,100 | +15% |
| WR11 | £295,000 | +5% |
| WR2 | £294,000 | +11% |
| WR15 | £291,000 | -9% |
| WR5 | £275,000 | +4% |
| WR4 | £238,000 | +17% |
| WR1 | £170,000 | -8% |
Before you sell in WR3: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR3'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 WR3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WR3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR3 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.