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Kempsey market report WR5 1, Worcester
The standing WR5 1 (Kempsey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,169 registered sales in WR5 1 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 45 registered 2026 sales put the WR5 1 (Worcester) median at £255,500, up 0% on five years earlier, with a mean of £273,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,050 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,169 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WR5 1 is one sector of WR5 (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 WR5 1 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 WR5 1
The WR5 1 median stands at £255,500 for 2026, built from 45 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £273,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WR5 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WR5 1 sales average about £3,050 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WR5 1 trades 10% below the country as a whole.
A typical WR5 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,500 | £255,500 | 45 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 134 |
| 2024 | £247,500 | £263,143 | 130 |
| 2023 | £249,200 | £273,810 | 137 |
| 2022 | £264,000 | £309,570 | 202 |
| 2021 | £255,000 | £322,863 | 300 |
| 2020 | £268,500 | £348,384 | 190 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 136 |
| 2018 | £180,800 | £241,010 | 146 |
| 2017 | £172,000 | £234,591 | 113 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 118 |
| 2015 | £180,500 | £255,047 | 159 |
| 2014 | £173,000 | £245,431 | 177 |
| 2013 | £147,000 | £211,518 | 117 |
| 2012 | £143,200 | £210,773 | 103 |
| 2011 | £146,200 | £220,706 | 92 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 91 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 111 |
| 2008 | £148,000 | £242,603 | 116 |
| 2007 | £150,500 | £255,290 | 179 |
| 2006 | £136,800 | £237,467 | 236 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 188 |
| 2004 | £127,700 | £231,928 | 178 |
| 2003 | £100,600 | £185,330 | 172 |
| 2002 | £86,500 | £162,749 | 225 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 205 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 198 |
| 1999 | £53,600 | £106,822 | 262 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 171 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 197 |
| 1996 | £40,400 | £85,202 | 175 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 166 |
In cash terms the typical WR5 1 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £255,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 177%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR5 1 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 2004 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−11.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WR5 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
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 register shows 45 WR5 1 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 198 sales a year before the financial crisis and 130 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WR5 1
WR5 1 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.
Set against the £255,500 median sold price, £965 a month is £11,580 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market WR5 1 is
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WR5 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Real searches this page gets asked
To the person who searched house valuation wr5
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £255,500 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
WR5 1 (Kempsey): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WR5 1 (Kempsey)?
Is WR5 1 (Kempsey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR5 1 (Kempsey)?
Where do WR5 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 you could buy in WR5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 69 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR5 district, not just WR5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 49 Peninsula Road, Norton, Worcester, WR5 2SE, Norton
- Toulouse Drive, Brockhill Village, Norton, Worcester
- Cooke Close, Whittington, 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 WR5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WR
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%) | — | — |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WR5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WR5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR5 2 | £316,600 | 58 |
| WR5 3 | £270,000 | 93 |
Zoom out to the full WR5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WR5 1: 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 WR5 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WR5 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WR5 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR5 1 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.