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Kempsey market report WR5 2, Worcester
The WR5 2 (Kempsey) 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: 6,087 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WR5 2 (Worcester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WR5 2 (Worcester) came in at £316,600, out of 58 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £340,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,087 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WR5 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WR5 (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 WR5 2 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 WR5 2 homes really sell for
58 sales were registered in WR5 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £316,600. The mean works out at £340,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WR5 2
The last five years of sales put WR5 2 at roughly £3,350 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WR5 2 trades 11% above the country as a whole.
WR5 2's median sold price, 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 | £316,600 | £316,600 | 58 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 196 |
| 2024 | £311,600 | £331,295 | 189 |
| 2023 | £318,000 | £349,404 | 171 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 182 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 262 |
| 2020 | £254,000 | £329,570 | 188 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 185 |
| 2018 | £262,000 | £349,251 | 182 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 236 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 216 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 209 |
| 2014 | £190,500 | £270,258 | 152 |
| 2013 | £189,500 | £272,672 | 130 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 146 |
| 2011 | £188,500 | £284,563 | 104 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 118 |
| 2009 | £181,000 | £290,959 | 123 |
| 2008 | £189,000 | £309,811 | 123 |
| 2007 | £203,000 | £344,345 | 189 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 211 |
| 2005 | £189,500 | £337,234 | 177 |
| 2004 | £176,000 | £319,650 | 187 |
| 2003 | £178,200 | £328,288 | 206 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 226 |
| 2001 | £109,200 | £209,931 | 236 |
| 2000 | £86,100 | £168,971 | 203 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 273 |
| 1998 | £82,500 | £166,532 | 284 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 274 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 257 |
| 1995 | £62,000 | £134,778 | 194 |
In cash terms the typical WR5 2 home went from £62,000 in 1995 to £316,600 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 135%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR5 2 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 2003 (+42.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.5% | −1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WR5 2 recorded 58 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 204 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 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.
Reading the WR5 2 market
Only 58 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WR5 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WR5, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around WR5 2
WR5 2 falls under Worcester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £965 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £703 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,525, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Worcester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £316,600 median purchase price, a rent of £965 a month (£11,580 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.
Asked and answered: WR5 2 (Kempsey)
How much did a house sell for in WR5 2 (Kempsey)?
Are property prices falling in WR5 2 (Kempsey)?
Is WR5 2 (Kempsey) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WR5 2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 WR5 right 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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WR area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
WR area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WR5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WR5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR5 1 | £255,500 | 45 |
| 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.
Selling in WR5 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WR5 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the WR5 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WR5 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WR5 2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WR5 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR5 2 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.