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Kempsey market report WR5 3, Worcester
The WR5 3 (Kempsey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,055 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WR5 3 (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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 93 registered 2026 sales put the WR5 3 (Worcester) median at £270,000, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £292,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,055 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WR5 3 is a single group of streets within WR5 (Worcester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WR5 3 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 3
93 sales were registered in WR5 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,000. The mean works out at £292,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WR5 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WR5 3 costs about £3,410 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WR5 3 trades 5% below the country as a whole.
A typical WR5 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 93 |
| 2025 | £277,500 | £284,136 | 231 |
| 2024 | £290,500 | £308,861 | 226 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 192 |
| 2022 | £267,000 | £313,088 | 258 |
| 2021 | £249,600 | £316,026 | 302 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 196 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 234 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 308 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 352 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 346 |
| 2015 | £191,000 | £269,883 | 279 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 265 |
| 2013 | £181,000 | £260,441 | 216 |
| 2012 | £177,200 | £260,816 | 204 |
| 2011 | £184,200 | £278,071 | 190 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 207 |
| 2009 | £170,500 | £274,080 | 208 |
| 2008 | £182,500 | £299,156 | 207 |
| 2007 | £194,700 | £330,265 | 322 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 368 |
| 2005 | £163,500 | £290,964 | 280 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 288 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 315 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 363 |
| 2001 | £91,400 | £175,712 | 384 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 341 |
| 1999 | £79,000 | £157,443 | 495 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 476 |
| 1997 | £64,200 | £131,661 | 366 |
| 1996 | £54,500 | £114,938 | 302 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 241 |
In cash terms the typical WR5 3 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WR5 3 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 (+27.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WR5 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.7% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WR5 3 recorded 93 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 333 sales a year before the financial crisis and 200 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.
The rental side of WR5 3
For renting purposes WR5 3 sits in Worcester. The ONS average private rent there is £965 a month (May 2026). 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 £270,000 median purchase price, a rent of £965 a month (£11,580 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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 3 (Kempsey)
Are property prices falling in WR5 3 (Kempsey)?
Is WR5 3 (Kempsey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR5 3 (Kempsey)?
Are WR5 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WR5 now
The live side of the market holds 69 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR5 district, not just WR5 3: 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
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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WR: the cost
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. 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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WR5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR5 1 | £255,500 | 45 |
| WR5 2 | £316,600 | 58 |
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 3: 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 3'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 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WR5 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR5 3 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.