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Kempsey market report WR5, Worcester
The WR5 (Kempsey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 20,312 HM Land Registry entries for WR5 (Worcester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WR5 (Worcester) is £275,000, from 196 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £302,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 20,312 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WR5 is the postcode district covering Kempsey, Broomhall 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 WR5 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 homes really sell for
196 sales were registered in WR5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £275,000. The mean works out at £302,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WR5
A square metre of WR5 home has cost about £3,290 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WR5 sits 4% below the national market.
WR5's median sold price, 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 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 196 |
| 2025 | £277,500 | £284,136 | 561 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 545 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 500 |
| 2022 | £276,500 | £324,228 | 642 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 864 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 574 |
| 2019 | £248,000 | £325,069 | 555 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 636 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 701 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 680 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 647 |
| 2014 | £189,000 | £268,130 | 594 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 463 |
| 2012 | £174,000 | £256,106 | 454 |
| 2011 | £168,000 | £253,615 | 386 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 416 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 442 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 446 |
| 2007 | £176,800 | £299,902 | 690 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 815 |
| 2005 | £157,500 | £280,287 | 645 |
| 2004 | £159,000 | £288,775 | 653 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 693 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 814 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 825 |
| 2000 | £77,700 | £152,486 | 742 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 1,030 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 931 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 837 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 734 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 601 |
In cash terms the typical WR5 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 143%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% 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 WR5 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.7%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £373,000 against £165,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WR5
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 | £373,000 | 56 | 6,636 |
| Semi-detached | £270,000 | 69 | 6,297 |
| Terraced | £242,000 | 50 | 5,052 |
| Flats | £165,000 | 21 | 2,327 |
What WR5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.9% | −3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in WR5
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WR5 recorded 450 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 735 sales a year before the financial crisis and 489 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 tenants pay around WR5
For renting purposes WR5 sits in Worcester. The ONS average private rent there is £965 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £703 a month here against £1,525 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Worcester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £275,000 median purchase price, a rent of £965 a month (£11,580 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
How WR5 trades
In its area's price order WR5 comes 13 of 15, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: WR5 (Kempsey)
Are property prices falling in WR5 (Kempsey)?
Is WR5 (Kempsey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR5 (Kempsey)?
Are WR5 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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
Everything above is what homes in WR5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 69 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% above the WR5 median sold price.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in WR
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%) | — | — |
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
WR5 ranks 10 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 WR5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WR5 1 | £255,500 | 45 |
| WR5 2 | £316,600 | 58 |
| WR5 3 | £270,000 | 93 |
How WR5 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 | £295,100 | +15% |
| WR11 | £295,000 | +5% |
| WR2 | £294,000 | +11% |
| WR15 | £291,000 | -9% |
| WR5 (this report) | £275,000 | +4% |
| WR4 | £238,000 | +17% |
| WR1 | £170,000 | -8% |
Selling a home in WR5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WR5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WR5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WR5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Dig further
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See every individual WR5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.