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Martley market report WR6 5, Worcester
The WR6 5 (Martley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,078 registered sales in WR6 5 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WR6 5 (Worcester) sold for £510,000 in 2026, the median of 16 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier. The mean was £565,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,078 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WR6 5 is one sector of WR6 (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 WR6 5 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 WR6 5
In the WR6 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £510,000, from 16 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £565,900, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WR6 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WR6 5 sales average about £3,450 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 WR6 5 trades 79% above the country as a whole.
WR6 5's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £510,000 | £510,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £434,000 | £444,378 | 90 |
| 2024 | £397,500 | £422,624 | 52 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 39 |
| 2022 | £442,500 | £518,882 | 62 |
| 2021 | £397,500 | £503,286 | 93 |
| 2020 | £357,500 | £463,864 | 54 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 81 |
| 2018 | £337,500 | £449,894 | 62 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 91 |
| 2016 | £267,500 | £374,235 | 84 |
| 2015 | £327,500 | £462,758 | 62 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 59 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 48 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 40 |
| 2011 | £275,000 | £415,144 | 45 |
| 2010 | £274,500 | £430,487 | 60 |
| 2009 | £280,000 | £450,102 | 38 |
| 2008 | £340,000 | £557,332 | 40 |
| 2007 | £275,000 | £466,477 | 81 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 73 |
| 2005 | £280,000 | £498,287 | 59 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 77 |
| 2003 | £246,000 | £453,192 | 66 |
| 2002 | £230,000 | £432,743 | 100 |
| 2001 | £186,000 | £357,576 | 70 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 62 |
| 1999 | £145,000 | £288,977 | 82 |
| 1998 | £127,500 | £257,368 | 85 |
| 1997 | £112,500 | £230,715 | 76 |
| 1996 | £92,200 | £194,446 | 74 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical WR6 5 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £510,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 213%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR6 5 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 2015 (+33.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−18.3%). 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) | +17.5% | +14.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.7% | +3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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 WR6 5
The year-by-year sales count
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 16 WR6 5 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 74 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WR6 5
The local authority for WR6 5 is Malvern Hills, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £692 a month here against £1,474 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Malvern Hills
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£940 a month is £11,280 a year, which against the £510,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.2%. 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.
Reading the WR6 5 market
This is a thin market: 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the WR6 district median, WR6 5 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: WR6 5 (Martley)
Is WR6 5 (Martley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR6 5 (Martley)?
Are property prices falling in WR6 5 (Martley)?
Are WR6 5 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WR6's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 51 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR6 district, not just WR6 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Old Forge, Whitbourne, Worcestershire, Worcestershire
- Blueshot Drive, Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire
- Leigh, 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 WR6 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: WR prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WR area, 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
The spread across the WR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WR area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WR6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WR6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR6 6 | £455,000 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full WR6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WR6 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WR6 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WR6 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WR6 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WR6 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WR6 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WR6 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR6 5 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.