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Martley market report WR6, Worcester
The standing WR6 (Martley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,056 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WR6 (Worcester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WR6 (Worcester) came in at £495,000, out of 61 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £511,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,470 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,056 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WR6 is a postcode district covering Martley, Clifton on Teme, Abberley in Worcester. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WR6 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 buyers actually paid in WR6
The 2026 median for WR6 is £495,000, taken from 61 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £511,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WR6
The last five years of sales put WR6 at roughly £3,470 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WR6 sits 74% above the national market.
The price of a typical WR6 home, 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 | £495,000 | £495,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 202 |
| 2024 | £413,500 | £439,635 | 136 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 110 |
| 2022 | £465,000 | £545,266 | 157 |
| 2021 | £423,200 | £535,826 | 238 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 139 |
| 2019 | £339,000 | £444,348 | 198 |
| 2018 | £348,000 | £463,891 | 151 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 174 |
| 2016 | £308,400 | £431,455 | 218 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 174 |
| 2014 | £273,500 | £388,008 | 150 |
| 2013 | £292,500 | £420,878 | 134 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 113 |
| 2011 | £298,800 | £451,073 | 134 |
| 2010 | £289,500 | £454,011 | 127 |
| 2009 | £270,000 | £434,027 | 111 |
| 2008 | £317,500 | £520,450 | 91 |
| 2007 | £320,000 | £542,809 | 204 |
| 2006 | £295,000 | £512,082 | 193 |
| 2005 | £279,000 | £496,508 | 144 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 175 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 155 |
| 2002 | £227,000 | £427,099 | 207 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 172 |
| 2000 | £146,200 | £286,918 | 164 |
| 1999 | £141,200 | £281,404 | 188 |
| 1998 | £123,800 | £249,899 | 170 |
| 1997 | £114,700 | £235,227 | 170 |
| 1996 | £87,500 | £184,534 | 163 |
| 1995 | £87,500 | £190,212 | 133 |
In cash terms the typical WR6 home went from £87,500 in 1995 to £495,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR6 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 1997 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.0%). 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, 65% of the typed total. In 2023, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £537,500 against £345,000 for a flat, a 56% premium.
Median by property type, WR6
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 | £549,500 | 38 | 3,265 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 16 | 1,170 |
| Terraced | £425,000 | 5 | 509 |
| Flats | £345,000 (2023) | – | 67 |
What WR6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +12.5% | +9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.8% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 139 WR6 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 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 133 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around WR6
For renting purposes WR6 sits in Malvern Hills. The ONS average private rent there is £940 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £495,000 median sold price, £940 a month is £11,280 a year, a gross yield of 2.3%: 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.
Reading the WR6 market
This is a thin market: 139 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. Detached homes made up 59% of last year's sales, an unusually house-heavy mix that keeps the median well above what a flat or terrace here goes for. 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. WR6 sits 2 of 15 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Common questions on WR6 (Martley)
Are property prices falling in WR6 (Martley)?
Is WR6 (Martley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WR6 (Martley)?
Are WR6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
WR6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WR6 sold for. The live side of the market holds 39 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the WR6 median sold price.
Set against 139 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 39 homes on the market here are roughly 3 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
3% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 WR6 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.
Listed against sold: the WR6 mix
Detached homes are 75% of what is listed in WR6 but 63% of what sold over 2024 and 2025: the market is being offered more of them than it has been taking, which tends to give a buyer of one room to talk.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 75% | 63% |
| Semi-detached | 25% | 27% |
| Terraced | 0% | 10% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (3 of them here).
When homes in WR6 change hands
March is when WR6 changes hands most (11.5% of the 843 sales dated 2021 to 2025); May is the quiet end at 6.0%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 55 | 6.5% |
| February | 60 | 7.1% |
| March | 97 | 11.5% |
| April | 57 | 6.8% |
| May | 51 | 6.0% |
| June | 96 | 11.4% |
| July | 62 | 7.4% |
| August | 80 | 9.5% |
| September | 96 | 11.4% |
| October | 53 | 6.3% |
| November | 70 | 8.3% |
| December | 66 | 7.8% |
Moving up a bedroom in WR: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WR area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | £285,000 | £310,000 (+9%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £447,500 (+26%) | £600,000 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £217,000 | £249,995 (+15%) | £280,000 (+12%) | £335,000 (+20%) | £427,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £172,250 | £210,000 (+22%) | £235,000 (+12%) | £283,500 (+21%) | £335,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £107,750 | £155,000 (+44%) | £240,000 (+55%) | — | £433,750 |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WR6 ranks 4 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 WR6, 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.
How WR6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WR7 | £540,000 | +20% |
| WR6 (this report) | £495,000 | +17% |
| WR12 | £435,000 | -8% |
| WR8 | £395,000 | +8% |
| WR13 | £362,500 | -5% |
| WR10 | £332,500 | +6% |
| WR9 | £325,000 | +8% |
| WR14 | £320,000 | +14% |
| WR3 | £302,500 | +18% |
| WR11 | £297,000 | +6% |
| WR2 | £294,000 | +11% |
| WR15 | £288,000 | -10% |
| WR5 | £278,000 | +5% |
| WR4 | £240,000 | +18% |
| WR1 | £170,500 | -8% |
Thinking of selling in WR6? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR6'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.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WR6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WR6 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.