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Ombersley market report WR9 8, Droitwich
The standing WR9 8 (Ombersley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,526 HM Land Registry entries for WR9 8 (Droitwich), 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WR9 8 (Droitwich) home changed hands for £263,300 in 2026 (median of 52 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £285,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,060 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,526 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WR9 8 is a single group of streets within WR9 (Droitwich), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WR9 8 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 WR9 8 homes really sell for
In the WR9 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £263,300, from 52 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £285,700, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WR9 8
Per square metre, WR9 8 homes have averaged around £3,060 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WR9 8 trades 8% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WR9 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £263,300 | £263,300 | 52 |
| 2025 | £276,000 | £282,600 | 161 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 153 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 153 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 159 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 167 |
| 2020 | £233,500 | £302,971 | 138 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 159 |
| 2018 | £201,000 | £267,937 | 151 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 187 |
| 2016 | £194,500 | £272,107 | 202 |
| 2015 | £195,000 | £275,535 | 193 |
| 2014 | £179,300 | £254,368 | 244 |
| 2013 | £183,500 | £264,038 | 217 |
| 2012 | £167,000 | £245,803 | 166 |
| 2011 | £162,000 | £244,558 | 153 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 139 |
| 2009 | £164,000 | £263,631 | 135 |
| 2008 | £167,000 | £273,748 | 103 |
| 2007 | £169,700 | £287,858 | 236 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 308 |
| 2005 | £157,200 | £279,753 | 208 |
| 2004 | £149,000 | £270,613 | 267 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 320 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 333 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 316 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 283 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 317 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 231 |
| 1997 | £68,500 | £140,480 | 255 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 208 |
| 1995 | £61,800 | £134,344 | 212 |
In cash terms the typical WR9 8 home went from £61,800 in 1995 to £263,300 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 96%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WR9 8 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 (+18.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−4.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.6% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 52 sales completed in WR9 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 284 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 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.
The shape of the WR9 8 market
This is a thin market: 52 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. Against the WR9 district median, WR9 8 sits 19% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around WR9 8
WR9 8 falls under Wychavon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £938 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £658 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,546 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wychavon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £263,300 median purchase price, a rent of £938 a month (£11,256 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: WR9 8 (Ombersley)
How much did a house sell for in WR9 8 (Ombersley)?
Are property prices falling in WR9 8 (Ombersley)?
Is WR9 8 (Ombersley) a good place to buy a house?
Are WR9 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in WR9 today
The live side of the market holds 424 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WR9 district, not just WR9 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% 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.
- Nuffield Drive, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire
- Westbury Court, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire
- The Scotlands, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WR9 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.
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WR9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WR9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR9 0 | £460,000 | 25 |
| WR9 7 | £374,000 | 68 |
| WR9 9 | £220,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full WR9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WR9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WR9 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WR9 8'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.
Estate agents working WR9 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WR9 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WR9 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WR9 8 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.