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Ombersley market report WR9, Droitwich
The standing WR9 (Ombersley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 17,960 registered sales in WR9 (Droitwich) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WR9 (Droitwich) sold for £325,500 in 2026, the median of 158 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £350,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,250 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 17,960 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district WR9 covering Droitwich, Ombersley, Wychbold sits in Droitwich. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WR9 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 homes really sell for
Across 158 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WR9 home went for £325,500. The mean is £350,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WR9
The last five years of sales put WR9 at roughly £3,250 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WR9 14% above the country at large.
A typical WR9 home, priced year by year (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 | £325,500 | £325,500 | 158 |
| 2025 | £304,000 | £311,270 | 478 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 454 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 460 |
| 2022 | £307,000 | £359,993 | 538 |
| 2021 | £300,500 | £380,472 | 654 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 554 |
| 2019 | £262,000 | £343,419 | 623 |
| 2018 | £268,000 | £357,249 | 591 |
| 2017 | £246,800 | £336,610 | 612 |
| 2016 | £229,500 | £321,073 | 533 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 542 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 619 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 513 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 404 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 405 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 359 |
| 2009 | £172,800 | £277,777 | 356 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 276 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 607 |
| 2006 | £180,500 | £313,325 | 709 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 612 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 741 |
| 2003 | £145,500 | £268,046 | 784 |
| 2002 | £128,500 | £241,772 | 835 |
| 2001 | £111,000 | £213,392 | 813 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 741 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 724 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 590 |
| 1997 | £68,500 | £140,480 | 618 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 566 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 491 |
In cash terms the typical WR9 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £325,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 150%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 14% 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 WR9 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 2001 (+16.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−6.6%). 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, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £435,000 against £153,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, WR9
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 | £435,000 | 69 | 7,817 |
| Semi-detached | £287,500 | 35 | 4,783 |
| Terraced | £239,000 | 34 | 3,240 |
| Flats | £153,500 | 20 | 2,120 |
What WR9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in WR9
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
WR9 recorded 351 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 730 sales a year before the financial crisis and 418 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.
What homes rent for around WR9
WR9 falls under Wychavon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £938 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £658 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,546, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wychavon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £325,500 median sold price, £938 a month is £11,256 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: WR9 (Ombersley)
How much did a house sell for in WR9 (Ombersley)?
Are property prices falling in WR9 (Ombersley)?
Is WR9 (Ombersley) a good place to buy a house?
Will WR9 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in WR9 today
Everything above is what homes in WR9 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 424 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% below the WR9 median sold price.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
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. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WR9 ranks 7 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 WR9, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WR9 0 | £460,000 | 25 |
| WR9 7 | £374,000 | 68 |
| WR9 8 | £263,300 | 52 |
| WR9 9 | £220,000 | 13 |
How WR9 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 (this report) | £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 | £275,000 | +4% |
| WR4 | £238,000 | +17% |
| WR1 | £170,000 | -8% |
Selling a home in WR9? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WR9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WR9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WR9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WR9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WR9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WR9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.