The average Worcester home was worth £251,221 in July 2026, £298 more than a year earlier. Malvern Hills rose 5.5% over the same year. City flats fell 2.8%.
House price growth in Worcester has effectively stopped.
The average home in the city was worth £251,221 in July 2026, according to the latest UK House Price Index from HM Land Registry. A year earlier it was £250,923.
That is a rise of £298 over twelve months, or 0.1%.
Across England as a whole prices rose 1.1% in the same year. Across Worcestershire they rose 1.0%. In Malvern Hills, which begins a few miles west of the city, they rose 5.5%.
One caution before the numbers. The index reports a mean average, not a median. It is pulled up by the largest sales and it covers completed transactions, so it describes deals agreed several months before they appear. It is the most reliable measure we have of what homes actually sold for, but it is not a valuation of any particular house.
Worcestershire, ranked
Worcester is the second cheapest of the county’s six districts, and the gap to its neighbours is wide. A home in Malvern Hills cost £99,551 more than one in the city in July. A home in Wychavon, the district that wraps around Worcester to the east and south, cost £71,402 more.
Set against the year, the ranking changes shape:
| District | Average price | Change on July 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Malvern Hills | £350,772 | +5.5% |
| Bromsgrove | £335,607 | +2.3% |
| Wychavon | £322,623 | +1.1% |
| Worcester city | £251,221 | +0.1% |
| Redditch | £245,573 | -1.9% |
| Wyre Forest | £230,984 | -0.6% |
| Worcestershire | £287,268 | +1.0% |
| England | £293,479 | +1.1% |
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index, July 2026.
Two districts are going backwards. Worcester is not falling, but of the four still rising it is rising by the least, by a distance.
What is moving, and what is not
The city-wide figure hides four different markets.
| Type | Worcester | Change on the year | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £422,002 | -0.1% | £474,626 |
| Semi-detached | £272,980 | +1.1% | £292,024 |
| Terraced | £230,776 | +0.8% | £247,081 |
| Flat or maisonette | £135,999 | -2.8% | £217,362 |
Three things stand out.
- Flats are the drag. A Worcester flat is worth £81,363 less than the England average for a flat, and the figure has fallen 2.8% in a year. That fall is not unique to the city: English flats fell 3.5% over the same period.
- Detached homes have stalled. They are down 0.1% here while English detached homes rose 1.4%.
- Worcester lags on every single type. Semis, terraces, detached and flats all rose more slowly here than nationally, or fell further.
A first-time buyer in the city paid an average of £223,445. The England average for a first-time buyer was £245,515, and in Malvern Hills it was £270,229. On that measure Worcester remains one of the more reachable places in the county to buy a first home.
A figure we published in August has changed
The UK House Price Index is revised as more completed sales are recorded, and the revision is not always small.
When we set out the Worcester market in August, the most recent month available was May 2026, and it was published as £251,703, up 2.1% on the year. In the July release, that same May figure now reads £251,153, up 1.9%.
Nothing was wrong at the time. It is simply how the index works, and it is worth knowing before anyone builds an argument on a single month. The direction of travel matters more than any one number, and the direction here is flat.
What it means for you
If you are selling. The city-wide average has moved £298 in a year. Asking prices set against 2021 or 2022 growth are unlikely to be met. The type of home you own matters more than the city average: a semi has done better this year than a detached house or a flat.
If you are buying. Worcester is £42,258 below the England average and £36,047 below the county average. Flats in particular are cheaper here than almost anywhere comparable, though that discount reflects a market that has been falling for a year.
If you are watching supply. How many homes get built, and where, is decided through the planning system rather than the market. Two schemes on the city’s south-eastern edge are already being tested with the council, as we reported in our story on the Battenhall Farm screening opinions.
Our standing page on Worcester house prices has the neighbourhood breakdown, the five-year picture and the comparison with England, and we update it as new releases land.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Worcester, July 2026, HM Land Registry, for the city figures, the property type splits and the first-time buyer average.
- UK House Price Index open data for Worcestershire, England, Malvern Hills, Wychavon, Bromsgrove, Redditch and Wyre Forest, all July 2026.
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