Lower Road, Malvern house prices are built from 83 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 5 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £170,500. Across the 10 years from 1997 to 2007 the median moved +248.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +185.9%.
Median price paid
£170,500
Change in cash, 1997–2007
+248.6%
Change in real terms
+185.9%
Median per m²
£1,216
HM Land Registry83 sales24 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Lower Road, Malvern prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Road, Malvern house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2007. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £55,000 | £122,126 |
| 2000s | 3 | £191,750 | £349,312 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Road, Malvern is £205,000 in 2006; the lowest is £55,000 in 1997. Across the full 11-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £191,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,617, so the real change over the whole record is +185.9% — about +11.08% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +248.6% in cash against +185.9% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 5 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 11 | 15 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £247,500 | £252,880 |
| 25 | 17 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 20 | 19 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £405,000 | £437,586 |
| 68 | 7 Dec 2023 | Detached | £725,000 | £783,333 |
| 29 | 26 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £291,724 |
| 44 | 3 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| 29 | 2 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £284,848 |
| Nibley, 10 | 7 Sep 2020 | Detached | £394,000 | £510,138 |
| 5 | 17 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £284,848 |
| 26 | 10 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| 13 | 4 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £240,000 | £319,849 |
| 21 | 12 Feb 2018 | Detached | £385,000 | £513,091 |
| 31a | 7 Oct 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £349,010 |
| 26 | 9 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £185,000 | £258,267 |
| 28 | 17 Dec 2015 | Detached | £192,500 | £271,425 |
| 12 | 1 Dec 2015 | Terraced | £249,500 | £351,795 |
| 17 | 5 Aug 2015 | Semi-detached | £184,000 | £259,440 |
| 29 | 1 May 2015 | Semi-detached | £170,500 | £240,405 |
| 25 | 23 May 2014 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £251,017 |
| 17 | 14 Mar 2014 | Semi-detached | £177,000 | £253,886 |
| 23 | 7 Nov 2012 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £238,983 |
| 10 | 10 Apr 2012 | Detached | £270,000 | £403,284 |
| 9 | 23 Mar 2012 | Terraced | £152,000 | £227,034 |
| 11 | 26 Oct 2011 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £291,196 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Lower Road, Malvern values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Lower Road | £58,000 (1996) | £320,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 11 Lower Road | £80,000 (2000) | £247,500 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 25 Lower Road | £97,000 (2001) | £290,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 20 Lower Road | £75,000 (2001) | £405,000 (2023) | +8.0% | +5.1% |
| 68 Lower Road | £187,500 (1998) | £725,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 29 Lower Road | £174,500 (2007) | £270,000 (2023) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 44 Lower Road | £45,000 (1999) | £310,000 (2023) | +8.4% | +5.5% |
| 5 Lower Road | £157,000 (2004) | £220,000 (2020) | +2.1% | -0.1% |
| 26 Lower Road | £55,000 (1995) | £280,000 (2019) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 21 Lower Road | £145,000 (2002) | £385,000 (2018) | +6.3% | +3.9% |
| 28 Lower Road | £74,000 (1999) | £192,500 (2015) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 12 Lower Road | £59,950 (2000) | £249,500 (2015) | +10.0% | +7.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Road, Malvern is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 41 | 49.4% | £170,000 | £45,000 – £310,000 |
| Detached | 20 | 24.1% | £215,000 | £58,000 – £725,000 |
| Terraced | 18 | 21.7% | £120,500 | £50,000 – £405,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 4.8% | £36,000 | £27,000 – £250,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Road, Malvern
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 80 freehold — 3.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £36,000 and the median freehold sale £174,225 — a gap of +384.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 3 | 3.6% | £36,000 |
| Freehold | 80 | 96.4% | £174,225 |
A further 3 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Lower Road, Malvern
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Herefordshire, County of, 37.9% of 94,137 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 10.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 892 | 0.9% |
| B | 9,289 | 9.9% |
| C | 25,501 | 27.1% |
| D | 31,524 | 33.5% |
| E | 16,959 | 18.0% |
| F | 7,186 | 7.6% |
| G | 2,786 | 3.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Herefordshire, County of at £809 a month as of Jun 2026 — £588 for a one-bedroom home and £941 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £170,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.69% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WR14, 104 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 44 violent, 4 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 14 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times quieter.
Against the 187,034 residents the 2021 census counted in Herefordshire, County of, that is 0.56 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Lower Road, Malvern
The 2021 census counted 187,034 residents in Herefordshire, County of across 82,827 households. 67.5% of those households own their home and 32.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a WR14 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chase | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,449 |
| Dyson Perrins CofE Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 592 |
| Somers Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 582 |
| Great Malvern Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 325 |
| Malvern Parish CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Northleigh CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 202 |
| St Matthias Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 162 |
| Malvern Wyche CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 133 |
| Grove Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 103 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 99 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Great Malvern Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Malvern Link Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Colwall Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Ledbury Rail Station | Rail | 10.5 km |
Section 09
How Lower Road, Malvern compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Road, Malvern sits above that national figure — +8.3%.
Within Malvern the street ranks 434 of 620 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £188,000 (-9.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,216 per square metre, across 24 of the 83 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £27,000 to £725,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Lower Road, Malvern sits in Herefordshire, County of, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Herefordshire, County of at 8.8 times median local earnings of £33,685 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Worcester Road£120,000 median
- West Malvern Road£202,250 median
- Wells Road£239,500 median
- Pickersleigh Road£192,000 median
- Graham Road£178,500 median
- Abbey Road£150,000 median
- St Andrews Road£145,000 median
- Leigh Sinton Road£179,950 median
- Priory Road£135,000 median
- Cowleigh Road£170,000 median
- Holywell Road£153,500 median
- Newtown Road£144,500 median
- Victoria Road£210,000 median
- Belmont Road£134,500 median
- Quest Hills Road£162,000 median
- Court Road£197,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 11 Lower Road5 sales
- 68 Lower Road5 sales
- 13 Lower Road4 sales
- 29 Lower Road4 sales
- 17 Lower Road4 sales
- 10 Lower Road4 sales
- 14 Lower Road4 sales
- 25 Lower Road3 sales
- 5 Lower Road3 sales
- 26 Lower Road3 sales
- 20 Lower Road2 sales
- 44 Lower Road2 sales
- 21 Lower Road2 sales
- 28 Lower Road2 sales
- 12 Lower Road2 sales
- 23 Lower Road2 sales
- 9 Lower Road2 sales
- 30 Lower Road2 sales
- 66 Lower Road2 sales
- 36 Lower Road2 sales
- 18 Lower Road2 sales
- 4 Lower Road2 sales
- 3 Lower Road2 sales
- 19 Lower Road2 sales
Back to Malvern house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Road, Malvern?
The median price paid in Lower Road, Malvern across every sale on the register is £170,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Lower Road, Malvern?
83 sales are on record for Lower Road, Malvern, the most recent completing on 5 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Road, Malvern house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +248.6% between 1997 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +185.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Road, Malvern house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £205,000, set in 2006. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Lower Road, Malvern?
£1,216 per square metre, from the 24 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 5 Jan 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Lower Road, Malvern house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.