Battenhall Road, Worcester house prices are built from 250 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 10 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £238,500. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +44.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.7%.
Median price paid
£238,500
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+44.2%
Change in real terms
+2.7%
Median per m²
£2,075
HM Land Registry250 sales65 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Battenhall Road, Worcester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Battenhall Road, Worcester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 5 | £80,250 | £178,193 |
| 2000s | 9 | £232,000 | £422,636 |
| 2010s | 5 | £376,250 | £530,513 |
| 2020s | 6 | £490,000 | £500,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for Battenhall Road, Worcester is £562,500 in 2025; the lowest is £53,498 in 1999. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £80,250 to £562,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £178,193, so the real change over the whole record is +222.5% — about +3.98% 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: +44.2% in cash against +2.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £860,000 | £860,000 |
| 46 | 31 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £640,000 | £640,000 |
| 156 | 24 Mar 2026 | Detached | £562,500 | £562,500 |
| 152 | 12 Dec 2025 | Detached | £780,000 | £796,957 |
| 138 | 10 Dec 2025 | Detached | £793,359 | £810,606 |
| 172 | 14 Nov 2025 | Detached | £620,000 | £633,478 |
| 129 | 31 Oct 2025 | Detached | £444,000 | £453,652 |
| 103 | 15 Aug 2025 | Detached | £575,000 | £587,500 |
| 131 | 4 Jun 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 136 | 25 Mar 2025 | Detached | £408,000 | £416,870 |
| The Stumps, 171 | 14 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| Flat 2 16 | 6 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £157,500 | £165,728 |
| 47 | 15 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £1,000,000 | £1,052,239 |
| 120 | 14 Nov 2024 | Detached | £457,000 | £480,873 |
| 70 | 21 Oct 2024 | Detached | £492,500 | £518,228 |
| 116 | 17 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| Flat 3 18 | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 143 | 22 Mar 2024 | Detached | £490,000 | £515,597 |
| 8a | 21 Mar 2024 | Detached | £625,000 | £657,649 |
| 170 | 16 Feb 2024 | Detached | £530,000 | £557,687 |
| 7 Battenhall Lodge, 60 | 16 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £415,000 | £448,391 |
| 162 | 3 Oct 2023 | Detached | £635,000 | £686,092 |
| 141 | 29 Sep 2023 | Detached | £495,000 | £534,828 |
| 159 | 19 Jul 2023 | Detached | £380,000 | £410,575 |
| 108 | 12 Jul 2023 | Detached | £430,000 | £464,598 |
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 Battenhall Road, Worcester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 Battenhall Road | £420,000 (2014) | £860,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.0% |
| 46 Battenhall Road | £175,000 (2002) | £640,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
| 152 Battenhall Road | £365,000 (2019) | £780,000 (2025) | +13.5% | +8.9% |
| 138 Battenhall Road | £165,000 (1998) | £793,359 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 172 Battenhall Road | £295,000 (2003) | £620,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
| 103 Battenhall Road | £310,000 (2006) | £575,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| 131 Battenhall Road | £92,000 (1995) | £550,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| FLAT 2 16 Battenhall Road | £40,000 (1997) | £157,500 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 47 Battenhall Road | £149,950 (1996) | £1,000,000 (2024) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 116 Battenhall Road | £94,500 (1997) | £400,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 3 18 Battenhall Road | £138,000 (2006) | £175,000 (2024) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| 7 BATTENHALL LODGE, 60 Battenhall Road | £285,000 (2003) | £415,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Battenhall Road, Worcester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 104 | 41.6% | £315,000 | £53,435 – £975,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 82 | 32.8% | £139,000 | £35,000 – £415,000 |
| Semi-detached | 54 | 21.6% | £264,000 | £45,000 – £960,000 |
| Terraced | 10 | 4.0% | £149,950 | £38,000 – £1,000,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Battenhall Road, Worcester
86 of the sales on record are leasehold and 164 freehold — 34.4% 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 £138,000 and the median freehold sale £315,000 — a gap of +128.3%. 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 | 86 | 34.4% | £138,000 |
| Freehold | 164 | 65.6% | £315,000 |
| New build | 12 | 4.8% | £195,475 |
| Existing home | 238 | 95.2% | £246,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -20.8%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 9 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 Battenhall Road, Worcester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Malvern Hills, 40.4% of 39,962 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 9.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 839 | 2.1% |
| B | 5,813 | 14.5% |
| C | 9,487 | 23.7% |
| D | 12,588 | 31.5% |
| E | 7,433 | 18.6% |
| F | 2,891 | 7.2% |
| G | 911 | 2.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Malvern Hills at £940 a month as of Jun 2026 — £692 for a one-bedroom home and £1,077 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £238,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.73% 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 WR5, 93 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 30 violent, 2 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 23 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times quieter.
Against the 79,486 residents the 2021 census counted in Malvern Hills, that is 1.17 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 Battenhall Road, Worcester
The 2021 census counted 79,486 residents in Malvern Hills across 34,889 households. 72.3% of those households own their home and 27.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a WR5 postcode: 8 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nunnery Wood High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,488 |
| Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,036 |
| Cherry Orchard Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 565 |
| Perry Wood Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 398 |
| Red Hill CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 394 |
| Nunnery Wood Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 390 |
| Kempsey Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 386 |
| Stanley Road Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 308 |
| Whittington CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 199 |
| Norton Juxta Kempsey CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 192 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Worcester Shrub Hill Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Worcester Foregate Street Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Worcestershire Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Malvern Link Rail Station | Rail | 9.7 km |
Section 09
How Battenhall Road, Worcester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Battenhall Road, Worcester sits above that national figure — +51.4%.
Within Worcester the street ranks 601 of 2010 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £160,000 (+49.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,075 per square metre, across 65 of the 250 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 £35,000 to £1,000,000. 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.
Battenhall Road, Worcester sits in Malvern Hills, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Malvern Hills at 9.4 times median local earnings of £34,570 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
- Bath Road£160,750 median
- Wylds Lane£113,000 median
- London Road£118,000 median
- Mandalay Drive£137,500 median
- Woolhope Road£177,500 median
- Byfield Rise£70,000 median
- Grasshopper Avenue£137,250 median
- Newtown Road£147,000 median
- Basin Road£187,995 median
- Bicton Avenue£96,000 median
- St Dunstans Crescent£210,000 median
- Medway Road£125,000 median
- Crossley Road£195,000 median
- Victoria Avenue£164,750 median
- Peninsula Road£174,500 median
- Cavendish Street£145,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, 16 Battenhall Road5 sales
- 3, BATTENHALL LODGE, 60 Battenhall Road5 sales
- FLAT 4, 16 Battenhall Road5 sales
- 46 Battenhall Road4 sales
- 131 Battenhall Road4 sales
- 47 Battenhall Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 26 Battenhall Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 39 Battenhall Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 30 Battenhall Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 26 Battenhall Road4 sales
- 107 Battenhall Road4 sales
- 138 Battenhall Road3 sales
- 172 Battenhall Road3 sales
- 103 Battenhall Road3 sales
- 7, BATTENHALL LODGE, 60 Battenhall Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 39 Battenhall Road3 sales
- 11, BATTENHALL LODGE, 60 Battenhall Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, 22 Battenhall Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 22 Battenhall Road3 sales
- 53 Battenhall Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, 22 Battenhall Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, 30 Battenhall Road3 sales
- 110 Battenhall Road3 sales
- 4 Battenhall Road3 sales
Back to Worcester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Battenhall Road, Worcester?
The median price paid in Battenhall Road, Worcester across every sale on the register is £238,500. 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 Battenhall Road, Worcester?
250 sales are on record for Battenhall Road, Worcester, the most recent completing on 10 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Battenhall Road, Worcester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +44.2% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Battenhall Road, Worcester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £562,500, set in 2025. 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 Battenhall Road, Worcester?
£2,075 per square metre, from the 65 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 10 Jun 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, “Battenhall Road, Worcester 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.