Checketts Lane, Worcester house prices are built from 127 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,000. Across the 13 years from 2009 to 2022 the median moved +103.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +43.2%.
Median price paid
£130,000
Change in cash, 2009–2022
+103.1%
Change in real terms
+43.2%
Median per m²
£2,039
HM Land Registry127 sales21 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Checketts Lane, Worcester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Checketts Lane, Worcester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2022. 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 | £48,806 | £108,372 |
| 2000s | 5 | £127,500 | £232,267 |
| 2010s | 1 | £125,000 | £176,250 |
| 2020s | 1 | £259,000 | £264,630 |
The highest yearly median on record for Checketts Lane, Worcester is £259,000 in 2022; the lowest is £48,806 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £48,806 to £259,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £105,871, so the real change over the whole record is +183.4% — about +4.09% 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: +103.1% in cash against +43.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 6 Weavers Court | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £161,500 | £161,500 |
| Apartment 11 Weavers Court | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £157,500 | £157,500 |
| Apartment 3 Weavers Court | 28 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £146,109 |
| 22 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 55 | 25 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £294,000 | £300,391 |
| 18 | 17 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 33 | 21 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 8 | 27 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 39 | 29 Aug 2023 | Detached | £437,500 | £472,701 |
| 5 | 17 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £435,000 | £503,985 |
| 16 | 14 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £263,000 | £304,708 |
| 40 | 27 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| Apartment 15 Weavers Court | 31 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £194,643 |
| 27 | 4 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 50 | 31 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £378,000 | £437,946 |
| 63 | 2 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| 20 | 8 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £232,500 | £293,750 |
| 5 | 19 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £353,763 |
| 8 | 28 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 28 | 25 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £372,774 |
| 25 | 23 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £246,550 |
| Apartment 10 Weavers Court | 17 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £127,000 | £169,253 |
| Apartment 3 Weavers Court | 1 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £108,000 | £143,932 |
| 50 | 1 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| 37 | 22 Aug 2017 | Detached | £212,000 | £288,533 |
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 Checketts Lane, Worcester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 6 WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane | £136,500 (2005) | £161,500 (2026) | +0.8% | -2.0% |
| APARTMENT 11 WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane | £140,000 (2005) | £157,500 (2026) | +0.6% | -2.3% |
| APARTMENT 3 WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane | £115,000 (2005) | £143,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 8 Checketts Lane | £190,000 (2020) | £275,000 (2023) | +13.1% | +6.5% |
| 39 Checketts Lane | £191,650 (2007) | £437,500 (2023) | +5.3% | +2.2% |
| 5 Checketts Lane | £153,000 (2008) | £435,000 (2022) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| APARTMENT 15 WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane | £149,950 (2005) | £168,000 (2022) | +0.7% | -2.0% |
| 50 Checketts Lane | £180,000 (2017) | £378,000 (2022) | +16.0% | +12.3% |
| 63 Checketts Lane | £83,000 (2002) | £200,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| 20 Checketts Lane | £160,000 (2016) | £232,500 (2021) | +7.8% | +5.6% |
| 28 Checketts Lane | £55,950 (1997) | £285,000 (2019) | +7.7% | +5.3% |
| 25 Checketts Lane | £28,500 (1996) | £185,000 (2018) | +8.9% | +6.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Checketts Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 51 | 40.2% | £120,000 | £59,950 – £168,000 |
| Semi-detached | 43 | 33.9% | £179,950 | £28,500 – £435,000 |
| Detached | 18 | 14.2% | £167,000 | £52,500 – £437,500 |
| Terraced | 15 | 11.8% | £128,500 | £25,000 – £200,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Checketts Lane, Worcester
51 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76 freehold — 40.2% 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 £120,000 and the median freehold sale £157,500 — a gap of +31.3%. 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 | 51 | 40.2% | £120,000 |
| Freehold | 76 | 59.8% | £157,500 |
| New build | 26 | 20.5% | £122,500 |
| Existing home | 101 | 79.5% | £142,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -13.7%. 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 10 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 Checketts Lane, Worcester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Worcester, 44.7% of 54,225 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 137 | 0.3% |
| B | 5,509 | 10.2% |
| C | 18,576 | 34.3% |
| D | 20,006 | 36.9% |
| E | 7,889 | 14.5% |
| F | 1,578 | 2.9% |
| G | 530 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Worcester at £969 a month as of Jun 2026 — £706 for a one-bedroom home and £1,078 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £130,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.94% 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 WR3, 141 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 31 violent, 7 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 103,872 residents the 2021 census counted in Worcester, that is 1.36 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 Checketts Lane, Worcester
The 2021 census counted 103,872 residents in Worcester across 44,724 households. 62.5% of those households own their home and 37.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a WR3 postcode: 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop Perowne CofE College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,155 |
| Tudor Grange Academy Worcester | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,059 |
| Northwick Manor Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 573 |
| North Worcester Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 403 |
| St Barnabas CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 380 |
| Tudor Grange Primary Academy Perdiswell | Primary | Academy converter | 338 |
| Claines CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 204 |
| Hindlip CofE First School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 92 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Worcester Foregate Street Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Worcester Shrub Hill Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Droitwich Spa Rail Station | Rail | 6.8 km |
| Worcestershire Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How Checketts Lane, Worcester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Checketts Lane, Worcester sits below that national figure — -17.5%.
Within Worcester the street ranks 1544 of 2010 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-18.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,039 per square metre, across 21 of the 127 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 £25,000 to £437,500. 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.
Checketts Lane, Worcester sits in Worcester, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Worcester at 6.9 times median local earnings of £37,459 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
- Ombersley Road£186,500 median
- Droitwich Road£160,000 median
- Astwood Road£130,000 median
- Northwick Road£185,000 median
- Lansdowne Road£136,750 median
- Mayfield Road£103,000 median
- Green Lane£164,000 median
- Bilford Road£180,500 median
- Gillam Street£125,000 median
- Station Road£248,500 median
- Northwick Avenue£139,700 median
- Belmont Street£121,500 median
- Rainbow Hill£105,000 median
- Eastbank Drive£220,800 median
- St Annes Road£161,000 median
- Addison Road£159,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 63 Checketts Lane5 sales
- 25 Checketts Lane5 sales
- 69 Checketts Lane5 sales
- APARTMENT 3, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane4 sales
- 28 Checketts Lane4 sales
- 37 Checketts Lane4 sales
- APARTMENT 12A, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane4 sales
- APARTMENT 4, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane4 sales
- 34 Checketts Lane4 sales
- APARTMENT 11, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane3 sales
- 39 Checketts Lane3 sales
- 5 Checketts Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 1, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 2, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane3 sales
- 14 Checketts Lane3 sales
- FLAT 6, 75 Checketts Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 12, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane3 sales
- 3 Checketts Lane3 sales
- FLAT 1, 75 Checketts Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 6, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane2 sales
- 8 Checketts Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 15, WEAVERS COURT Checketts Lane2 sales
- 50 Checketts Lane2 sales
- 20 Checketts Lane2 sales
Back to Worcester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Checketts Lane, Worcester?
The median price paid in Checketts Lane, Worcester across every sale on the register is £130,000. 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 Checketts Lane, Worcester?
127 sales are on record for Checketts Lane, Worcester, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Checketts Lane, Worcester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +103.1% between 2009 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +43.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Checketts Lane, Worcester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £259,000, set in 2022. 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 Checketts Lane, Worcester?
£2,039 per square metre, from the 21 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 29 May 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, “Checketts Lane, 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.