House prices in 'WR14 1', Malvern

This article reveals price per square metre data and various charts to help you understand current housing market in 'WR14 1' (Malvern) - statistics were last calculated on 01 November 2024.

Defining 'WR14 1'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "WR14 1", this is also called the postcode sector. There are no official postcode sector names so I've just labelled it WR14 1, Malvern. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in WR14 1 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in September 2024, 37, Upper Howsell Road, Malvern, WR14 1TL sold for £200,000. Given the internal area of 51 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £200,000 ÷ 51 sqm = £3,921.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on WR14 1 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for 'WR14 1' vs 'WR14'

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in WR14 1 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £2,900 to £3,000, £3,000 to £3,100, £3,100 to £3,200 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 320 sales that took place in WR14 1, Malvern in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in WR14 1, Malvern. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £3,530 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of WR14 1 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for WR14 1

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Malvern. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'WR14 1' as well as the 'WR14' postcode district.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'WR14 1' is £2,950.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 320 transactions in WR14 1, Malvern half were sold for between £2,520 and £3,530 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 320 for WR14 1, Malvern.

    • Property price map for Malvern

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'WR14 1' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Malvern
    House price map for Malvern

    Malvern house price forecasting

    I cannot tell what house prices will do in the future and don't believe anyone who says they can. However we can plot price trends, I have done this in the chart below for WR14 1 (Malvern) compared with the wider postcode district of WR14. You can extrapolate from this based on your own views on future interest rates, inflation and other factors.

    House price index for WR14 1

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'WR14 1' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in WR14 1 and is set to 100 in 2004. I'm comparing the trends for WR14 1,Malvern with the wider postcode district of WR14 What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire Malvern Hills local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for WR14 1
    WR14 1 sector WR14 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 2.7% 0.1% 3.0% 0.3%
    20 yr total 71.6% 1.7% 79.0% 6.0%
    10 yr per annum 3.7% 0.9% 4.1% 1.2%
    10 yr total 44.2% 9.5% 48.8% 13.0%
    5 yr per annum 3.2% -0.8% 4.3% 0.2%
    5 yr total 17.3% -4.0% 23.2% 0.9%
    1 yr per annum 1.1% -2.9% 2.8% -1.3%
    1 yr total 1.1% -2.9% 2.8% -1.3%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, WR14 1 sector have seen a 0.1% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 1.7% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, WR14 district have seen a 0.2% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 0.9% in real terms.

    Most recent WR14 1 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Worcester Road, Malvern, WR14 1E 57 sqm £1,893 25
    Cowleigh Road, Malvern, WR14 1Q 103 sqm £2,968 22
    Quest Hills Road, Malvern, WR14 1R 106 sqm £2,584 20
    Worcester Road, Malvern, WR14 1S 60 sqm £2,063 20
    Bracken Way, Malvern, WR14 1J 87 sqm £2,625 19
    Worcester Road, Malvern, WR14 1A 100 sqm £2,637 18
    Newtown Road, Malvern, WR14 1P 101 sqm £2,496 18
    Redland Road, Malvern, WR14 1L 80 sqm £2,801 16

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'WR14 1' compares to the other postcode sectors in WR14.

    Sector Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    WR14 4 Malvern £2,830 sqm £3,380 sqm £4,060 sqm 160
    WR14 3 Malvern £2,890 sqm £3,480 sqm £3,980 sqm 215
    WR14 2 Malvern £2,860 sqm £3,310 sqm £3,920 sqm 216
    WR14 1 Malvern £2,520 sqm £2,950 sqm £3,530 sqm 320
    WR13 5 Cradley £2,940 sqm £3,310 sqm £3,940 sqm 82

    Raw data

    Our analysis of WR14 1 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    37, Upper Howsell Rd, Malvern £200,000
    Sep-2024
    		 51 3,921
    Apartment 13 Scotland House, 2, Cowleigh Rd, Malvern £242,500
    Sep-2024
    		 84 2,886
    4, Regency Mews, Malvern £192,000
    Sep-2024
    		 70 2,742

    See the entire list of all sales in WR14 1 here.

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