That is the middle of 261 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.4 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
261 homes sold in three years: 47 detached houses, 86 semi-detached houses, 89 terraced houses and 39 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£421K
median sale · 47 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£370K–£500K
Last 12 months
£483K13 sold
Semi-detached houses£316K
median sale · 86 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£285K–£340K
Last 12 months
£308K20 sold
Terraced houses£250K
median sale · 89 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£280K
Last 12 months
£265K24 sold
Flats and maisonettes£140K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£90K–£170K
Last 12 months
£145K9 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses18%
Semi-detached houses33%
Terraced houses34%
Flats and maisonettes15%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Alcester’s homes sold for between £215K and £350K
One sale in ten was under £141K and one in ten over £421K. 37% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £285,000, sits in the £250–300K band
261 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.4 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £54,000 in 1995 to £289,500 in the last 12 months (£232,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
66 sales in the last 12 months, against 185 in 2007, the busiest year, and 60 in 2009. Sales fell by 68% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 5%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 73% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Alcester costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Alcester, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£92K
£150K
£250K
£239K
£385K
£400K
£483K
Semi-detached houses
£60K
£88K
£189K
£190K
£214K
£265K
£308K
Terraced houses
£53K
£71K
£136K
£155K
£173K
£217K
£265K
Flats and maisonettes
£33K
£53K
£95K
£99K
£119K
£120K
£145K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 21% in 2015
238 new homes have been sold in Alcester since 1995; the share peaked at 21% in 2015.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
17% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.3% sold leasehold in Alcester. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Throckmorton Road is Alcester’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
19 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 5 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Throckmorton Road
B49
12
£352,500
Mixed
2
Seymour Road
B49
12
£199,750
Mixed
3
Kinwarton Road
B49
12
£111,625
Mostly flats
4
Gas House Lane
B49
11
£211,000
Mixed
5
Newport Drive
B49
10
£345,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Moorfield Road
B49
9
£325,000
Mixed
7
Bleachfield Street
B49
8
£270,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Hertford Road
B49
8
£248,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
School Road
B49
8
£131,750
Mostly flats
10
Henley Street
B49
7
£325,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Meadow Road
B49
7
£290,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Ropewalk
B49
6
£415,000
Mixed
13
Evesham Street
B49
6
£300,000
Mixed
14
Fields Park Drive
B49
6
£297,500
Mixed
15
Station Road
B49
6
£290,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Ropewalk: £415,000
Alcester median£285K
Ropewalk£415K
Roman Way£355K
Throckmorton Road£353K
Newport Drive£345K
Henley Street£325K
Cheapest streets
Kinwarton Road: £111,625
Alcester median£285K
Kinwarton Road£112K
School Road£132K
Birch Abbey£198K
Seymour Road£200K
Gas House Lane£211K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Warwickshire
Alcester is the 23rd most expensive of 34 towns in Warwickshire
Alcester is in the middle of Warwickshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Alcester
What is the average house price in Alcester?
The median home in Alcester sold for £285,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 261 standard sales (£289,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £421,000, semi-detached houses £316,250, terraced houses £250,000 and flats and maisonettes £140,000.
Are house prices going up in Alcester?
The median was £284,025 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£280,000), and £289,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Alcester each year?
66 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 108 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Alcester?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Ropewalk (B49, £415,000), Roman Way (B49, £355,000) and Throckmorton Road (B49, £352,500).
Is Alcester expensive for Warwickshire?
Alcester is the 23rd most expensive of 34 towns of 2,500 or more in Warwickshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.