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Norfolk house prices in the first half of 2026
Norfolk prices hardly moved in the first half of 2026: £269,700 in January and £271,712 in June. The annual rate reached 3.6% only because spring 2025 was weak.
Norfolk house prices hardly moved in the first half of 2026. The county average was £269,700 in January and £271,712 in June on the UK House Price Index, a rise of about £2,000. The annual growth rate climbed to 3.6% only because the spring of 2025, after the stamp duty change, was weak. Fewer homes sold than in the first half of 2025.
This is the follow-up to our Q1 2026 Norfolk house-price report and covers January to June 2026. County, district and regional figures come from the UK House Price Index release for June 2026, published on 19 August. Those months are provisional, and the July release has since revised them; the changes are set out below. The town table, promised in July, uses HM Land Registry’s Price Paid records of standard sales, on the same figures as each town guide.
County prices: flat, against a weak base
January was £269,700, up 0.1% on a year earlier. February was £269,024 (up 0.1%) and March £268,395 (down 0.1%). Then the annual rate rose: £269,862 in April (up 2.5%), £271,831 in May (up 3.0%) and £271,712 in June (up 3.6%).
The prices did not change much. The months they were compared with did. The county average fell to £263,272 in April 2025 and £262,164 in June 2025, after buyers rushed to complete before stamp duty rose on 1 April 2025. A flat price in 2026 reads as growth against those months. Every district and property type for June is on our Norfolk house prices 2026 guide.
England averaged £293,262 in June 2026, up 1.8% on a year earlier, and the East of England £338,707, up 1.1%. Norfolk was about £21,500 below England and £67,000 below the region. In the Q1 report Norfolk was growing more slowly than both; in June it was growing faster, mostly because of last spring’s base. The size of the discount barely changed.
Revisions in the July release
The July 2026 release, published on 16 September, revised the first half. June is now £269,869, up 2.9% rather than 3.6%. January is now £269,152 (down 0.1%), February £269,218, March £268,718, April £269,303 (up 2.3%) and May £271,193 (up 2.8%). The shape is the same: flat prices and a jump in the annual rate from April.
July itself came in at £269,185, up 0.7%, as the weak months of 2025 began to drop out of the comparison. For the second half the year-earlier months are firmer. On the June release the county averaged between £267,478 and £270,403 from July to December 2025, so the annual rate is likely to stay low unless prices rise.
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Sales volumes
Sales counts lag further than prices and are revised more. The June release showed 854 Norfolk sales in January 2026, 829 in February, 911 in March and 708 in April, with May and June not yet published. January had already been revised up from the 757 we reported in July. The July release raised them again, to 863, 839, 978 and 752, and gave May as 729.
The same four months of 2025 recorded 1,010, 1,143, 2,237 and 593. That run was distorted by the stamp duty deadline: completions were pushed into March 2025 and April collapsed. Taking March and April together, 2025 had 2,830 completions against 1,619 on the June release for 2026. January and February, the months most likely to be complete, were down about a fifth. The first half of 2026 was quieter than the deadline-driven first half of 2025; how much quieter will not be clear until the autumn releases.
Every town: the 12-month average to June 2026
The table gives, for each of the 46 towns and villages we cover, the average and median price of standard sales completed in the 12 months to June 2026 and the number of sales behind them. The last column compares that 12-month average with the one for the 12 months to December 2025. These are simple averages of registered sales, so they read higher than the index, which adjusts for the mix of homes sold. The method is at the end.
Among the 38 places with at least 50 sales in both periods, the biggest rise was in Long Stratton, up 5.1% to £265,237. Aylsham and Poringland were next, both up 3.1% (£341,363 and £333,268), then Fakenham, up 2.9% (£271,700). The biggest fall was in Wroxham and Hoveton, down 9.8% to £444,346, followed by Hunstanton (down 5.3% to £297,577), Mulbarton (down 5.2% to £332,231) and Wymondham (down 4.8%). Part of Wroxham’s fall is a single £1.46 million sale in March 2025 leaving the window. The median moved less, from £415,000 to £400,000.
On smaller numbers, Loddon (47 sales) and Stalham (34) were up about 12%, and Wells-next-the-Sea (42 sales) was down 8.5% to £424,139. Burnham Market (14 sales) and Happisburgh (11) are in the table for completeness; their averages are too thin to read as a trend.
In July we named Brundall, Gorleston-on-Sea and the Holt to Aylsham corridor as places to watch, on the strength of search interest. Aylsham rose. Brundall (down 1.7%) and Gorleston (down 4.1%) fell, and Holt was up 1.3%. Search interest was a poor guide to sold prices.
The dearest places with at least 50 sales are Wroxham and Hoveton (£444,346), Cringleford (£402,824) and Holt (£390,000). The cheapest are Great Yarmouth (£154,031), King’s Lynn (£202,814) and Gorleston-on-Sea (£227,301). The gap between the Great Yarmouth and Cringleford averages is £248,793.
| Place | 12-month average to June 2026 | Median | Sales | Change on the 12 months to December 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnham Market | £572,571 | £522,500 | 14 | -9.0% |
| Wroxham and Hoveton | £444,346 | £400,000 | 61 | -9.8% |
| Wells-next-the-Sea | £424,139 | £415,000 | 42 | -8.5% |
| Cringleford | £402,824 | £369,995 | 61 | +2.0% |
| Holt | £390,000 | £335,000 | 85 | +1.3% |
| Blofield | £386,037 | £374,000 | 66 | -4.5% |
| Drayton | £364,866 | £330,000 | 67 | -2.4% |
| Rackheath | £362,214 | £340,879 | 102 | +0.8% |
| Hingham | £356,000 | £320,000 | 43 | -4.2% |
| Brundall | £352,671 | £325,000 | 70 | -1.7% |
| Taverham | £342,971 | £320,000 | 156 | -0.5% |
| Aylsham | £341,363 | £320,000 | 118 | +3.1% |
| Reepham | £339,679 | £300,000 | 41 | -0.8% |
| Happisburgh | £338,682 | £275,000 | 11 | +7.9% |
| Poringland | £333,268 | £305,000 | 99 | +3.1% |
| Mulbarton | £332,231 | £312,500 | 52 | -5.2% |
| Loddon | £331,128 | £270,000 | 47 | +12.1% |
| Sheringham | £321,000 | £295,000 | 111 | -4.2% |
| Thorpe St Andrew | £320,000 | £300,000 | 209 | -0.1% |
| Hethersett | £312,654 | £304,250 | 134 | -2.9% |
| Dersingham | £312,192 | £300,000 | 77 | +0.6% |
| Spixworth | £306,232 | £300,000 | 56 | -3.7% |
| Hunstanton | £297,577 | £268,000 | 100 | -5.3% |
| Wymondham | £294,635 | £275,750 | 278 | -4.8% |
| Costessey | £294,000 | £260,000 | 223 | +2.6% |
| Norwich | £292,859 | £236,000 | 1602 | +2.7% |
| Cromer | £286,620 | £260,000 | 127 | -4.1% |
| Hellesdon | £284,000 | £275,000 | 152 | -0.8% |
| Diss | £283,000 | £263,000 | 138 | -1.6% |
| Sprowston | £282,310 | £280,000 | 200 | +1.2% |
| Attleborough | £282,000 | £255,000 | 208 | +1.2% |
| Acle | £276,773 | £263,750 | 44 | +0.1% |
| Downham Market | £274,254 | £260,000 | 220 | -3.1% |
| Fakenham | £271,700 | £257,500 | 115 | +2.9% |
| Swaffham | £266,939 | £253,000 | 163 | +1.1% |
| Long Stratton | £265,237 | £250,000 | 74 | +5.1% |
| North Walsham | £261,000 | £255,000 | 177 | -1.9% |
| Caister-on-Sea | £259,714 | £247,500 | 151 | -1.0% |
| Dereham | £259,500 | £240,000 | 288 | -4.6% |
| Harleston | £253,221 | £250,000 | 75 | -3.7% |
| Stalham | £249,500 | £219,500 | 34 | +11.7% |
| Watton | £245,000 | £230,000 | 174 | -1.5% |
| Thetford | £240,425 | £218,750 | 246 | -0.7% |
| Gorleston-on-Sea | £227,301 | £190,000 | 276 | -4.1% |
| King’s Lynn | £202,814 | £190,000 | 331 | -1.9% |
| Great Yarmouth | £154,031 | £140,000 | 269 | -2.7% |
Counts for the latest months are incomplete, so the June 2026 window will be revised. Many Hellesdon, Sprowston and Thorpe St Andrew addresses are registered as plain Norwich, so those rows, and Costessey’s, use the postcode sectors set out in each town guide. Dereham includes Toftwood. Burnham Market is shown for 12 months; its guide uses three years, when 65 sales had a median of £715,000.
Two policy changes for the second half
On 26 June the government announced that from 21 July the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant for homes replacing oil or LPG heating would rise from £7,500 to £9,000, until the end of March 2027. It matters more here than in most counties: 17.3% of Norfolk homes were heated by oil alone at the 2021 Census, against 3.2% across England. Our heat pump grant explainer covers eligibility and running costs.
On 2 July the government’s Water Delivery Taskforce announced an agreement with Anglian Water covering developments of more than 500 homes, where the water company had objected over wastewater capacity. The five schemes it named, more than 18,000 homes in all, are in Lincolnshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and at Beccles in East Suffolk. None is in Norfolk. Our taskforce briefing covers what it could mean for Norfolk sites.
How this report is produced
County, district and regional figures are from the HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for June 2026, with the July release’s revisions shown separately; the source month is named with each figure. The town table uses HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: every standard residential sale (category A, so no repossessions, portfolio or other non-market transfers) in the seven Norfolk districts completed between July 2024 and June 2026 and registered by late September 2026. Each row uses the same boundary as that place’s town guide, so the figures match. Most places are grouped by the locality in the registered address; Costessey, Hellesdon, Sprowston and Thorpe St Andrew use postcode sectors because many of their addresses are registered as plain Norwich. The change column compares each place’s 12-month average with its average for calendar 2025 on the same boundary. Where the address file leaves the locality blank for a postcode or street that carries one on other sales, that locality is applied. Post towns are the addresses with no separate locality, which is why Dereham excludes Scarning and Great Yarmouth excludes Gorleston and Caister. Norwich is the city council district. Wroxham and Hoveton are combined because the two villages face each other across the Bure and sell as one market. Averages are simple means; medians are shown because one expensive sale can move a small town’s mean. Where a figure has not been published, we say so. See our methodology page for source links.
Frequently asked questions
What was the average house price in Norfolk in June 2026?
£271,712 on the June 2026 release of the UK House Price Index, up 3.6% on June 2025. The July release revised it to £269,869, up 2.9%. Either way the price moved only about £2,000 across the half-year.
Which Norfolk town had the biggest price rise in the first half of 2026?
Long Stratton, where the 12-month average of registered sales rose 5.1% to £265,237, among the 38 places with at least 50 sales in both periods. Aylsham and Poringland (both up 3.1%) and Fakenham (up 2.9%) came next.
Where in Norfolk did prices fall in the first half of 2026?
Wroxham and Hoveton, down 9.8% to £444,346 on 61 sales, partly because one £1.46 million sale left the window; the median fell under 4%. Hunstanton (down 5.3%), Mulbarton (down 5.2%) and Wymondham (down 4.8%) were next.
Why do the town averages read higher than the county figure?
The town table is a simple average of registered sales, which a few expensive houses pull up; across the whole county the same sales average £310,422. The UK House Price Index adjusts for the mix of homes sold. Rightmove’s Norfolk figure of £305,247 on 25 August 2026 is also a simple average, which is why it sits nearer the table.
Data sources: HM Land Registry and ONS UK House Price Index (June 2026 release, with July 2026 revisions); HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Period covered: January to June 2026. Last updated: 24 September 2026. Author: James Ward, Property and Money Editor.
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