The average South Norfolk home was £312,124 in June, up 2% in a year while Broadland rose 7.2%. Broadland has now been the dearer district for six months.

South Norfolk house prices rose 2.0% over the year to June 2026. The average home in the district sold for £312,124, according to figures published on 19 August by HM Land Registry. That is a rise of £5,991 on June last year, and a fall of 0.6% on May.

The more interesting number is next door. Broadland rose 7.2% over the same year, and is now the dearer district at £315,128. The two councils share a website, a planning register and a set of back-office services, and until recently they tracked each other closely. They have now pulled apart.

Broadland has been the dearer of the two every month since January 2026, six months running. Before that South Norfolk had held the position since February 2025. In June 2025 the gap ran the other way, and by £12,088: South Norfolk was at £306,133 while Broadland sat at £294,045 and was still falling.

Where South Norfolk sits in Norfolk

Of the county’s seven districts, South Norfolk is the second dearest and the second slowest growing.

Annual house price change by Norfolk district, June 2026 Horizontal bar chart of the twelve month change in average house price for Norfolk's seven districts in June 2026. Broadland is highest at 7.2 per cent, then King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 5.0, Norwich at 3.6, Breckland at 2.7, Great Yarmouth at 2.5, South Norfolk at 2.0 and North Norfolk lowest at 1.7. A dashed line marks the England average of 1.8 per cent. South Norfolk grew more slowly than every Norfolk district but one Change in average house price over the 12 months to June 2026. Average price shown after each bar. England 1.8% Broadland 7.2% King's Lynn and West Norfolk 5.0% Norwich 3.6% Breckland 2.7% Great Yarmouth 2.5% South Norfolk 2.0% North Norfolk 1.7% £315,128 £263,298 £230,706 £273,851 £209,164 £312,124 £300,273 Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index, June 2026, published 19 August 2026. Averages are means, not medians. Graphic by Wymondham News.
Broadland and South Norfolk are now nearly the same price. A year ago there was £12,000 between them, the other way round.

Note what the chart does not say. A big annual rise does not make a district expensive. Great Yarmouth rose 2.5% and is still the cheapest place in Norfolk to buy, at £209,164. Norwich rose 3.6% and remains the second cheapest, because the city has far more flats than the districts around it.

Still short of the 2023 peak

South Norfolk prices peaked at £318,549 in January 2023. Three and a half years later the district is £6,425 below that, a shortfall of 2.0%.

Flats are further back. The average South Norfolk flat was £145,570 in January 2023 and is £134,548 now, £11,022 lower. Flats were also the only property type in the district to fall over the past year.

What moved, and what did not

The year to June 2026 in South Norfolk, by type:

  • Semi-detached: £276,890, up 2.8%. The strongest of the four.
  • Terraced: £230,011, up 2.6%.
  • Detached: £428,838, up 1.5%. This matters more here than elsewhere, because South Norfolk is a detached-house district.
  • Flats: £134,548, down 0.3%. The only type to lose ground.
  • First-time buyers paid an average of £257,259, up 2.4%.

Every one of those numbers fell between May and June. The month-on-month change was negative across all four property types, which is why the district average slipped 0.6% even as the annual figure improved.

Three things to know before you use these figures

  • This is a mean, not a median. The UK House Price Index averages every sale, so a handful of large country houses pulls the figure up. The middle sale is lower. In the NR18 postcode covering Wymondham, the median sold price over the last year was £285,000.
  • It covers the whole district. South Norfolk runs from Costessey and Cringleford on the edge of Norwich down to the Suffolk border at Diss and Harleston. No single figure describes all of it.
  • The sales count lags the price by about three months. The most recent published volume for South Norfolk is 117 sales in April 2026.

That sales figure carries a distortion worth naming rather than reading through. South Norfolk recorded 380 sales in March 2025 and 104 in April 2025, either side of the stamp duty threshold change on 1 April 2025. The comparable months this year were 145 and 117. The market did not collapse; buyers rushed to complete before the deadline and then stopped.

What it means for you

  • If you are selling in South Norfolk, the market is flat, not falling. A 2.0% annual rise is roughly in line with England as a whole at 1.8%, and ahead of the East of England at 1.1%.
  • If you own a flat, you are still behind. Flats have not recovered their January 2023 value and lost ground again over the past year.
  • If you are buying with a Norwich commute in mind, compare the two sides of the city. Broadland to the north and South Norfolk are now within £3,000 of each other on average, where a year ago South Norfolk was £12,000 dearer.
  • Do not use the district average to price your own house. Use the postcode-level medians, our Wymondham house prices page has them by postcode district and sector, and check what has actually sold on your street.

The July 2026 index will be published at 9.30am on Wednesday 16 September.

For the rest of the practical information on this site, see our pages on planning applications, roadworks and travel and train times to London.

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