Wymondham house prices: £285,000 town median

Asking prices tell you what a seller hopes for. What counts is what homes actually change hands for, and every completed sale in England and Wales is recorded by HM Land Registry and published. This page reads those records for South Norfolk: the official district average, what the middle home sold for in Wymondham, and how the town compares with Diss, Harleston, Long Stratton, Poringland, Costessey and the villages.

Two things are worth fixing before the numbers. First, the official index covers the whole South Norfolk district, which runs from Costessey and Cringleford on the Norwich fringe down to the Suffolk border at Diss and Harleston, and east to Loddon and the Waveney villages. No single figure describes all of that. Second, South Norfolk is a detached-house district. Of the 1,852 residential sales recorded here in the last year, 881 were detached houses, nearly half of everything sold, which is unlike almost any town closer to London.

The headline figure

The average home in South Norfolk sold for £314,000 in May 2026, the most recent month published in the UK House Price Index. That is up 1.7% over the year, from £309,000 in May 2025.

That rise is real but slow, and it is slower than the region around it. Across the East of England the average was £338,000, up from £331,000, and across the UK £271,000. South Norfolk sits about £24,000 below the regional average and about £43,000 above the UK one, which is roughly what a rural district wrapped around a regional city looks like in figures.

Underneath the average, the market has split by property type. Over the year to May 2026 the average semi-detached home in the district rose 2.4%, while the average flat fell 1.8%. If you own a family house here, your year has gone differently from your neighbour in a flat.

What it means for you

If you are buying, the step between property types matters more than timing. On the sold-price record the median terraced house in the district went for £230,000 and the median semi for £266,500, so moving from a terrace to a semi costs about £36,500, and the step from a semi to a detached house is another £111,000. Nothing about the market’s 1.7% drift will change those gaps in a year.

If you are selling, the district average is close to useless as a guide. There is £167,750 between the median in the Tacolneston and Bunwell postcode and the median in Costessey, and £64,500 between the two halves of Wymondham itself. Price against your postcode sector, not the district.

If you are renting, the numbers have moved faster than prices. The average private rent in South Norfolk was £981 a month in June 2026, up 3.3% from £950 a year earlier. That is £300 a month below the East of England average of £1,281, and it is the clearest cost-of-living advantage this district still has over the places closer to London that the trains from Wymondham reach in two and a quarter hours.

Prices by property type

District averages for May 2026 from the UK House Price Index:

• Detached houses: £432,000. The commonest thing sold in this district, and the reason the average sits where it does.
• Semi-detached houses: £279,000. The type that rose most over the year, at 2.4%.
• Terraced houses: £231,000. Town-centre stock in Wymondham, Diss and Harleston, plus the older village terraces.
• Flats and maisonettes: £135,000. The only type whose average fell over the year, and there are very few of them.

The same data splits buyers rather than buildings. A first-time buyer in the district paid an average of £259,000 in May 2026, up 1.7% from £254,000. A home mover paid £359,000. Buying with a mortgage cost an average of £311,000; a cash buyer paid £321,000, so cash buys slightly dearer property here rather than getting a discount, which is what you would expect in a district with this many downsizers.

What each part of the district actually sells for

This is where the district average stops being useful.

The table below is our own analysis of 1,852 residential sales recorded in the South Norfolk district that completed between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, taken from HM Land Registry Price Paid data. It shows the median, the middle sale, which one enormous transaction cannot distort. The district median over that period was £297,500; the mean over the same sales was £332,508.

A note on the postcodes, because South Norfolk’s postal geography is a mess. The district has no post town of its own for most of its area: Costessey, Cringleford, Hethersett, Poringland and Mulbarton all post as Norwich, the Waveney villages post as Bungay and Beccles, and Bunwell and Tacolneston post as Norwich too. Only sales the Land Registry records in the South Norfolk district are counted below, so every row is the South Norfolk part of that postcode and nothing else.

Two patterns run through that table, and neither of them is about the towns. The first is that the villages are the expensive part of South Norfolk, not the places with the shops and the stations. The dearest postcode by a distance is NR16, the farming country around Tacolneston, Bunwell and Wreningham, at £417,750, and the cheapest is Costessey, which is effectively a Norwich suburb. The second is that Wymondham sits below the district median while carrying one of its busiest markets: 295 recorded sales, more than any postcode except the Poringland and Loddon side of the district.

Wymondham on its own

Across the NR18 postcode, 295 sales carried a median of £285,000 and a mean of £318,298. Split by what was sold:

• Detached: £365,000 across 127 sales, the commonest thing sold in the town.
• Semi-detached: £255,000 across 107 sales.
• Terraced: £219,000 across 49 sales.
• Flats and maisonettes: £180,000 across 12 sales.

Inside the town the split runs almost exactly north to south, and the southern half is the expensive one.

There is £64,500 between the two halves of Wymondham, and the boundary runs through the middle of the town. Most of that gap is what is being sold rather than what a given home costs. In the south, 46 of the 92 sales were detached houses, at a median of £409,000. In the centre and north, detached houses were 81 of 203 sales at £334,000, and the rest of the market was semis at £253,750 and terraces at £219,000.

Twenty NR18 streets recorded four or more sales in the year, and the spread across them is far wider than the spread across the sectors. Deopham Road, on the south-western edge, returned a median of £692,500 across four sales, the highest street figure in the town, and Nightingale Avenue £392,500 across four. Norwich Road managed £495,000 across seven sales while sitting in the cheaper half of the postcode, which is a reminder that the sector average hides as much as it shows. At the bottom of the same list, Lime Tree Avenue returned £186,000 across six sales and High House Avenue £228,000 across five.

One number worth watching: new build

Of the 1,852 residential sales across South Norfolk in the year to June 2026, just 49 were flagged as new build. That is 2.6%, at a median of £310,000.

Part of that is a known lag, because new-build sales register late and affordable and social homes never appear in the sold-price record at all. But 2.6% is a strikingly thin figure for a district that the Greater Norwich authorities are counting on for 4,447 of the 9,888 homes forecast across the whole of Greater Norwich between 2025 and 2030. On the sold-price record, that supply has not arrived yet, which lines up with a planning position where Greater Norwich can currently show only 4.85 years of housing land.

What renting costs

For anyone weighing buying against staying put, these are the district averages for June 2026 from the same ONS release:

The district average of £981 is £300 a month below the East of England average of £1,281 and £407 below the UK average of £1,388. One-bedroom rents rose fastest over the year, at 3.9%, and four-bedroom rents slowest, at 2.5%.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average house price in Wymondham?

The middle home in the NR18 postcode sold for £285,000 over the year to June 2026, across 295 recorded sales. The South Norfolk average published by the UK House Price Index was £314,000 in May 2026. The two numbers measure different things: NR18 is Wymondham and Wicklewood, and the district figure includes Cringleford, Hethersett and the NR16 villages, which are all more expensive.

Are South Norfolk house prices going up or down in 2026?

Up, slowly. The district rose 1.7% in the year to May 2026, against a rise across the East of England that took the regional average from £331,000 to £338,000. Semi-detached homes rose 2.4% over the same period while flats fell 1.8%.

Which is the cheapest part of Wymondham to buy in?

On the sold-price record, NR18 0, the centre and north of the town, was cheaper at a median of £265,000 across 203 sales, against £329,500 in the southern half. The gap is mostly about what comes up for sale: terraces and semis dominate the centre, detached houses the south.

Where is the most expensive place to buy in South Norfolk?

Not a town. NR16, the villages around Tacolneston, Bunwell, Forncett and Wreningham, returned a median of £417,750 across 54 sales, more than £130,000 above the Wymondham figure.

How much is a flat in Wymondham?

Very few change hands. Only 12 flats or maisonettes sold in NR18 over the year to June 2026, at a median of £180,000. Across the district as a whole, 101 flats sold at a median of £158,000, and the UK House Price Index put the average South Norfolk flat at £135,000 in May 2026.

Where can I check what a specific house sold for?

Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Look up a street or a single address for free on the HM Land Registry Price Paid service.

Sources

• UK House Price Index, South Norfolk (ONS and HM Land Registry) for the district average, annual change, property-type, buyer-type and rent figures, last updated 22 July 2026.
• HM Land Registry Price Paid data for the 1,852 South Norfolk residential sales completed between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026 that the medians on this page are calculated from.
• Greater Norwich Housing Land Supply Assessment, 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2030 for the 4,447-home South Norfolk forecast and the 4.85-year supply position.
• HM Land Registry Price Paid search to check any individual address.

Land Registry figures are provisional and revised as more sales complete, and the last two months of any window are under-counted because of registration lag. Always confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision.