Broadland homes averaged £313,407 in July 2026, up 2.9% in a year and second only to King's Lynn in Norfolk. Median sold prices for 23 parishes, Wroxham to Acle.
The average home in Broadland was worth £313,407 in July 2026, up 2.9% over the year. That is against 0.7% for Norfolk as a whole and 1.1% for England (UK House Price Index, Broadland). Only King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, at 3.0%, rose faster in the county.
The rise has slowed sharply. Broadland’s annual growth was 8.1% in May and 6.4% in June, both as since revised. The district average is still £6,600 below its September 2022 peak of £320,007. The index figure is a mean average, not a median.
There is a catch worth knowing before you use that number. Broadland has no town. The district runs from Hellesdon and Sprowston, which are Norwich suburbs in everything but the council that empties the bins, out to Wroxham and Acle on the water and Aylsham and Reepham inland. A single district average flattens a market that is genuinely two or three markets. So below the headline we have gone to the raw sales records.
What we did with the sold-price data
Every completed sale in England and Wales is registered and published. We pulled HM Land Registry Price Paid records for the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026 across all seven postcode districts that touch Broadland, then checked every individual postcode against the Office for National Statistics postcode directory and kept only the sales that fall inside the Broadland district.
That filtering matters here more than almost anywhere. Not one of Broadland’s postcode districts is wholly Broadland: NR6 and NR7 are shared with Norwich, NR8 with South Norfolk, and NR11 and NR12 are mostly North Norfolk. In NR12, covering Wroxham and Hoveton, only 71 of 277 sales were actually in Broadland. Quote an “NR12 average” at a Wroxham estate agent and you are mostly quoting Hoveton, Ludham and Stalham, which are somebody else’s district.
What survived is 1,841 verified Broadland sales, and their median is £305,000. The median is the middle sale rather than the mean, so one large house does not drag it upward.
Where the money is
The ordering is not random. Wroxham (£437,500) and Salhouse (£423,500) are the two most expensive parishes in the district, and both sit on the water. So do Blofield and Brundall. The pattern that holds across Broadland is that frontage, or a short walk to it, is worth more than proximity to Norwich.
The Norwich fringe, where most of the district’s population actually lives, is the cheaper half. Sprowston (£292,798), Thorpe St Andrew (£295,000) and Hellesdon (£270,000) all sit below the district median, and between them they account for 677 of the 1,841 sales, well over a third. This is the single most useful thing in the data: the parishes that set Broadland’s volume are not the parishes that set its price.
Acle is the outlier at £256,000, the cheapest parish in the district with a meaningful number of sales, despite being on the Broads. It is further out, it has no Norwich commute to speak of, and it is the closest of the Broadland market villages to Great Yarmouth, where the district average is £205,316 and falling.
Every Broadland parish with 15 or more sales
| Parish | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Wroxham | £437,500 | 24 |
| Salhouse | £423,500 | 20 |
| Buxton with Lammas | £400,000 | 15 |
| Blofield | £381,250 | 62 |
| Great and Little Plumstead | £369,750 | 48 |
| Coltishall | £344,500 | 18 |
| Rackheath | £330,000 | 43 |
| Brundall | £325,000 | 67 |
| Aylsham | £320,000 | 109 |
| Taverham | £319,000 | 140 |
| Drayton | £315,000 | 73 |
| Spixworth | £310,000 | 80 |
| Horsham St Faith and Newton St Faith | £308,000 | 17 |
| Thorpe St Andrew | £295,000 | 218 |
| Sprowston | £292,798 | 310 |
| Lingwood and Burlingham | £287,500 | 28 |
| Horsford | £285,000 | 61 |
| Old Catton | £283,000 | 110 |
| Reepham | £282,500 | 41 |
| Cawston | £278,750 | 16 |
| Hellesdon | £270,000 | 149 |
| Acle | £256,000 | 45 |
| Horstead with Stanninghall | £225,000 | 15 |
Parishes with fewer than 15 recorded sales are left out because a median built on six or seven transactions tells you about those seven houses and nothing about the village.
Prices by property type
The official index gives the district-wide split for July 2026 (UK House Price Index):
- Detached: £421,798, up 2.6% over the year and the largest single category here.
- Semi-detached: £274,748, up 3.6%, the fastest-rising type.
- Terraced: £226,397, up 2.9%.
- Flats and maisonettes: £145,444, down 0.3%, the only type to fall.
First-time buyers paid an average of £269,619.
Our own Broadland-only medians run slightly below those averages, as they should: detached £375,000 (841 sales), semi-detached £275,000 (646), terraced £233,000 (261) and flats £165,000 (93). Detached houses are 46% of every home sold in this district, which is a rural-and-suburban mix rather than a town one.
What it means for you
If you are buying, the £181,500 gap between Wroxham and Acle is the number to carry around. Both are Broads villages with a station on the same Wherry line, and both are in the same district, but they are not the same market. Check the parish, not the postcode, and remember that a London commute from here means changing at Norwich.
If you are selling, the fast gains of spring have gone. The average rose £8,847 in the year to July, and flats slipped by 0.3%. Pricing a two-bed flat in Hellesdon off the district headline will not work.
If you are staying put, the thing to watch is supply. Broadland is carrying the largest housing allocation in Greater Norwich at North Rackheath, where 3,850 homes were approved in February 2026, and Rackheath’s current median is £330,000. Several thousand new homes arriving in one parish over a long build-out is the main thing that could change the pattern above.
How Broadland compares
| Area | Average price | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Broadland | £313,407 | +2.9% |
| South Norfolk | £311,587 | +1.5% |
| North Norfolk | £292,563 | -3.1% |
| Norwich | £224,323 | -2.3% |
| Great Yarmouth | £209,114 | +0.7% |
| Norfolk | £269,185 | +0.7% |
| East of England | £337,518 | +0.5% |
| England | £293,479 | +1.1% |
Broadland is the dearest district in Norfolk on this measure, £1,820 above South Norfolk. It is £89,084 above the city of Norwich next door, where prices fell 2.3% over the year. North Norfolk fell faster still, by 3.1%.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Broadland?
£313,407 in July 2026, the most recent month published in the UK House Price Index. The median Broadland sale over the year to June 2026 was £305,000, from our own read of 1,841 Land Registry Price Paid records.
Are Broadland house prices rising?
Yes, but more slowly. Prices were up 2.9% in the year to July 2026, down from 6.4% in June. That is still the second-fastest rise in Norfolk after King’s Lynn and West Norfolk (3.0%), against 0.7% for the county and 1.1% for England. Norwich (-2.3%) and North Norfolk (-3.1%) both fell.
Which is the most expensive village in Broadland?
Wroxham, at a median of £437,500, followed by Salhouse at £423,500. Both are on the water. The cheapest parish with a meaningful sample is Acle at £256,000.
Why is the NR12 average so different from Wroxham’s?
Because NR12 is mostly not in Broadland. Of 277 sales we found in NR12, only 71 were inside the Broadland district; the rest are Hoveton, Ludham, Stalham and other North Norfolk places on the far bank. The same trap applies to NR11 (mostly North Norfolk), NR8 (a third South Norfolk) and NR6 and NR7 (partly Norwich city).
How much is a detached house in Broadland?
The district average was £421,798 in July 2026, up 2.6% over the year. Our median for the 841 detached sales inside Broadland was £375,000.
Where can I check what a specific house sold for?
Free, on the HM Land Registry Price Paid search. It covers every completed sale in England and Wales.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Broadland (HM Land Registry), July 2026 release, for the district average, annual change, property-type and first-time buyer figures, and the same index for the other areas in the comparison table.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for the 1,841 Broadland sales completed July 2025 to June 2026 behind our parish medians.
- ONS Postcode Directory via postcodes.io to assign every sale postcode to its district and parish.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid search to look up any individual address.
Figures are provisional and revised as more sales complete, and the most recent weeks are always under-counted because registration lags completion. Parish analysis run 9 August 2026; index figures updated to the July 2026 release on 27 September 2026.
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