Broadland homes averaged £314,426 in May 2026, up 7.6% in a year, the sharpest rise in Norfolk. Median sold prices for 23 parishes, Wroxham to Acle.
Broadland is the fastest-rising housing market in Norfolk, and by some distance. The average home in the district sold for £314,426 in May 2026, up 7.6% over the year, against 3.1% for Norfolk as a whole and 2.3% for England (UK House Price Index). North Norfolk and Great Yarmouth both went backwards over the same twelve months.
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 May 2026 (UK House Price Index):
- Detached: £423,833, up 7.7% over the year and the largest single category here.
- Semi-detached: £275,512.
- Terraced: £226,279.
- Flats and maisonettes: £145,803, up 3.0%.
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, a 7.6% year is real money, roughly £22,000 on a typical Broadland home, but it is concentrated in detached stock. Flats moved 3.0%. 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 | £314,426 | +7.6% |
| South Norfolk | £314,302 | +1.7% |
| North Norfolk | £293,640 | -0.7% |
| Norwich | £237,629 | +5.8% |
| Great Yarmouth | £205,316 | -0.5% |
| Norfolk | £271,947 | +3.1% |
| East of England | £338,224 | +2.3% |
| England | £292,095 | +2.3% |
Broadland and South Norfolk have arrived at almost exactly the same average price, £314,426 against £314,302, from opposite directions: Broadland up 7.6%, South Norfolk up 1.7%. Broadland is now the most expensive district in Norfolk that is not on the coast, and it sits £76,797 above the city of Norwich next door.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Broadland?
£314,426 in May 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, and faster than anywhere else in Norfolk. Prices were up 7.6% in the year to May 2026, against 3.1% for Norfolk and 2.3% for England. North Norfolk (-0.7%) and Great Yarmouth (-0.5%) both fell over the same period.
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 £423,833 in May 2026, up 7.7% 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 (ONS and HM Land Registry) for the district average, annual change and property-type figures.
- 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. Analysis run 9 August 2026.
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