High Street, Dereham house prices are built from 127 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 3 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £128,000. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +168.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +78.6%.
Median price paid
£128,000
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+168.0%
Change in real terms
+78.6%
HM Land Registry127 salesLatest sale 3 Oct 2025
Section 01
How High Street, Dereham prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Dereham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £48,500 | £107,693 |
| 2000s | 6 | £115,000 | £209,496 |
| 2010s | 2 | £167,000 | £235,470 |
| 2020s | 1 | £475,000 | £485,326 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Dereham is £475,000 in 2022; the lowest is £48,500 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £48,500 to £475,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £102,835, so the real change over the whole record is +435.2% — about +6.94% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +168.0% in cash against +78.6% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 3 Oct 2025 | Detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 17 | 13 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| Bottom Flat Lingerwood House, 6 | 9 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| Top Flat Lingerwood House, 6 | 9 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| 26 | 14 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £124,000 | £133,977 |
| 3 | 17 Nov 2022 | Detached | £752,000 | £871,257 |
| Nelson House | 9 Sep 2022 | Detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| Truewell, 26 | 8 Jul 2022 | Detached | £297,000 | £344,100 |
| Millers Old Cottage | 29 Apr 2022 | Detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 1 Chelsea Cottage | 30 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £314,500 | £364,376 |
| Flat 2 12a | 17 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £67,000 | £84,651 |
| Rest-A-While, 15 | 23 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £222,000 | £280,484 |
| 14b Aldiss Court | 13 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £120,027 |
| Bayfield House | 14 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £294,000 | £371,452 |
| Truewell, 26 | 21 Feb 2020 | Detached | £230,000 | £297,796 |
| 1 | 7 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £365,000 | £477,412 |
| 14b Aldiss Court | 31 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £91,558 |
| White House | 29 Nov 2018 | Detached | £500,000 | £666,352 |
| 10a Aldiss Court | 12 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £106,616 |
| Rose Cottage, 4 | 31 May 2018 | Detached | £192,000 | £255,879 |
| 32 | 30 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £466,446 |
| Steetley House | 8 Aug 2017 | Detached | £440,000 | £598,842 |
| Norton Cottage, 11 | 12 May 2017 | Terraced | £187,500 | £255,188 |
| Rest-A-While, 15 | 12 May 2017 | Terraced | £164,000 | £223,205 |
| Harmony House | 21 Apr 2017 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £231,371 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to High Street, Dereham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 High Street | £126,000 (1999) | £325,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 17 High Street | £48,000 (1997) | £310,000 (2025) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 26 High Street | £71,000 (2002) | £124,000 (2023) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 3 High Street | £220,000 (2002) | £752,000 (2022) | +6.3% | +3.7% |
| NELSON HOUSE High Street | £90,000 (1997) | £475,000 (2022) | +6.9% | +4.3% |
| TRUEWELL, 26 High Street | £170,000 (2015) | £297,000 (2022) | +8.3% | +5.3% |
| 1 CHELSEA COTTAGE High Street | £47,000 (2000) | £314,500 (2022) | +9.0% | +6.4% |
| FLAT 2 12A High Street | £75,000 (2005) | £67,000 (2021) | -0.7% | -2.9% |
| REST-A-WHILE, 15 High Street | £28,000 (1996) | £222,000 (2021) | +8.6% | +6.3% |
| 14B ALDISS COURT High Street | £89,000 (2006) | £95,000 (2021) | +0.4% | -1.8% |
| BAYFIELD HOUSE High Street | £56,000 (1997) | £294,000 (2021) | +7.2% | +4.9% |
| WHITE HOUSE High Street | £135,000 (1999) | £500,000 (2018) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Dereham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 41 | 32.3% | £260,000 | £47,500 – £752,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 24.4% | £140,000 | £47,000 – £350,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 29 | 22.8% | £70,000 | £20,000 – £110,000 |
| Terraced | 26 | 20.5% | £135,000 | £17,500 – £365,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Dereham
47 of the sales on record are leasehold and 80 freehold — 37.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £73,500 and the median freehold sale £170,500 — a gap of +132.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 47 | 37.0% | £73,500 |
| Freehold | 80 | 63.0% | £170,500 |
| New build | 2 | 1.6% | £77,475 |
| Existing home | 125 | 98.4% | £135,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -42.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 24 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in High Street, Dereham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Breckland, 43.6% of 70,247 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,221 | 1.7% |
| B | 9,472 | 13.5% |
| C | 19,939 | 28.4% |
| D | 24,152 | 34.4% |
| E | 11,327 | 16.1% |
| F | 3,356 | 4.8% |
| G | 780 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Breckland at £923 a month as of Jun 2026 — £661 for a one-bedroom home and £1,039 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £128,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.65% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of NR20, 4 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 41.8 times quieter.
Against the 141,476 residents the 2021 census counted in Breckland, that is 0.03 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around High Street, Dereham
The 2021 census counted 141,476 residents in Breckland across 60,358 households. 67.8% of those households own their home and 32.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a NR20 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dereham Neatherd High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,079 |
| Swanton Morley VC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 174 |
| Mattishall Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 164 |
| St Mary's Community Primary School, Beetley | Primary | Community school | 156 |
| Bawdeswell Community Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 85 |
| Brisley Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 67 |
| Foulsham Primary School Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 61 |
| North Elmham Church of England Primary Academy & Nursery | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 60 |
| Hockering Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 30 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway) | Metro or underground | 5.3 km |
| Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway) | Metro or underground | 5.3 km |
| Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway) | Metro or underground | 18.8 km |
| Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway) | Metro or underground | 18.8 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Dereham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Dereham sits below that national figure — -18.7%.
Within Dereham the street ranks 492 of 668 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £150,000 (-14.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £17,500 to £752,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
High Street, Dereham sits in Breckland, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Breckland at 7.9 times median local earnings of £33,621 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Norwich Road£159,475 median
- Dereham Road£226,000 median
- The Street£185,000 median
- Station Road£182,000 median
- South Green£146,000 median
- Eastgate Street£163,000 median
- Church Road£239,000 median
- Fakenham Road£240,500 median
- Greenfields Road£249,000 median
- Bittering Street£192,498 median
- Malthouse Court£92,500 median
- Rayners Way£82,000 median
- Greengate£172,500 median
- Church Street£123,000 median
- Low Road£180,000 median
- Burgh Lane£161,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- NORTON COTTAGE, 11 High Street5 sales
- NELSON HOUSE High Street4 sales
- 1, CHELSEA COTTAGE High Street4 sales
- REST-A-WHILE, 15 High Street4 sales
- 14B, ALDISS COURT High Street4 sales
- BURLEY COTTAGE High Street4 sales
- GLENMORE COTTAGE High Street4 sales
- 26 High Street3 sales
- 3 High Street3 sales
- TRUEWELL, 26 High Street3 sales
- BAYFIELD HOUSE High Street3 sales
- WHITE HOUSE High Street3 sales
- 10A, ALDISS COURT High Street3 sales
- ROSE COTTAGE, 4 High Street3 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 31 High Street3 sales
- VIRGINIA COTTAGE High Street3 sales
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 31 High Street3 sales
- VINEYARD COTTAGE High Street3 sales
- 24 High Street2 sales
- 17 High Street2 sales
- FLAT 2, 12A High Street2 sales
- 32 High Street2 sales
- HARMONY HOUSE High Street2 sales
- 14A, ALDISS COURT High Street2 sales
Back to Dereham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Dereham?
The median price paid in High Street, Dereham across every sale on the register is £128,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in High Street, Dereham?
127 sales are on record for High Street, Dereham, the most recent completing on 3 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Dereham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +168.0% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +78.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Dereham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £475,000, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in High Street, Dereham?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 3 Oct 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “High Street, Dereham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.