School Road, Dereham house prices are built from 88 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 9 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £267,500. Across the 18 years from 2006 to 2024 the median moved +22.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -27.4%.
Median price paid
£267,500
Change in cash, 2006–2024
+22.9%
Change in real terms
-27.4%
Median per m²
£1,894
HM Land Registry88 sales7 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Jan 2026
Section 01
How School Road, Dereham prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Road, Dereham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2024. 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 | 1 | £78,500 | £174,307 |
| 2000s | 2 | £151,875 | £276,672 |
| 2010s | 1 | £375,000 | £528,750 |
| 2020s | 1 | £362,500 | £370,380 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Road, Dereham is £375,000 in 2019; the lowest is £78,500 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £78,500 to £362,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £166,444, so the real change over the whole record is +129.2% — about +3.12% 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: +22.9% in cash against -27.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Rowans | 9 Jan 2026 | Detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| Potthorpe House | 8 Dec 2025 | Detached | £505,000 | £515,978 |
| Wuthering Heights | 24 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £476,000 | £486,348 |
| Brook House | 27 Sep 2024 | Detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| Jacaranda | 27 Sep 2024 | Detached | £362,500 | £381,437 |
| Newcroft | 12 Sep 2024 | Detached | £685,000 | £720,784 |
| Cobble Cottage | 26 Jul 2024 | Detached | £357,500 | £376,175 |
| Ivydene | 27 Jun 2024 | Detached | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| Harebells | 4 Jul 2022 | Detached | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| Weavers | 24 Jan 2022 | Detached | £900,000 | £1,042,728 |
| Claremont | 11 Jan 2021 | Detached | £475,000 | £600,134 |
| Ramsdale | 15 Dec 2020 | Detached | £470,000 | £608,540 |
| The Rowans | 16 Oct 2020 | Detached | £335,000 | £433,747 |
| Tully Lodge | 28 Feb 2020 | Detached | £650,000 | £841,598 |
| Willow Bank | 14 Feb 2020 | Detached | £385,000 | £498,485 |
| Tumbleweed | 17 Dec 2019 | Detached | £323,620 | £423,288 |
| Rose Cottage | 17 Sep 2019 | Detached | £480,000 | £627,829 |
| Weavers | 22 Aug 2019 | Detached | £350,000 | £457,792 |
| Brer Brook | 8 May 2019 | Detached | £557,500 | £729,198 |
| Weavers | 22 Mar 2019 | Detached | £375,000 | £490,492 |
| Bouganville | 12 Sep 2018 | Detached | £290,000 | £386,484 |
| Willow Bank | 15 Dec 2017 | Detached | £410,000 | £558,012 |
| Cobble Cottage | 17 Oct 2016 | Detached | £255,000 | £355,990 |
| Meadow View | 21 Jun 2016 | Detached | £275,000 | £383,911 |
| Edgefield House | 17 Jun 2016 | Detached | £315,000 | £439,752 |
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 School Road, Dereham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE ROWANS School Road | £118,000 (2001) | £375,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| POTTHORPE HOUSE School Road | £78,300 (1995) | £505,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| WUTHERING HEIGHTS School Road | £166,280 (2007) | £476,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +2.9% |
| BROOK HOUSE School Road | £112,000 (1999) | £475,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| NEWCROFT School Road | £132,500 (1998) | £685,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| COBBLE COTTAGE School Road | £255,000 (2016) | £357,500 (2024) | +4.3% | +0.7% |
| WEAVERS School Road | £375,000 (2019) | £900,000 (2022) | +33.9% | +28.6% |
| WILLOW BANK School Road | £410,000 (2017) | £385,000 (2020) | -2.1% | -3.7% |
| TUMBLEWEED School Road | £185,250 (2012) | £323,620 (2019) | +8.3% | +6.3% |
| ROSE COTTAGE School Road | £330,000 (2004) | £480,000 (2019) | +2.5% | +0.2% |
| BOUGANVILLE School Road | £225,000 (2007) | £290,000 (2018) | +2.3% | -0.1% |
| MEADOW VIEW School Road | £100,000 (1999) | £275,000 (2016) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School Road, 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 | 84 | 95.5% | £270,000 | £38,000 – £900,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4 | 4.5% | £166,280 | £84,000 – £476,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Road, Dereham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 88 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 88 | 100.0% | £267,500 |
A further 3 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 School Road, 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 £267,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.14% 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 School Road, 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 School Road, Dereham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Road, Dereham sits above that national figure — +69.8%.
Within Dereham the street ranks 102 of 668 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £150,000 (+78.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,894 per square metre, across 7 of the 88 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £38,000 to £900,000. 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.
School Road, 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
- High Street£128,000 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- THE ROWANS School Road4 sales
- NEWCROFT School Road4 sales
- POTTHORPE HOUSE School Road3 sales
- BROOK HOUSE School Road3 sales
- WEAVERS School Road3 sales
- MEADOW VIEW School Road3 sales
- IVY COTTAGE School Road3 sales
- MEADOW HOUSE School Road3 sales
- THE OLD SMITHY School Road3 sales
- COBBLERS School Road3 sales
- WUTHERING HEIGHTS School Road2 sales
- COBBLE COTTAGE School Road2 sales
- WILLOW BANK School Road2 sales
- TUMBLEWEED School Road2 sales
- ROSE COTTAGE School Road2 sales
- BOUGANVILLE School Road2 sales
- THE NEST School Road2 sales
- HIGHFIELDS School Road2 sales
- CAMPIONS School Road2 sales
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE School Road2 sales
- HEATOR HOUSE School Road2 sales
- WALNUT TREE FARM School Road2 sales
- LITTLE ORCHARD School Road2 sales
- MULBERRY School Road2 sales
Back to Dereham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Road, Dereham?
The median price paid in School Road, Dereham across every sale on the register is £267,500. 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 School Road, Dereham?
88 sales are on record for School Road, Dereham, the most recent completing on 9 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Road, Dereham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +22.9% between 2006 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -27.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Road, Dereham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, set in 2019. 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 School Road, Dereham?
£1,894 per square metre, from the 7 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 9 Jan 2026. 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, “School Road, 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.