Factory Lane, Diss house prices are built from 100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Feb 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £106,500. Across the 11 years from 2007 to 2018 the median moved +0.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -23.1%.
Median price paid
£106,500
Change in cash, 2007–2018
+0.3%
Change in real terms
-23.1%
Median per m²
£1,633
HM Land Registry100 sales9 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Feb 2025
Section 01
How Factory Lane, Diss prices moved
The chart tracks the median Factory Lane, Diss house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2018. 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 | 4 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 6 | £84,500 | £153,934 |
| 2010s | 1 | £177,500 | £250,275 |
The highest yearly median on record for Factory Lane, Diss is £178,250 in 2004; the lowest is £44,062 in 1995. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £44,062 to £177,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,838, so the real change over the whole record is +141.8% — about +3.91% 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: +0.3% in cash against -23.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossfields, 42 | 24 Feb 2025 | Detached | £405,000 | £413,804 |
| Araglin | 23 Aug 2024 | Detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 4 Louie'S Court | 15 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £117,500 | £123,638 |
| 26 | 8 Jun 2023 | Detached | £460,000 | £497,011 |
| 8 Louie'S Court | 23 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £142,506 |
| 4 | 17 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £192,500 | £243,212 |
| 108 | 3 Jul 2020 | Detached | £540,000 | £699,174 |
| Crossfields, 42 | 6 Feb 2020 | Detached | £368,000 | £476,474 |
| 36 | 10 Dec 2018 | Detached | £285,000 | £379,820 |
| 92 | 17 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £177,500 | £236,555 |
| 8 Louie'S Court | 14 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £108,000 | £143,932 |
| 8 Louie'S Court | 28 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £139,934 |
| 26 | 16 Feb 2018 | Detached | £325,000 | £433,129 |
| 4 | 1 Sep 2017 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £224,566 |
| 2 Louie'S Court | 27 Jan 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £117,046 |
| 30 | 20 Dec 2016 | Detached | £330,000 | £460,693 |
| 20 | 25 Nov 2016 | Semi-detached | £297,000 | £414,624 |
| 9 Louie'S Court | 5 Feb 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £122,153 |
| 2 | 20 Nov 2015 | Semi-detached | £159,950 | £225,530 |
| 24 | 3 Aug 2015 | Detached | £430,000 | £606,300 |
| 108 | 16 Dec 2014 | Detached | £230,000 | £329,908 |
| 8 | 1 Apr 2014 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £179,298 |
| 12 | 25 Jan 2013 | Semi-detached | £142,000 | £207,053 |
| 110 | 17 Nov 2011 | Detached | £250,000 | £383,152 |
| 30 | 21 Feb 2011 | Detached | £225,000 | £344,837 |
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 Factory Lane, Diss values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CROSSFIELDS, 42 Factory Lane | £111,500 (1999) | £405,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 4 LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane | £37,500 (2000) | £117,500 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 26 Factory Lane | £215,000 (2008) | £460,000 (2023) | +5.2% | +2.2% |
| 8 LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane | £32,000 (1997) | £123,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +3.0% |
| 4 Factory Lane | £44,482 (1995) | £192,500 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| 108 Factory Lane | £230,000 (2014) | £540,000 (2020) | +15.3% | +13.3% |
| 36 Factory Lane | £86,000 (1998) | £285,000 (2018) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 2 LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane | £29,000 (1995) | £86,000 (2017) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 30 Factory Lane | £70,000 (1996) | £330,000 (2016) | +8.1% | +5.7% |
| 20 Factory Lane | £60,000 (2000) | £297,000 (2016) | +10.5% | +8.1% |
| 9 LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane | £29,500 (1996) | £87,500 (2016) | +5.6% | +3.3% |
| 2 Factory Lane | £44,062 (1995) | £159,950 (2015) | +6.7% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Factory Lane, Diss 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 | 40 | 40.0% | £162,500 | £60,000 – £540,000 |
| Semi-detached | 33 | 33.0% | £127,500 | £43,033 – £297,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 24 | 24.0% | £59,500 | £20,000 – £123,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 3.0% | £56,650 | £52,850 – £105,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Factory Lane, Diss
24 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76 freehold — 24.0% 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 £65,250 and the median freehold sale £140,000 — a gap of +114.6%. 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 | 24 | 24.0% | £65,250 |
| Freehold | 76 | 76.0% | £140,000 |
| New build | 8 | 8.0% | £45,166 |
| Existing home | 92 | 92.0% | £120,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -62.5%. 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 2 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 Factory Lane, Diss
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 £106,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.40% 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 IP22, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.
Against the 141,476 residents the 2021 census counted in Breckland, that is 0.01 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 Factory Lane, Diss
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.
13 state and independent schools have a IP22 postcode: 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diss High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 877 |
| Roydon Primary School | Primary | Community school | 255 |
| St Botolph's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 180 |
| Diss Church of England Junior Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 149 |
| Bressingham Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 139 |
| Diss Infant Academy and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 115 |
| Wortham Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 100 |
| Palgrave Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 85 |
| Garboldisham Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 72 |
| Hopton Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 46 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Diss Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Eccles Road Rail Station | Rail | 11.9 km |
| Harling Road Rail Station | Rail | 13.0 km |
| Attleborough Rail Station | Rail | 15.6 km |
Section 09
How Factory Lane, Diss compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Factory Lane, Diss sits below that national figure — -32.4%.
Within Diss the street ranks 430 of 466 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £173,000 (-38.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,633 per square metre, across 9 of the 100 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 £20,000 to £540,000. 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.
Factory Lane, Diss 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
- The Street£224,000 median
- Victoria Road£125,000 median
- Common Road£200,000 median
- Rectory Road£147,500 median
- Denmark Street£180,000 median
- The Green£240,000 median
- Shelfanger Road£125,000 median
- Louies Lane£172,475 median
- Fisher Road£68,250 median
- Ryders Way£109,000 median
- Wheatfields£112,500 median
- Diss Road£172,000 median
- High Road£229,500 median
- Ensign Way£155,000 median
- Church Street£100,000 median
- Appletree Lane£119,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 4 Factory Lane6 sales
- 36 Factory Lane5 sales
- 20 Factory Lane5 sales
- 8 Factory Lane5 sales
- CROSSFIELDS, 42 Factory Lane4 sales
- 8, LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane4 sales
- 2, LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane4 sales
- 30 Factory Lane4 sales
- 4, LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane3 sales
- 26 Factory Lane3 sales
- 9, LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane3 sales
- 2 Factory Lane3 sales
- 24 Factory Lane3 sales
- 12 Factory Lane3 sales
- 6 Factory Lane3 sales
- 14 Factory Lane3 sales
- 28 Factory Lane3 sales
- 108 Factory Lane2 sales
- 110 Factory Lane2 sales
- 19 Factory Lane2 sales
- 38 Factory Lane2 sales
- 17 Factory Lane2 sales
- 7, LOUIE'S COURT Factory Lane2 sales
- 32 Factory Lane2 sales
Back to Diss house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Factory Lane, Diss?
The median price paid in Factory Lane, Diss across every sale on the register is £106,500. 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 Factory Lane, Diss?
100 sales are on record for Factory Lane, Diss, the most recent completing on 24 Feb 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Factory Lane, Diss house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +0.3% between 2007 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -23.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Factory Lane, Diss house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £178,250, set in 2004. 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 Factory Lane, Diss?
£1,633 per square metre, from the 9 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 24 Feb 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, “Factory Lane, Diss 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.