Mill Lane, Norwich house prices are built from 285 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 16 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £215,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +51.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.9%.
Median price paid
£215,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+51.7%
Change in real terms
+9.9%
HM Land Registry285 salesLatest sale 16 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Mill Lane, Norwich prices moved
The chart tracks the median Mill Lane, Norwich house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | £69,500 | £154,323 |
| 2000s | 9 | £160,000 | £291,473 |
| 2010s | 8 | £209,000 | £294,690 |
| 2020s | 6 | £300,000 | £306,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for Mill Lane, Norwich is £375,000 in 2022; the lowest is £67,950 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £110,250 to £311,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £239,158, so the real change over the whole record is +32.9% — about +0.98% 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: +51.7% in cash against +9.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage 53 Rainbows End Chalet Park | 16 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £50,000 | £50,000 |
| Cottage 54 Rainbows End | 4 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £132,000 | £132,000 |
| 23 | 7 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| Crest-O-Cliff | 27 Oct 2025 | Detached | £311,000 | £317,761 |
| 49 | 14 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 66 Rainbows End Park | 10 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £113,000 | £115,457 |
| 2 | 28 May 2025 | Detached | £418,000 | £427,087 |
| Hacienda | 12 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 5 | 25 Apr 2025 | Detached | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 21 | 13 Dec 2024 | Detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| Hill View | 6 Dec 2024 | Detached | £347,500 | £365,653 |
| 46 | 15 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| Mill House | 6 Sep 2024 | Detached | £515,000 | £541,903 |
| Wensum House | 5 Jul 2024 | Detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 25 | 4 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| Cottage 68 Rainbows End Chalet Park | 22 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| Mill Corner Cottage | 30 Apr 2024 | Detached | £522,000 | £549,269 |
| 19 | 10 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| Mill Barn | 8 Apr 2024 | Detached | £760,000 | £799,701 |
| The Lodge, 15 | 29 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 65 | 19 Dec 2023 | Detached | £385,000 | £415,977 |
| 4 | 11 Oct 2023 | Detached | £415,000 | £448,391 |
| 24 | 20 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| Cottage 29 Rainbows End Chalet Park | 20 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £129,000 | £139,379 |
| Cottage 46 Rainbows End Chalet Park | 23 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £100,000 | £108,046 |
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 Mill Lane, Norwich values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COTTAGE 54 RAINBOWS END Mill Lane | £37,000 (2014) | £132,000 (2026) | +11.2% | +7.9% |
| 23 Mill Lane | £107,750 (1999) | £320,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| CREST-O-CLIFF Mill Lane | £141,000 (2016) | £311,000 (2025) | +9.2% | +5.5% |
| 49 Mill Lane | £92,500 (2016) | £120,000 (2025) | +2.9% | -0.6% |
| 2 Mill Lane | £43,000 (1997) | £418,000 (2025) | +8.5% | +5.7% |
| 5 Mill Lane | £36,500 (1997) | £230,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 21 Mill Lane | £67,950 (1997) | £300,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| HILL VIEW Mill Lane | £122,500 (2002) | £347,500 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| 46 Mill Lane | £158,000 (2015) | £170,000 (2024) | +0.8% | -2.4% |
| MILL HOUSE Mill Lane | £120,000 (1996) | £515,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.7% |
| 25 Mill Lane | £26,000 (2000) | £295,000 (2024) | +10.7% | +7.7% |
| MILL CORNER COTTAGE Mill Lane | £305,000 (2013) | £522,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +1.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Mill Lane, Norwich 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 | 171 | 60.0% | £248,000 | £30,000 – £1,325,000 |
| Semi-detached | 54 | 18.9% | £164,000 | £26,000 – £380,000 |
| Terraced | 40 | 14.0% | £199,995 | £36,500 – £590,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 20 | 7.0% | £170,000 | £60,000 – £285,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Mill Lane, Norwich
36 of the sales on record are leasehold and 249 freehold — 12.6% 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 £139,000 and the median freehold sale £230,000 — a gap of +65.5%. 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 | 36 | 12.6% | £139,000 |
| Freehold | 249 | 87.4% | £230,000 |
| New build | 37 | 13.0% | £200,000 |
| Existing home | 248 | 87.0% | £217,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -8.2%. 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 77 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 Mill Lane, Norwich
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Broadland, 42.1% of 58,414 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 946 | 1.6% |
| B | 8,689 | 14.9% |
| C | 14,955 | 25.6% |
| D | 22,873 | 39.2% |
| E | 8,188 | 14.0% |
| F | 2,231 | 3.8% |
| G | 532 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Broadland at £939 a month as of Jun 2026 — £692 for a one-bedroom home and £1,079 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £215,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.24% 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 NR12, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 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 131,721 residents the 2021 census counted in Broadland, 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 Mill Lane, Norwich
The 2021 census counted 131,721 residents in Broadland across 57,760 households. 78.0% of those households own their home and 22.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a NR12 postcode: 13 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadland High Ormiston Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 725 |
| Stalham High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 492 |
| St John's Community Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 221 |
| Stalham Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 217 |
| Coltishall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 213 |
| Stalham Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 118 |
| Bacton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 77 |
| Neatishead Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 75 |
| Tunstead Primary School | Primary | Community school | 67 |
| Frettenham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 60 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Worstead Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Wroxham (Bure Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 6.4 km |
| Wroxham (Bure Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 6.5 km |
| Hoveton & Wroxham Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
Section 09
How Mill Lane, Norwich compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Mill Lane, Norwich sits above that national figure — +36.5%.
Within Norwich the street ranks 1446 of 4381 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £162,500 (+32.3%).
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 £26,000 to £1,325,000. 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.
Mill Lane, Norwich sits in Broadland, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Broadland at 8.1 times median local earnings of £37,937 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
- Church Road£223,000 median
- Yarmouth Road£175,000 median
- King Street£205,975 median
- High Street£152,550 median
- Wroxham Road£224,498 median
- North Walsham Road£165,000 median
- Church Close£175,000 median
- Rectory Road£219,500 median
- Neville Road£117,000 median
- Beach Road£103,000 median
- Marsh Road£205,000 median
- Weavers Close£85,000 median
- Stalham Road£181,000 median
- Coastline Village£85,000 median
- Charles Close£295,000 median
- Waveney Drive£247,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- MILL HOUSE Mill Lane10 sales
- 2 Mill Lane7 sales
- 3 Mill Lane7 sales
- 21 Mill Lane6 sales
- SUNNICOTE Mill Lane6 sales
- 17 Mill Lane6 sales
- 1 Mill Lane6 sales
- 20 Mill Lane6 sales
- 5 Mill Lane5 sales
- 24 Mill Lane5 sales
- 22 Mill Lane5 sales
- 7 Mill Lane5 sales
- 23 Mill Lane4 sales
- MILL BARN Mill Lane4 sales
- 4 Mill Lane4 sales
- WESTERLEY Mill Lane4 sales
- ST. CHRISTOPHERS Mill Lane4 sales
- ROSE COTTAGE Mill Lane4 sales
- 49 Mill Lane3 sales
- 25 Mill Lane3 sales
- CRANKS CASTLE Mill Lane3 sales
- 28 Mill Lane3 sales
- THE OLD POST OFFICE Mill Lane3 sales
- WHITE HORSES Mill Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Mill Lane, Norwich?
The median price paid in Mill Lane, Norwich across every sale on the register is £215,000. 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 Mill Lane, Norwich?
285 sales are on record for Mill Lane, Norwich, the most recent completing on 16 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Mill Lane, Norwich house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +51.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Mill Lane, Norwich house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, 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 Mill Lane, Norwich?
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 16 Mar 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, “Mill Lane, Norwich 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.