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Thorpe Hamlet market report NR1 3, Norwich
The NR1 3 (Thorpe Hamlet) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,323 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in NR1 3 (Norwich) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in NR1 3 (Norwich) sold for £236,000 in 2026, the median of 39 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £241,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,170 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,323 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NR1 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NR1 (Norwich). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where NR1 3 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What a home in NR1 3 sells for
Take the 39 registered 2026 sales in NR1 3 and the middle price, the median, is £236,000. The mean lands at £241,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in NR1 3
The last five years of sales put NR1 3 at roughly £3,170 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NR1 3 sits 17% below the national market.
NR1 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £236,000 | £236,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £176,000 | £180,209 | 91 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 79 |
| 2023 | £197,500 | £217,004 | 86 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 121 |
| 2021 | £202,000 | £255,758 | 121 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 72 |
| 2019 | £186,500 | £244,457 | 152 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 197 |
| 2017 | £204,000 | £278,236 | 112 |
| 2016 | £191,500 | £267,910 | 122 |
| 2015 | £169,500 | £239,504 | 118 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 150 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 89 |
| 2012 | £139,500 | £205,327 | 85 |
| 2011 | £141,000 | £212,856 | 79 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 104 |
| 2009 | £116,000 | £186,471 | 269 |
| 2008 | £152,200 | £249,488 | 100 |
| 2007 | £163,000 | £276,493 | 159 |
| 2006 | £150,700 | £261,596 | 120 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 91 |
| 2004 | £125,500 | £227,933 | 87 |
| 2003 | £111,000 | £204,489 | 79 |
| 2002 | £104,000 | £195,675 | 79 |
| 2001 | £71,200 | £136,878 | 98 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 74 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 106 |
| 1998 | £46,200 | £93,258 | 66 |
| 1997 | £46,500 | £95,362 | 65 |
| 1996 | £40,800 | £86,045 | 61 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical NR1 3 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £236,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 178%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NR1 3 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+46.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−23.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NR1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +34.1% | +31.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 39 sales completed in NR1 3. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 83 sales a year recently, against 98 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of NR1 3
NR1 3 falls under Norwich, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,152 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £784 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,594 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Norwich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,152 a month is £13,824 a year, which against the £236,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market NR1 3 is
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NR1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
NR1 3 (Thorpe Hamlet): the questions that come up
Is NR1 3 (Thorpe Hamlet) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NR1 3 (Thorpe Hamlet)?
Are property prices falling in NR1 3 (Thorpe Hamlet)?
Are NR1 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
NR1's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 161 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NR1 district, not just NR1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every NR1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in NR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NR area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £280,000 | £375,246 (+34%) | £545,000 (+45%) | £750,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £245,000 (+17%) | £289,950 (+18%) | £375,000 (+29%) | £515,000 (+37%) |
| Terraced | £185,000 | £215,000 (+16%) | £245,000 (+14%) | £335,000 (+37%) | £423,750 (+26%) |
| Flat | £140,000 | £182,500 (+30%) | £280,000 (+53%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the NR area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in NR1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NR1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NR1 1 | £170,000 | 51 |
| NR1 2 | £240,200 | 38 |
| NR1 4 | £232,500 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full NR1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NR1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NR1 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NR1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the NR1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NR1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NR1 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NR1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual NR1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.