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Bawdeswell market report NR20, Dereham
The NR20 (Bawdeswell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 10,323 HM Land Registry entries for NR20 (Dereham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 123 registered 2026 sales put the NR20 (Dereham) median at £310,000, down 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £346,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,180 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,323 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
NR20 is a postcode district covering Bawdeswell, Bylaugh, Elsing in Dereham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where NR20 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.
Today's NR20 prices, from the sold record
In the NR20 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £310,000, from 123 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £346,300, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in NR20
A square metre of NR20 home has cost about £3,180 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving NR20 9% above the national figure.
A typical NR20 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 123 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 351 |
| 2024 | £319,500 | £339,694 | 358 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 298 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 373 |
| 2021 | £318,000 | £402,629 | 415 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 313 |
| 2019 | £269,000 | £352,595 | 300 |
| 2018 | £242,000 | £322,591 | 311 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 357 |
| 2016 | £237,500 | £332,265 | 341 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 347 |
| 2014 | £193,500 | £274,514 | 321 |
| 2013 | £183,000 | £263,319 | 310 |
| 2012 | £172,500 | £253,898 | 255 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 238 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 272 |
| 2009 | £174,200 | £280,028 | 228 |
| 2008 | £178,200 | £292,107 | 212 |
| 2007 | £197,000 | £334,167 | 357 |
| 2006 | £182,000 | £315,929 | 416 |
| 2005 | £188,200 | £334,920 | 268 |
| 2004 | £172,500 | £313,294 | 372 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 392 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 377 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 405 |
| 2000 | £82,000 | £160,925 | 374 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 388 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 307 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 365 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 336 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 243 |
In cash terms the typical NR20 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 180%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NR20 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 (+34.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 58% of the typed total. In 2011, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £229,000 against £162,500 for a flat, a 41% premium.
Median by property type, NR20
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £406,500 | 68 | 5,944 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 35 | 2,895 |
| Terraced | £212,500 | 19 | 1,397 |
| Flats | £162,500 (2011) | – | 48 |
What NR20 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.3% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 227 sales completed in NR20. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 301 sales a year recently, against 370 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How NR20 trades
Detached homes made up 53% of last year's sales, an unusually house-heavy mix that keeps the median well above what a flat or terrace here goes for.
What tenants pay around NR20
For renting purposes NR20 sits in Breckland. The ONS average private rent there is £920 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £659 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,507 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Breckland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £310,000 median purchase price, a rent of £920 a month (£11,040 a year) works out at a 3.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about NR20 (Bawdeswell)
Are property prices falling in NR20 (Bawdeswell)?
Is NR20 (Bawdeswell) a good place to buy a house?
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What happens to NR20 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in NR20 right now
Everything above is what homes in NR20 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 64 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the NR20 median sold price.
Set against 227 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 64 homes on the market here are roughly 3 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
15% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 NR20 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.
Month by month: when NR20 sells
March is when NR20 changes hands most (12.6% of the 1,795 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.7%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 120 | 6.7% |
| February | 126 | 7.0% |
| March | 226 | 12.6% |
| April | 132 | 7.4% |
| May | 124 | 6.9% |
| June | 176 | 9.8% |
| July | 143 | 8.0% |
| August | 156 | 8.7% |
| September | 182 | 10.1% |
| October | 145 | 8.1% |
| November | 135 | 7.5% |
| December | 130 | 7.2% |
Moving up a bedroom in NR: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NR area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £252,750 | £285,000 (+13%) | £325,000 (+14%) | £409,250 (+26%) | £528,000 (+29%) |
| Semi-detached | £197,500 | £227,000 (+15%) | £255,125 (+12%) | £305,000 (+20%) | £375,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £165,000 | £205,000 (+24%) | £220,000 (+7%) | £280,000 (+27%) | £375,000 (+34%) |
| Flat | £125,000 | £160,200 (+28%) | £310,000 (+94%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
NR20 ranks 27 of 35 in the NR area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
NR area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside NR20, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How NR20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NR25 | £430,000 | +8% |
| NR23 | £401,000 | -5% |
| NR22 | £375,000 | +9% |
| NR26 | £351,200 | +11% |
| NR4 | £336,200 | +3% |
| NR16 | £330,000 | -3% |
| NR13 | £325,000 | +3% |
| NR14 | £325,000 | -3% |
| NR11 | £320,000 | +7% |
| NR24 | £320,000 | +1% |
| NR9 | £315,000 | +9% |
| NR20 (this report) | £310,000 | -3% |
| NR10 | £295,000 | +7% |
| NR18 | £282,000 | -1% |
| NR8 | £281,000 | +7% |
| NR12 | £280,000 | -7% |
| NR27 | £280,000 | -5% |
| NR34 | £280,000 | +1% |
| NR7 | £275,000 | +6% |
| NR2 | £270,000 | +7% |
| NR6 | £270,000 | +8% |
| NR15 | £270,000 | -11% |
| NR21 | £270,000 | +0% |
| NR35 | £268,200 | +8% |
Selling in NR20? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NR20, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NR20's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NR20 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NR20. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NR20 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.