That is the middle of 408 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
408 homes sold in three years: 157 detached houses, 93 semi-detached houses, 114 terraced houses and 44 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£335K
median sale · 157 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£400K
Last 12 months
£340K46 sold
Semi-detached houses£241K
median sale · 93 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£211K–£290K
Last 12 months
£245K30 sold
Terraced houses£210K
median sale · 114 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£240K
Last 12 months
£200K35 sold
Flats and maisonettes£125K
median sale · 44 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£107K–£158K
Last 12 months
£120K13 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses38%
Semi-detached houses23%
Terraced houses28%
Flats and maisonettes11%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Diss’s homes sold for between £196K and £340K
One sale in ten was under £148K and one in ten over £403K. 49% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £252,500, sits in the £250–300K band
408 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £50,000 in 1995 to £250,250 in the last 12 months (£231,995 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
124 sales in the last 12 months, against 293 in 2007, the busiest year, and 120 in 2010. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 8%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Diss costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Diss, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£72K
£100K
£208K
£215K
£229K
£288K
£340K
Semi-detached houses
£47K
£65K
£134K
£150K
£167K
£220K
£245K
Terraced houses
£39K
£59K
£120K
£126K
£145K
£180K
£200K
Flats and maisonettes
£30K
£38K
£95K
£103K
£100K
£125K
£120K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
784 new homes have been sold in Diss since 1995; the share peaked at 38% in 2012.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £358,950
against £250,000 for a home sold on, 44% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
11% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.1% sold leasehold in Diss. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Denmark Street is Diss’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
31 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Denmark Street
IP22
19
£290,000
Mixed
2
Victoria Road
IP22
18
£228,750
Mostly terraced houses
3
Harrier Way
IP22
13
£260,000
Mixed
4
Heywood Avenue
IP22
12
£372,500
Mostly detached houses
5
Mission Road
IP22
11
£175,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Hartismere Mews
IP22
10
£355,975
Mixed · new builds
7
Shelfanger Road
IP22
10
£208,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Roydon Road
IP22
8
£389,000
Mixed
9
Mount Street
IP22
8
£326,500
Mixed
10
Walcot Rise
IP22
8
£292,500
Mostly detached houses
11
Viscount Close
IP22
8
£287,497
Mostly detached houses
12
Stanley Road
IP22
8
£237,500
Mostly terraced houses
13
Fisher Road
IP22
8
£166,500
Mixed
14
Parkside Court
IP22
8
£153,750
Mostly flats
15
Church Street
IP22
8
£109,500
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Croft Lane: £403,000
Diss median£253K
Croft Lane£403K
Heywood Road£400K
Roydon Road£389K
Heywood Avenue£373K
Scholars Walk£358K
Cheapest streets
Church Street: £109,500
Diss median£253K
Church Street£110K
Jennings Way£120K
Parkside Court£154K
Riverside Maltings£165K
Fisher Road£167K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Norfolk
Diss is the 35th most expensive of 52 towns in Norfolk
Diss is in the middle of Norfolk’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Diss
What is the average house price in Diss?
The median home in Diss sold for £252,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 408 standard sales (£250,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £335,000, semi-detached houses £241,000, terraced houses £209,750 and flats and maisonettes £125,000.
Are house prices going up in Diss?
The median was £265,000 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£250,000), and £250,250 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Diss each year?
124 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 173 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Diss?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Croft Lane (IP22, £403,000), Heywood Road (IP22, £400,000) and Roydon Road (IP22, £389,000).
How much does a new build cost in Diss?
New homes sold for a median £358,950 over three years, against £250,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 2% of sales.
Is Diss expensive for Norfolk?
Diss is the 35th most expensive of 52 towns of 2,500 or more in Norfolk by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.