As of 27 September 2026, Hingham’s property market shows four properties for sale, of which one is sold subject to contract and three remain actively on the market. The average asking price across the town currently stands at £1,136,250, with individual prices ranging from £950,000 to £1,350,000. Properties here are taking an average of 191 days to find a buyer, and with an SSTC rate of 25.0 percent, conditions are currently classified as a buyers’ market. This is a notably thin slice of stock to draw conclusions from, and anyone reading these figures should treat them as a snapshot of a small, higher value segment of Hingham’s housing rather than the full breadth of the town’s market.
Snapshot date: 27 September 2026.
Average price: £1,136,250.
Price range: £950,000 to £1,350,000.
Properties currently for sale: 4.
Sold subject to contract (SSTC): 1.
Still actively for sale: 3.
SSTC rate: +25.0%.
Average days on market: 191 days.
Market temperature: Buyers’ Market.
Norfolk county average price: £858,100.
Norfolk county average days on market: 246 days.
This area’s price versus Norfolk average: higher by £278,150 (32.4%).
This area’s days on market versus Norfolk average: fewer by 55 days.
The clearest trend to note in Hingham at present is how concentrated the current market is. With only four properties for sale and one of those already sold subject to contract, the 25.0 percent SSTC rate reflects a single transaction rather than a broad wave of buyer activity, and should be read with that scale in mind. What stands out more reliably is pace. The average of 191 days on market here is 55 days fewer than the Norfolk county average of 246 days, suggesting that when a property in this price bracket does attract a serious buyer, it tends to move through to an offer somewhat faster than the county norm. Price direction itself is harder to call from four listings, but the current range of £950,000 to £1,350,000 confirms this is firmly an upper tier segment of the town’s housing stock.
With three of the four current listings still actively seeking a buyer and only one under offer, the balance of the market in Hingham currently favours buyers, and the data has been classified accordingly as a buyers’ market. An SSTC rate of 25.0 percent means sellers are competing for a limited pool of buyers at this price level, which typically translates into more room for negotiation and less pressure to accept the first asking price put forward. Buyers currently have three live options to consider within the £950,000 to £1,350,000 range, giving them genuine choice rather than a single property to chase.
Momentum in Hingham’s upper price bracket is best described as steady rather than accelerating or cooling. At 191 days, the average time a property spends on the market here is shorter than the Norfolk county average of 246 days, a gap of 55 days, which points to a market that, while classified as favouring buyers, is not stagnant. There is no evidence in the current figures of a sudden rush of new stock or a backlog building up. Four listings, one of them already sold subject to contract, is consistent with a measured pace of activity rather than any dramatic shift in either direction.
Buyers looking at Hingham’s current stock are in a reasonably comfortable negotiating position. Three of the four properties on the market remain actively for sale with no agreed buyer, and the SSTC rate of 25.0 percent confirms that sellers here are not seeing rapid uptake across the board. Combined with an average of 191 days on market, this suggests that asking prices within the £950,000 to £1,350,000 range should be treated as a starting point for discussion rather than a fixed figure, particularly for any property that has already been listed for longer than the town average.
What we have noticed handling enquiries in this part of Norfolk is that Hingham’s higher value properties, the detached houses and period homes that sit at the top of the town’s price range, move to their own rhythm, quite separate from the more modest terraced and semi-detached stock that turns over more briskly elsewhere in the town. A buyer paying close to £1.35 million is rarely in a hurry, and a seller at that level needs an agent who understands who that buyer actually is, where they are coming from, and what else in the region they might be weighing up against a Hingham address. That is the segment of the market we spend the most time in locally, and it informs how we advise both buyers and sellers here.
Look closely at Hingham’s current four listings and the picture that emerges is one of a small, high value corner of the town’s housing stock rather than a representative cross section. One property is sold subject to contract, three remain actively on the market, and the resulting SSTC rate of 25.0 percent should be understood as one sale out of four rather than a statistically robust trend. The average price of £1,136,250 sits well above what buyers would find across Hingham’s wider housing stock, and the £950,000 to £1,350,000 range confirms this is specifically the top end of the market. The average of 191 days on market, 55 days faster than the Norfolk county figure of 246 days, is the one statistic here with enough weight behind it to be genuinely instructive, and it points to a market that, while favouring buyers, is not slow by comparison with the wider county.
Buying in Hingham at this level means working with a short list rather than a long one. With three properties currently on the market and not yet under offer, choice within any given month can be limited, so buyers who find something close to what they want should expect to act with reasonable decisiveness even though the broader conditions favour them on price. Budgeting realistically means planning for figures between £950,000 and £1,350,000 at this end of the market, and allowing for the fact that the average property here takes 191 days to sell, so patience through surveys, searches and legal work is part of the process rather than a sign that anything has gone wrong.
Our considered view of Hingham’s current market is that it rewards buyers and sellers who treat it on its own terms rather than against assumptions drawn from busier commuter towns. Four properties for sale, one of them already agreed, is not a market moving quickly in volume, yet the 191 day average time to sell, shorter than the Norfolk county average of 246 days, tells us that well presented, realistically priced homes in this bracket do still find buyers within a reasonable timeframe. We would rather give a seller an honest read on where their property sits within the £950,000 to £1,350,000 range than inflate expectations that the current figures do not support.
For an investor assessing Hingham’s current top end stock, the headline figures are an average price of £1,136,250 across a range of £950,000 to £1,350,000, an SSTC rate of 25.0 percent, and an average of 191 days on market, 55 days fewer than the Norfolk county average of 246 days. This is a small and high value pocket of the market, with only four properties currently listed, so any investment thesis here needs to account for thin liquidity rather than assume the volume of transactions available in larger towns. The price premium over the Norfolk county average of £858,100, some 32.4 percent, reflects the specific character of what is currently on the market rather than a broader statement about Hingham property values as a whole.
There is a clear contrast between the price level of Hingham’s current for sale listings, averaging £1,136,250 within a £950,000 to £1,350,000 range, and the completed sales recorded by the Land Registry, where prices have run considerably lower. Of six recent completed transactions in Hingham, four were semi-detached houses and two were detached, with prices spanning £235,000 to £450,000. This gap illustrates that the town’s housing stock covers a genuinely wide spectrum, from modest semi-detached homes changing hands in the £200,000s and £300,000s to the larger detached and period properties that make up the current, smaller pool of higher value listings. Property type and size, rather than any single market trend, explain most of the price variation seen across these figures.
Hingham currently has four properties on the market, a modest number that reflects the specific, higher value segment captured in this snapshot. One of these is already sold subject to contract, leaving three live options for buyers, priced across a range of £950,000 to £1,350,000 with an average asking price of £1,136,250. At an average of 191 days on market, buyers considering any of these properties should expect the process to unfold over several months rather than weeks, and should use that timeframe as a basis for realistic planning around surveys, mortgage offers and legal work.
Land Registry records show six completed sales in Hingham in recent months, each distinct from the current on-market listings above. 2 Wellingtonia Terrace, a semi-detached house, sold for £327,500 on 20 July 2026. 13 Bears Lane, a detached house, sold for £450,000 on 16 July 2026. 81 Admirals Walk, a semi-detached house, sold for £268,750 on 16 July 2026. 19 Ringers Lane, a detached house, sold for £410,250 on 16 July 2026. 9 Springfield Way, a semi-detached house, sold for £335,000 on 9 July 2026. 14 Hopsack Road, a semi-detached house, sold for £235,000 on 3 July 2026. Of these six sales, four were semi-detached and two were detached, and the spread from £235,000 to £450,000 shows a part of the market well below the price range of the properties currently listed for sale.
Hingham’s average price of £1,136,250, as reflected in current listings, sits well above the Norfolk county average of £858,100, a difference of £278,150, or 32.4 percent. Properties here also move somewhat faster than the county as a whole, with an average of 191 days on market against the Norfolk average of 246 days, a gap of 55 days. Taken together, these figures describe a market segment within Hingham that commands a clear premium over the county average while still turning over at a reasonably competitive pace compared with Norfolk generally.
Set against its nearest neighbours, Hingham’s current figures sit roughly in the middle of the range. Wicklewood carries a higher average price of £1,510,000, some £373,750 above Hingham, yet its SSTC rate currently stands at 0.0 percent, well behind Hingham’s 25.0 percent. By contrast, Southburgh shows a markedly lower average price of £294,602, some £841,648 below Hingham, alongside an SSTC rate of 19.5 percent. Barnham Broom sits lower again at an average of £466,500, a difference of £669,750 against Hingham, but records the strongest SSTC rate of the three at 37.0 percent, ahead of Hingham’s own figure. The pattern across these four areas suggests price level and sales activity do not move in lockstep, and each should be judged on its own terms rather than assumed to follow the same pattern.
Hingham is a Georgian market town built around a generously proportioned, tree lined Market Place, with the Fairland running off it and a scatter of independent shops, a pharmacy, a butcher and a well regarded pub or two keeping daily life genuinely local rather than reliant on nearby Norwich or Wymondham. The parish church of St Andrew’s anchors the town historically, and Hingham is also known for its link to the Lincoln family, early emigrants from the town to Massachusetts whose descendants included Abraham Lincoln, a connection still marked locally and of interest to visitors. The housing stock mixes substantial detached and period homes, many set back from quiet lanes off the Market Place, with more modest semi-detached and terraced houses on the newer edges of town, which is exactly the spread reflected in the price range between current listings and completed Land Registry sales.
Selling in Hingham at the upper end of the market at present means working with a genuinely small pool of comparable stock, just four properties currently listed, one of them already under offer. Pricing needs to be grounded in the realistic £950,000 to £1,350,000 range rather than set against aspiration, particularly given that the average time to sell here is 191 days. Presentation matters more, not less, when there are only a handful of comparable properties for buyers to weigh a listing against, and a seller who understands this tends to achieve a cleaner, more straightforward sale than one who prices optimistically and waits for the market to catch up.
Choosing the right agent for a property in Hingham’s higher value bracket matters because so little of this stock is standard. Each of the four properties currently on the market is, in effect, competing in its own category rather than against a row of near identical houses, which means marketing and pricing advice need to be built around the specific property rather than a generic template. Our approach is to price against the evidence available, including both the current listings and the completed Land Registry sales for the town, and to be candid with sellers about where 191 days of average market time and a 25.0 percent SSTC rate leave their own timeline and expectations.
The Ivybridge Collection maintains an active presence across this part of Norfolk, and Hingham, with its Market Place, Fairland and the lanes running off them, is a town we track closely alongside the villages that surround it. Our familiarity extends beyond the current four listings captured in this snapshot to the completed sales recorded over recent months, giving us a working sense of how the town’s housing stock behaves across both its higher value properties and its more modest semi-detached and terraced homes. Anyone wanting a wider view of how we work across Norfolk can see more through The Ivybridge Collection.
Our professional advice to anyone selling a property in Hingham’s current upper bracket is to price against the evidence rather than against hope. With only four comparable properties on the market and an average of 191 days to sell, an asking price set significantly above the £950,000 to £1,350,000 range risks an extended period with no interest, which can itself become a disadvantage once buyers start asking why a property has been listed for longer than the norm. For buyers, our advice is to use the 25.0 percent SSTC rate as confirmation that competition for any single property remains measured, which supports a considered, evidence based offer rather than one driven by a fear of missing out.
The figures in this report reflect a snapshot of the Hingham property market taken on 27 September 2026, drawing on current listings data for the four properties on the market at that date, together with Land Registry records of six completed sales in the town over recent months. Comparative figures for Wicklewood, Southburgh and Barnham Broom, and for the Norfolk county average, are drawn from the same underlying listings and transaction data at the same snapshot date. As with any small sample, the current four listing figures should be read alongside the longer run of completed sales rather than in isolation.
If you are weighing up a sale in Hingham, particularly a property at the higher end of the town’s price range, or simply want an honest read on how your home compares against the current £950,000 to £1,350,000 bracket and the completed sales we have seen locally, our Private Property Brief gives you an evidence based valuation grounded in both. Get in touch and we will talk you through what the current figures mean for your own timeline and pricing.
For a wider picture of this part of Norfolk, our market reports for Wicklewood, Southburgh and Barnham Broom cover the areas closest to Hingham, each with its own average price, SSTC rate and days on market. Reading them alongside this report gives a fuller sense of how Hingham’s current buyers’ market and 191 day average compare with the pace and pricing of its immediate neighbours.
