This report on Ormesby St Margaret is dated 27 September 2026 and finds a market with very little live stock: four residential properties are currently listed for sale, with an average asking price of £1,737,500. None of the four is recorded as sold subject to contract, giving an SSTC rate of 0.0% and leaving all four actively marketed. The average time on market across these listings stands at 198 days, and asking prices span a wide range, from £1,250,000 to £2,350,000. Taken together, these figures place Ormesby St Margaret’s current conditions as an Extreme Buyers’ Market.
Snapshot date: 27 September 2026
Average asking price: £1,737,500
Properties currently for sale: 4
Actively marketed (not yet SSTC): 4
Sold subject to contract: 0
SSTC rate: 0.0%
Average days on market: 198 days
Price range: £1,250,000 to £2,350,000
Market temperature: Extreme Buyers’ Market
Norfolk county average price: £856,332
Norfolk county average days on market: 246 days
With only four properties listed and none sold subject to contract, Ormesby St Margaret’s trend line is one of stalled demand rather than rising or falling prices; there is no current rate of sale from which a price direction can be read. The single Land Registry sale on record, 8-10 Filby Lane at £570,000 in December 2024, predates this snapshot by well over a year and sits far below today’s £1,737,500 average asking price, underlining that current on-market stock occupies a materially different bracket to the area’s last completed transaction. At 198 days, average time on market here is actually 48 days shorter than the Norfolk county average of 246 days, so the defining trend is thin, high value stock moving at a broadly comparable pace to the wider county, without yet converting into agreed sales.
Ormesby St Margaret currently sits firmly in buyers’ territory, classified as an Extreme Buyers’ Market. All four properties listed for sale remain actively marketed, with zero recorded as sold subject to contract, an SSTC rate of 0.0%. That combination, a full complement of unsold stock and no agreed sales to point to, is the clearest possible signal of a market where demand has not yet met the asking prices on offer, which currently range from £1,250,000 to £2,350,000.
Momentum is effectively flat at present. With an SSTC rate of 0.0% across the area’s four listings, there is no recent evidence of offers being accepted to suggest acceleration. Average days on market of 198 is, however, 48 days fewer than the Norfolk county average of 246 days, which tempers the picture somewhat: properties here are not sitting noticeably longer than elsewhere in the county, even though none have yet progressed to an agreed sale. On balance, this reads as a stable but static market rather than one that is cooling from a previously busier position or building toward one.
Buyers approaching Ormesby St Margaret at present hold a strong negotiating position. With all four listed properties still actively for sale and none sold subject to contract, there is no competitive pressure from rival offers to contend with. An average of 198 days on market gives a reasonable indication of how long current stock has already sat without finding a buyer, a useful reference point when opening discussions on any of the four properties priced between £1,250,000 and £2,350,000.
Working this corner of Norfolk, what strikes us about Ormesby St Margaret at the moment is how little top end stock there actually is, just four properties on the market, each one a genuinely distinct proposition given the £1,250,000 to £2,350,000 spread between them. This is not a village where you can look at ten similar detached houses and triangulate a price; with this few listings, each property has to be assessed on its own merits, and we spend real time understanding what distinguishes one from another before advising a client either way.
The figures for Ormesby St Margaret reward a closer look precisely because there are so few of them. An average asking price of £1,737,500 across just four properties means this figure is driven heavily by the individual homes currently listed, from £1,250,000 up to £2,350,000, rather than representing a broad, statistically settled market average. The area’s sole Land Registry record, the December 2024 sale of 8-10 Filby Lane for £570,000, offers little direct comparison to today’s asking prices, since it reflects a completed transaction at a different point in time and a different price bracket entirely. With an SSTC rate of 0.0%, none of the current stock has yet converted into an agreed sale, and 198 days on market, though 48 days under the Norfolk average of 246 days, is still a substantial period for homes at this price point to have remained unsold.
Buying in Ormesby St Margaret at this price level means engaging with a genuinely small pool, just four properties currently on the market, spanning £1,250,000 to £2,350,000, with none of them sold subject to contract. That gives a buyer real room to negotiate, since there is no rival offer pushing up the price, and an average of 198 days on market suggests sellers at this level have already had time to test the market. Buyers should expect each of the four homes to differ considerably in size, specification and setting, meaning due diligence has to be done property by property rather than against a ready set of local comparables.
Our considered view of Ormesby St Margaret is that its current Extreme Buyers’ Market status reflects thin stock at a high price point rather than a wholesale change in the character of the village. Four properties, none sold subject to contract, is too small a sample to draw firm conclusions about demand, but it does mean sellers currently listing in the £1,250,000 to £2,350,000 bracket are doing so without the reassurance of recent agreed sales nearby. Against that, 198 days on market, actually shorter than the Norfolk county average of 246 days, suggests homes here are not sitting unsold for exceptionally long once the right buyer is found, so much as waiting for that buyer to appear at all.
For an investor, Ormesby St Margaret’s average asking price of £1,737,500 sits £881,168 above the Norfolk county average of £856,332, a premium of 102.9%, placing the area firmly at the top end of the county’s price spectrum rather than in entry level territory. With an SSTC rate of 0.0% across the four properties currently listed, there is no recent evidence of sales converting, which warrants caution on exit timescales. Average days on market of 198 is 48 days fewer than the Norfolk average, a modest point in the area’s favour, but the overall picture, a handful of high value properties with nothing yet agreed, points to a market suited to patient capital rather than a quick turnaround.
With only four properties currently listed, pricing in Ormesby St Margaret is set less by a typical type mix and more by the characteristics of each individual home. Asking prices span £1,250,000 at the lower end to £2,350,000 at the top, a difference of £1,100,000 across just four listings, which means the area’s £1,737,500 average should be read as a midpoint between a small number of distinct, high value properties rather than a representative figure for a wider type of home.
Right now, the four properties making up Ormesby St Margaret’s entire for sale stock sit between £1,250,000 and £2,350,000, with every one still open for offers and none recorded as sold subject to contract. For anyone browsing these listings today, that means there is no rival buyer already agreed on any of them, an SSTC rate of 0.0% across the board. The average of 198 days these homes have spent on the market so far is a useful starting point when judging how firmly a seller might be holding to their asking price, rather than a sign that interest in the village has moved on entirely.
Land Registry data for Ormesby St Margaret specifically records one completed sale: 8-10 Filby Lane, sold on 19 December 2024 for £570,000, classified under an ‘other’ property type. This is the only confirmed completed transaction available for the area, and it sits well below the £1,737,500 average asking price of the four properties currently listed, a reminder that completed sales and current asking prices can represent quite different segments of the same small market.
Ormesby St Margaret’s average asking price of £1,737,500 stands well above the Norfolk county average of £856,332, a difference of £881,168, or 102.9%, making it one of the higher priced markets within the county’s coverage of 341 other areas. On timing, the area actually performs slightly better than the county as a whole, averaging 198 days on market against Norfolk’s 246 days, 48 days fewer, even though the area’s SSTC rate of 0.0% shows none of its current stock has yet moved to an agreed sale.
Among its closest neighbours, Ormesby St Margaret is comfortably the most expensive. Filby averages £307,000, £1,430,500 below Ormesby St Margaret, and currently carries an SSTC rate of +20.0%, markedly stronger than Ormesby St Margaret’s 0.0%. Rollesby is the closest comparison by price, averaging £1,695,000, just £42,500 below Ormesby St Margaret, though its SSTC rate of 0.0% mirrors the same lack of agreed sales seen here. Scratby averages £279,750, £1,457,750 below Ormesby St Margaret, with an SSTC rate of +20.0%. The pattern across all three neighbours is consistent: where average prices are far lower, in Filby and Scratby, sales are currently being agreed at a noticeably higher rate than in Ormesby St Margaret.
Ormesby St Margaret is one of the three Ormesby villages that sit just inland from the Norfolk coast, within a short drive of Great Yarmouth and the beaches around California and Scratby. It has long combined a working village feel, grounded in its parish church and surrounding farmland, with the practical pull of coastal tourism nearby, and that dual character still shapes the kind of property found here, from modest village homes to the larger, higher value houses that make up its current for sale stock. For anyone weighing up the area, it offers a genuinely rural Norfolk setting without being far removed from the Broads and the coast road running north.
Selling in Ormesby St Margaret at present means doing so into a market with very little competing stock, just four properties listed in total, and none of them yet sold subject to contract. That thin field can work in a seller’s favour in terms of visibility, but the 0.0% SSTC rate is a signal that recent asking prices in the £1,250,000 to £2,350,000 range have not yet found buyers willing to commit. At 198 days, average time on market here is actually shorter than the Norfolk county figure of 246 days, which suggests realistic pricing at this level can still move within a reasonable timeframe, even if the current snapshot shows no agreed sales to point to.
A market made up of just four live listings, each priced in seven figures and none yet sold subject to contract, is not one where a standard approach works. Getting a result for a seller in Ormesby St Margaret depends on genuinely understanding where each property sits against the area’s £1,250,000 to £2,350,000 range and against the single Land Registry sale on record, rather than relying on a wide pool of recent comparables that simply does not exist here.
The Ivybridge Collection covers Ormesby St Margaret as part of its regular Norfolk territory, tracking the area alongside its immediate neighbours rather than treating it as an occasional listing. Readers can see the full range of markets we cover, including this one, through The Ivybridge Collection, and our familiarity with the area’s thin top end stock and its single Land Registry sale means we can advise with real specificity rather than general county level assumptions.
Our professional advice to anyone selling in Ormesby St Margaret at present is to price with direct reference to the area’s current £1,250,000 to £2,350,000 range rather than to the single Land Registry sale on record, which at £570,000 reflects a different part of the market entirely and predates this snapshot by well over a year. With an SSTC rate of 0.0% across the four properties currently listed, sellers should treat the absence of recent agreed sales as a genuine signal to seek independent valuation advice before setting an asking price, rather than assuming demand will simply catch up. Buyers, for their part, should factor the 198 day average time on market into any offer strategy, since it indicates current stock has already had a reasonable period to attract interest without yet doing so.
This report on Ormesby St Margaret reflects a snapshot taken on 27 September 2026, drawing on the four live listings currently on the market, their sold subject to contract status, and Land Registry completed sale records where available. The average asking price of £1,737,500 and average days on market of 198 are both drawn directly from that live listing data, while the single confirmed completed sale, 8-10 Filby Lane at £570,000, comes from Land Registry records dated December 2024. County comparison figures are drawn from the Norfolk average across 341 other areas in this coverage.
If you are considering a move in Ormesby St Margaret, whether weighing up one of the four properties currently listed between £1,250,000 and £2,350,000, or thinking about when to bring a home of your own to market, a conversation with us starts with the real figures rather than guesswork. Get in touch for a valuation grounded in what is actually happening in this specific market right now.
For a wider view of this part of Norfolk, the market reports for Filby, Rollesby and Scratby are worth reading alongside this one. Filby and Scratby both sit considerably lower in average price and are currently showing stronger SSTC rates, while Rollesby is the closest match in price to Ormesby St Margaret and shares its 0.0% SSTC rate, making it the most directly comparable of the three.
