Oulton Broad’s for-sale market is remarkably thin at present: a single property is listed, priced at £1,500,000, and it has not progressed to sold subject to contract. That gives the village an SSTC rate of 0.0% for this snapshot and an average asking price that is, in effect, simply the price of that one listing rather than a blended figure across a range of homes. The average days on market stands at 254, which is fewer than the Suffolk county average of 365 days, though with only one property to measure, this figure describes that specific listing’s history rather than a broad trend. Current conditions are classified as an Extreme Buyers’ Market, a reading that reflects the near total absence of competing stock and the lack of any progressed sale at this moment.
The defining trend in Oulton Broad right now is scarcity rather than direction. With just one property listed and none sold subject to contract, there is no recent run of transactions to read a price trend from in the live market. What stands out instead is the gap between that single asking price of £1,500,000 and the completed Land Registry sales on Planters Grove, which closed between £215,000 and £290,000 across 2022 and 2025. That gap suggests the current listing sits well above the price level the village has actually transacted at in recent years, and it is this disconnect, more than any momentum in either direction, that characterises the market at this snapshot.
Oulton Broad’s Extreme Buyers’ Market classification follows directly from a single live listing and an SSTC rate of 0.0%, which together mean no sale has progressed far enough in this snapshot to show buyer competition at work. A vendor marketing a home here right now has no comparable village activity to point to for reassurance, and a buyer weighing up that one listing is doing so without any rival interest on record to contend with at this point in time.
Momentum is difficult to characterise meaningfully from a single listing, and that in itself is the honest reading of the current data. The average days on market of 254 is fewer than the Suffolk average of 365 days by 111 days, but this reflects the age of one listing rather than a pattern across multiple sales. With zero properties having moved to sold subject to contract, there is no signal of acceleration, and the more accurate description is that the market has gone quiet rather than that it is cooling from a previously busier period.
The current conditions put negotiating leverage with the buyer. A single listing that has already spent 254 days on the market without progressing to sold subject to contract, combined with an SSTC rate of 0.0%, points to a seller without competing buyer interest recorded so far. A buyer approaching this property is not bidding against other offers in this snapshot, and the extended marketing period to date is itself a reasonable basis for an opening offer below the asking figure.
We have tracked Oulton Broad through busier periods than this, and the current count of a single live listing is genuinely unusual for the village. Our experience on the ground tells us that Oulton Broad’s water setting and its position close to Lowestoft tend to draw steady, rather than high volume, interest, so a quiet snapshot like this one is not entirely out of character, but it is still thinner than we would typically expect. What we find most instructive is setting the current £1,500,000 asking price against the Planters Grove sales we have followed through Land Registry records, which tell a very different story of what the village has actually achieved at completion in recent years.
The most telling figure in this snapshot is not the average asking price itself but its distance from completed sales. The single live listing at £1,500,000 sits far above every recorded Land Registry sale for Oulton Broad, where four completed transactions on Planters Grove ranged from £215,000 to £290,000 between April 2022 and July 2025, averaging approximately £256,750 across the three semi-detached and one detached property sold. That is a substantial gap, and it means the current asking average should not be treated as representative of typical value in the village. It reflects one property at one price point, while the Land Registry evidence remains the more reliable guide to what buyers here have actually been willing to pay.
Buying in Oulton Broad at this moment means looking at one option: the single property currently listed at £1,500,000, which has already been on the market for 254 days without going to sold subject to contract. There is no competing stock to compare it against directly within the village right now, so buyers need to do their own work pulling in evidence from completed sales, such as the Planters Grove transactions recorded by the Land Registry, to judge whether the asking price reflects genuine local value. With zero SSTC activity to suggest urgency from other buyers, there is little pressure to move quickly, and the extended time already spent on the market gives a reasonable opening for a considered, evidence-based offer.
Our considered view is that this snapshot captures an unusually quiet moment for Oulton Broad rather than a settled new normal. A single listing at £1,500,000 does not reflect the village’s recent transaction history, where Planters Grove sales have completed between £215,000 and £290,000 over the past few years. We would encourage anyone reading this figure in isolation to treat it with caution, and instead look at the completed sales evidence alongside the current listing before forming a view of what Oulton Broad genuinely offers at present. Thin markets like this one can shift quickly once a few more properties come forward.
An investor looking at Oulton Broad today is working with a market that currently has just one property listed, at £1,500,000, with an SSTC rate of 0.0% and 254 days already on the clock for that listing. That is not, on its own, enough data to judge rental or capital appreciation patterns in the village. The more useful reference points are the completed Land Registry sales on Planters Grove, ranging from £215,000 to £290,000 between 2022 and 2025, which give a clearer picture of achievable entry prices than the single current asking figure. The Extreme Buyers’ Market classification suggests any negotiation on the current listing would favour the buyer.
Recent completed sales in Oulton Broad, drawn from Land Registry records on Planters Grove, show a clear tilt towards semi-detached housing, with three of the four recorded sales being semi-detached properties (£215,000, £275,000 and £247,000) and one detached property completing at £290,000. That mix, three semi-detached to one detached, gives a more grounded sense of typical property type and price in the village than the current single live listing, whose type is not part of this snapshot’s figures but whose price of £1,500,000 sits well outside the range these completed sales suggest.
There is one property currently listed for sale in Oulton Broad, priced at £1,500,000, and it remains actively marketed rather than sold subject to contract. No other listings are recorded in this snapshot, which means the price range for current stock runs from £1,500,000 to £1,500,000, a single figure rather than a genuine spread. This is a notably quiet period for the village’s on-market supply compared with its typical pattern.
Land Registry records provide four completed sales for Oulton Broad, all on Planters Grove, and these are genuine finished transactions rather than current asking prices. Number 7 Planters Grove, a detached house, sold for £290,000 on 11 July 2025. Number 19 Planters Grove, semi-detached, sold for £215,000 on 15 August 2024. Number 29 Planters Grove, semi-detached, sold for £275,000 on 2 September 2022. Number 24 Planters Grove, also semi-detached, sold for £247,000 on 12 April 2022. These four sales, spanning more than three years, sit considerably below the current single live listing’s asking price of £1,500,000, and they remain the most reliable guide to what has actually completed in the village.
Oulton Broad’s current average asking price of £1,500,000 sits £695,127 above the Suffolk county average of £804,873, a difference of 86.4%, though this comparison is drawn from a single live listing rather than a representative sample of village stock. On timing, the village’s average of 254 days on market is fewer than the Suffolk average of 365 days by 111 days, suggesting this particular listing, despite its price, has not lingered as long as the typical Suffolk property, even allowing for the thinness of the current sample.
Set against its closest neighbours, Oulton Broad’s current £1,500,000 average is well above all three. Carlton Colville averages £236,500, a difference of £1,263,500, and currently shows a stronger SSTC rate of +30.0%, indicating considerably more buyer activity progressing to agreed sales there than in Oulton Broad’s single stalled listing. Lowestoft averages £1,136,250, narrowing the gap to £363,750, with an SSTC rate of +25.0%. Kessingland averages £995,000, a difference of £505,000, and shares Oulton Broad’s SSTC rate of 0.0%, suggesting both villages are currently experiencing a similarly quiet patch for progressed sales.
Oulton Broad sits on the edge of Lowestoft, built around the broad itself and the stretch of water where Nicholas Everitt Park meets the yacht station and Mutford Lock, the point where the inland broads connect through to the tidal River Waveney and on to the sea. It has long been a working and leisure waterway in equal measure, with rowing clubs, sailing and water skiing sharing the broad alongside the pleasure boats that still pass through the lock. Beyond the water, the village has its own train station on the East Suffolk line, a run of independent shops and pubs along the main road, and a settled residential character built up around streets like Planters Grove that sit back from the waterfront itself. It functions as a genuine community in its own right rather than simply an extension of Lowestoft, with its own schools and a pace of life that residents generally describe as calmer than the town proper.
Selling in Oulton Broad right now means entering a market with almost no competing stock, just one other listing is currently active in the village, at £1,500,000. That thinness can work in a vendor’s favour in terms of visibility, but it also means there is little recent on-market evidence to benchmark a new listing against, other than the completed Land Registry sales on Planters Grove, which closed between £215,000 and £290,000. Anyone pricing a home for sale in Oulton Broad at present would be wise to weigh both the current listing and that sold price history carefully, rather than relying on the asking price average alone, which this snapshot shows is based on a single property.
Working in Oulton Broad well means being honest about moments like this one, where the live market has thinned to a single listing, rather than inflating the picture to suit a sales pitch. It means knowing the Planters Grove sales history, the broad’s seasonal rhythms, and how the village compares with Carlton Colville, Lowestoft and Kessingland well enough to give a vendor or buyer a grounded view of where a property genuinely sits, not just where the headline average price suggests it sits. That kind of street level knowledge, built up over repeated snapshots rather than a single figure, is what we bring to every conversation about Oulton Broad.
The Ivybridge Collection covers Oulton Broad as part of its ongoing work along the Suffolk coast, following individual streets such as Planters Grove through completed Land Registry sales as well as tracking current listings as they appear. That continuity means we can put a quiet snapshot like this one, a single live listing, into proper context against the village’s actual sales history rather than reading it in isolation.
Anyone considering a property in Oulton Broad right now, whether buying or valuing a home to sell, should treat the gap between the current £1,500,000 asking price and the completed Land Registry sales on Planters Grove, which closed between £215,000 and £290,000, as the central fact to work from. A single listing cannot establish a market level on its own, and pricing decisions made purely against that figure risk being disconnected from what has actually transacted in the village over the past three years. Our professional guidance is to weight genuinely completed sales evidence more heavily than a thin current asking average whenever the two diverge this significantly, and to revisit that judgement as new stock comes to market.
This report on Oulton Broad reflects a snapshot taken on 27 September 2026, drawing on a single current listing, which has not progressed to sold subject to contract, alongside four completed Land Registry sales on Planters Grove dated between April 2022 and July 2025. Comparative figures are drawn from Carlton Colville, Lowestoft and Kessingland as the nearest neighbouring areas, and from the Suffolk county average calculated across 254 other areas in this tenant’s own coverage.
If you own a property in Oulton Broad and want an honest read on where it sits given a market this thin, just one other listing currently active and a sold price history on Planters Grove running from £215,000 to £290,000, we would welcome the conversation. Get in touch for a grounded valuation that weighs both the current listing and the completed sales evidence, rather than one figure in isolation.
For readers comparing Oulton Broad against its immediate neighbours, market reports are also available covering Carlton Colville, which currently shows a notably stronger SSTC rate of +30.0%, Lowestoft, which sits £363,750 below Oulton Broad’s current average, and Kessingland, which shares Oulton Broad’s SSTC rate of 0.0% at this snapshot.
