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North West Ipswich market report IP1 4, Ipswich
The standing IP1 4 (North West Ipswich) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,361 registered sales in IP1 4 (Ipswich) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 44 registered 2026 sales put the IP1 4 (Ipswich) median at £222,500, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £257,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,361 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like IP1 4 is a single group of streets within IP1 (Ipswich), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where IP1 4 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.
What a home in IP1 4 sells for
The 2026 median for IP1 4 is £222,500, taken from 44 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £257,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in IP1 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in IP1 4 costs about £2,880 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IP1 4 22% below the country at large.
The price of a typical IP1 4 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £222,500 | £222,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £243,800 | £249,630 | 112 |
| 2024 | £256,800 | £273,031 | 104 |
| 2023 | £247,500 | £271,942 | 100 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 133 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 178 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 131 |
| 2019 | £205,500 | £269,361 | 144 |
| 2018 | £199,500 | £265,937 | 142 |
| 2017 | £181,800 | £247,957 | 144 |
| 2016 | £181,000 | £253,221 | 194 |
| 2015 | £162,000 | £228,906 | 169 |
| 2014 | £146,000 | £207,127 | 165 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 156 |
| 2012 | £128,000 | £188,400 | 147 |
| 2011 | £137,500 | £207,572 | 131 |
| 2010 | £133,000 | £208,578 | 112 |
| 2009 | £127,500 | £204,957 | 133 |
| 2008 | £134,000 | £219,654 | 117 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 242 |
| 2006 | £127,800 | £221,844 | 224 |
| 2005 | £119,000 | £211,772 | 216 |
| 2004 | £119,000 | £216,127 | 210 |
| 2003 | £97,000 | £178,698 | 218 |
| 2002 | £87,000 | £163,690 | 263 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 308 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 197 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 244 |
| 1998 | £44,800 | £90,432 | 188 |
| 1997 | £41,800 | £85,723 | 164 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 184 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical IP1 4 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £222,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 150%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IP1 4 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 2001 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.7% | −10.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
IP1 4 recorded 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 235 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How IP1 4 trades
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IP1 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around IP1 4
The local authority for IP1 4 is Ipswich, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £989 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £739 a month here against £1,465 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Ipswich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£989 a month is £11,868 a year, which against the £222,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: IP1 4 (North West Ipswich)
Is IP1 4 (North West Ipswich) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP1 4 (North West Ipswich)?
Are property prices falling in IP1 4 (North West Ipswich)?
Will IP1 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
IP1's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 170 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP1 district, not just IP1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% 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.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every IP1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in IP
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the IP area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £297,500 | £400,000 (+34%) | £587,000 (+47%) | £800,000 (+36%) |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | £252,000 (+17%) | £295,000 (+17%) | £380,750 (+29%) | £527,500 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £195,000 | £220,000 (+13%) | £260,000 (+18%) | £337,500 (+30%) | £510,000 (+51%) |
| Flat | £136,750 | £180,000 (+32%) | £290,000 (+61%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the IP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the IP area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in IP1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of IP1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP1 1 | £120,500 | 3 |
| IP1 2 | £128,000 | 23 |
| IP1 3 | £248,500 | 14 |
| IP1 5 | £228,500 | 42 |
| IP1 6 | £270,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full IP1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in IP1 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IP1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim IP1 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IP1 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every IP1 4 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.