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North West Ipswich market report IP1 5, Ipswich
The IP1 5 (North West Ipswich) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,821 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP1 5 (Ipswich) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in IP1 5 (Ipswich) sold for £228,500 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £226,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,821 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like IP1 5 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 5 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 buyers actually paid in IP1 5
The IP1 5 median stands at £228,500 for 2026, built from 42 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £226,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in IP1 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of IP1 5 sales average about £2,800 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, IP1 5 runs 20% below it.
The price of a typical IP1 5 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 | £228,500 | £228,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 99 |
| 2024 | £216,200 | £229,865 | 142 |
| 2023 | £208,200 | £228,761 | 110 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 129 |
| 2021 | £202,500 | £256,391 | 159 |
| 2020 | £186,200 | £241,598 | 156 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 171 |
| 2018 | £177,000 | £235,944 | 143 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 147 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 142 |
| 2015 | £142,800 | £201,776 | 140 |
| 2014 | £134,000 | £190,102 | 161 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 109 |
| 2012 | £122,500 | £180,305 | 102 |
| 2011 | £117,800 | £177,833 | 102 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 109 |
| 2009 | £116,000 | £186,471 | 126 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 119 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 324 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 270 |
| 2005 | £117,500 | £209,103 | 192 |
| 2004 | £111,000 | £201,598 | 186 |
| 2003 | £92,500 | £170,407 | 189 |
| 2002 | £79,500 | £149,579 | 169 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 206 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 162 |
| 1999 | £53,800 | £107,221 | 196 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 144 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 165 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 118 |
| 1995 | £38,700 | £84,128 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical IP1 5 home went from £38,700 in 1995 to £228,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP1 5 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 1999 (+25.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.8% | +6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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 5 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 212 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the IP1 5 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IP1 5 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 5
The local authority for IP1 5 is Ipswich, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £989 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £739 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,465, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £228,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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 5 (North West Ipswich)
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Where do IP1 5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in IP: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the IP area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the IP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
IP area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in IP1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of IP1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP1 1 | £120,500 | 3 |
| IP1 2 | £128,000 | 23 |
| IP1 3 | £248,500 | 14 |
| IP1 4 | £222,500 | 44 |
| 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.
Selling in IP1 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at IP1 5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working IP1 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim IP1 5.
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Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about IP1 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP1 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.