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North West Ipswich market report IP1 6, Ipswich
The IP1 6 (North West Ipswich) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,417 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in IP1 6 (Ipswich) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for IP1 6 (Ipswich) is £270,000, from 49 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £294,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,417 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
IP1 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP1 (Ipswich). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where IP1 6 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 6 sells for
In the IP1 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £270,000, from 49 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £294,400, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
IP1 6 prices by floor area
Per square metre, IP1 6 homes have averaged around £3,290 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, IP1 6 runs 5% below it.
A typical IP1 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 132 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 173 |
| 2023 | £311,000 | £341,713 | 149 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 201 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 162 |
| 2020 | £239,000 | £310,107 | 109 |
| 2019 | £222,800 | £292,037 | 114 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 164 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 140 |
| 2016 | £205,800 | £287,916 | 130 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 133 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 153 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 182 |
| 2012 | £156,500 | £230,348 | 126 |
| 2011 | £147,500 | £222,668 | 101 |
| 2010 | £141,800 | £222,379 | 106 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 91 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 83 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 167 |
| 2006 | £153,000 | £265,588 | 199 |
| 2005 | £146,800 | £261,245 | 126 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 151 |
| 2003 | £118,500 | £218,306 | 146 |
| 2002 | £102,500 | £192,853 | 132 |
| 2001 | £81,200 | £156,103 | 160 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 147 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 163 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 145 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 131 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 143 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical IP1 6 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 156%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IP1 6 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 2002 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.0%). 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) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in IP1 6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
IP1 6 recorded 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 141 sales a year recently, against 154 a year before 2008. 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 rental side of IP1 6
IP1 6 falls under Ipswich, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £270,000 median sold price, £989 a month is £11,868 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market IP1 6 is
This is a thin market: 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within IP1, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on IP1 6 (North West Ipswich)
How much did a house sell for in IP1 6 (North West Ipswich)?
Are property prices falling in IP1 6 (North West Ipswich)?
Is IP1 6 (North West Ipswich) a good place to buy a house?
Are IP1 6 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
On the market in IP1 today
The live side of the market holds 170 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP1 district, not just IP1 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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.
Bedroom by bedroom: IP prices by size
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 4 | £222,500 | 44 |
| IP1 5 | £228,500 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full IP1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in IP1 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP1 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP1 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP1 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working IP1 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim IP1 6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IP1 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every IP1 6 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.