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North West Ipswich market report IP1, Ipswich
The IP1 (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: 20,940 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP1 (Ipswich) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical IP1 (Ipswich) home changed hands for £235,000 in 2026 (median of 175 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £248,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,940 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district IP1 covering North West Ipswich, Akenham sits in Ipswich. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where IP1 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.
Today's IP1 prices, from the sold record
Across 175 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IP1 home went for £235,000. The mean is £248,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
IP1 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in IP1 have sold for about £2,880 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP1 trades 18% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical IP1 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 175 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 453 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 518 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 473 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 658 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 691 |
| 2020 | £207,800 | £269,625 | 490 |
| 2019 | £197,200 | £258,482 | 572 |
| 2018 | £193,000 | £257,273 | 603 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 599 |
| 2016 | £160,500 | £224,541 | 716 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 628 |
| 2014 | £148,000 | £209,964 | 669 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 636 |
| 2012 | £128,000 | £188,400 | 525 |
| 2011 | £123,400 | £186,287 | 504 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 460 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 447 |
| 2008 | £134,000 | £219,654 | 467 |
| 2007 | £135,200 | £229,337 | 1,022 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 1,005 |
| 2005 | £118,000 | £209,992 | 909 |
| 2004 | £116,500 | £211,587 | 863 |
| 2003 | £97,000 | £178,698 | 848 |
| 2002 | £83,500 | £157,105 | 872 |
| 2001 | £73,200 | £140,723 | 984 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 780 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 896 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 680 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 688 |
| 1996 | £41,100 | £86,678 | 614 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 495 |
In cash terms the typical IP1 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 170%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP1 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 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £450,000 against £99,500 for a flat, 4.5 times the price.
Median by property type, IP1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £450,000 | 23 | 2,664 |
| Semi-detached | £259,000 | 80 | 7,728 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 50 | 7,013 |
| Flats | £99,500 | 22 | 3,535 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in IP1
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 354 sales completed in IP1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 910 sales a year before the financial crisis and 455 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around IP1
IP1 falls under Ipswich, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £989 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £739 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,465 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Ipswich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £235,000 median sold price, £989 a month is £11,868 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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 is
In its area's price order IP1 comes 31 of 33, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What people search before landing on IP1 (North West Ipswich)
These are the recorded searches for the wider IP report family, answered with this page's own figures.
For searches like ipswich rental market
: the ONS puts the average private rent in Ipswich at £989 a month, a gross yield of about 5.1% against the £235,000 median. The full rent section below breaks it down by size.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Common questions on IP1 (North West Ipswich)
Are property prices falling in IP1 (North West Ipswich)?
Is IP1 (North West Ipswich) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP1 (North West Ipswich)?
Will IP1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in IP1 right now
Everything above is what homes in IP1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 170 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the IP1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every IP1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: IP prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IP area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
IP1 ranks 6 of 33 in the IP area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
IP area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside IP1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| IP1 6 | £270,000 | 49 |
How IP1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the IP area, and IP1 itself, which ranks 31 of 33 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| IP15 | £543,200 | +25% |
| IP10 | £480,000 | +7% |
| IP29 | £418,800 | +13% |
| IP13 | £370,000 | -3% |
| IP5 | £345,000 | +13% |
| IP31 | £343,500 | +1% |
| IP18 | £335,000 | -33% |
| IP30 | £330,000 | -6% |
| IP12 | £327,500 | -8% |
| IP8 | £325,000 | +8% |
| IP9 | £325,000 | -1% |
| IP17 | £325,000 | +0% |
| IP7 | £320,000 | -6% |
| IP21 | £312,800 | -3% |
| IP23 | £307,500 | -7% |
| IP22 | £294,000 | -2% |
| IP14 | £280,000 | +2% |
| IP20 | £280,000 | +0% |
| IP33 | £280,000 | -3% |
| IP28 | £276,900 | +4% |
| IP32 | £275,000 | -10% |
| IP11 | £271,200 | +2% |
| IP16 | £269,000 | +0% |
| IP1 (this report) | £235,000 | +9% |
Before you sell in IP1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP1, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim IP1.
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Two maps carry on from here: every IP1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.