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Melton market report IP12 4, Woodbridge
The IP12 4 (Melton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,147 registered sales in IP12 4 (Woodbridge) 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. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical IP12 4 (Woodbridge) home changed hands for £425,000 in 2026 (median of 61 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £433,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,290 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,147 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
IP12 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP12 (Woodbridge). 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 IP12 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.
Today's IP12 4 prices, from the sold record
61 sales were registered in IP12 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £425,000. The mean works out at £433,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in IP12 4
A square metre of IP12 4 home has cost about £4,290 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP12 4 trades 49% above the country as a whole.
IP12 4's median sold price, 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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £405,000 | £414,685 | 131 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 115 |
| 2023 | £465,000 | £510,921 | 104 |
| 2022 | £417,500 | £489,566 | 123 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 201 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 129 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 87 |
| 2018 | £364,000 | £485,219 | 115 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 141 |
| 2016 | £344,000 | £481,259 | 175 |
| 2015 | £282,500 | £399,173 | 179 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 125 |
| 2013 | £272,500 | £392,100 | 120 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 103 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 137 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 127 |
| 2009 | £220,500 | £354,456 | 112 |
| 2008 | £268,000 | £439,309 | 105 |
| 2007 | £249,000 | £422,373 | 129 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 145 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 131 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 146 |
| 2003 | £183,000 | £337,130 | 115 |
| 2002 | £159,700 | £300,474 | 128 |
| 2001 | £147,500 | £283,561 | 133 |
| 2000 | £116,500 | £228,631 | 122 |
| 1999 | £122,600 | £244,335 | 204 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 122 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 152 |
| 1996 | £74,500 | £157,117 | 138 |
| 1995 | £68,200 | £148,256 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical IP12 4 home went from £68,200 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 187%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IP12 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 1999 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.7%). 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 year (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.2% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 61 sales completed in IP12 4. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 107 sales a year recently, against 131 a year before 2008. 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.
What kind of market IP12 4 is
Against the IP12 district median, IP12 4 sits 25% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around IP12 4
The local authority for IP12 4 is East Suffolk, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £834 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £597 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,332 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£834 a month is £10,008 a year, which against the £425,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.4%. 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.
IP12 4 (Melton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in IP12 4 (Melton)?
Is IP12 4 (Melton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP12 4 (Melton)?
Will IP12 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 IP12 today
The live side of the market holds 83 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP12 district, not just IP12 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Tunstall Green, Tunstall, Woodbridge, Suffolk
- Oak Hill, Hollesley, Suffolk
- Mayhew Road, Rendlesham, Woodbridge, Suffolk
"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 IP12 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
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 | £270,000 | £303,250 (+12%) | £355,000 (+17%) | £442,550 (+25%) | £540,000 (+22%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £238,000 (+13%) | £268,500 (+13%) | £320,000 (+19%) | £400,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £161,000 | £205,000 (+27%) | £230,000 (+12%) | £280,000 (+22%) | £330,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £125,000 | £157,000 (+26%) | £211,000 (+34%) | £290,000 (+37%) | £402,500 (+39%) |
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
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 IP12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are IP12's other sectors, each with its own report:
Zoom out to the full IP12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in IP12 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP12 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP12 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP12 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about IP12 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every IP12 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.