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Stowupland market report IP14, Stowmarket
The IP14 (Stowupland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 25,184 sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP14 (Stowmarket) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in IP14 (Stowmarket) came in at £280,000, out of 262 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £319,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 25,184 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
IP14 is the postcode district covering Stowmarket, Stowupland in Stowmarket. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where IP14 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 IP14 sells for
The 2026 median for IP14 is £280,000, taken from 262 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £319,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
IP14 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in IP14 have sold for about £3,250 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, IP14 runs 2% below it.
A typical IP14 home, priced year by year (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 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 262 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 862 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 762 |
| 2023 | £288,000 | £316,442 | 628 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 843 |
| 2021 | £275,800 | £349,198 | 1,098 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 633 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 727 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 797 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 765 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 771 |
| 2015 | £204,400 | £288,817 | 802 |
| 2014 | £178,500 | £253,233 | 845 |
| 2013 | £167,200 | £240,584 | 752 |
| 2012 | £162,000 | £238,444 | 661 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 647 |
| 2010 | £169,100 | £265,192 | 632 |
| 2009 | £156,900 | £252,218 | 669 |
| 2008 | £163,200 | £267,519 | 582 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 1,055 |
| 2006 | £157,000 | £272,532 | 1,049 |
| 2005 | £152,500 | £271,389 | 920 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 1,014 |
| 2003 | £134,000 | £246,860 | 859 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 940 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 921 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 758 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 974 |
| 1998 | £59,900 | £120,912 | 805 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 854 |
| 1996 | £51,200 | £107,979 | 720 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 577 |
In cash terms the typical IP14 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 153%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IP14 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−5.4%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £365,000 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, IP14
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 | £365,000 | 110 | 9,971 |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | 82 | 7,627 |
| Terraced | £230,000 | 53 | 6,073 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 17 | 1,513 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.9% |
| 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.
Sales activity in IP14
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 582 sales completed in IP14. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 940 sales a year before the financial crisis and 671 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 rental side of IP14
IP14 falls under Mid Suffolk, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £994 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £712 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,570 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £280,000 median purchase price, a rent of £994 a month (£11,928 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on IP14 (Stowupland)
How much did a house sell for in IP14 (Stowupland)?
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Is IP14 (Stowupland) a good place to buy a house?
The questions people bring to IP14 (Stowupland)
These are the recorded searches for the wider IP report family, answered with this page's own figures.
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comes up in the searches for this page. The current ONS figure for Mid Suffolk is £994 a month on average, which is a 4.3% gross yield at the local median; sizes and caveats are in the rent section below.
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.
Are IP14 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in IP14 now
Everything above is what homes in IP14 sold for. The live side of the market holds 187 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the IP14 median sold price.
31% 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.
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"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 IP14 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in IP: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IP area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
IP14 ranks 13 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.
Winners and losers across the IP area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside IP14, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP14 1 | £240,000 | 65 |
| IP14 2 | £285,000 | 37 |
| IP14 3 | £305,000 | 21 |
| IP14 4 | £290,000 | 45 |
| IP14 5 | £280,000 | 71 |
| IP14 6 | £385,000 | 23 |
How IP14 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the IP area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| IP6 | £268,800 | -6% |
Selling in IP14? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP14, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP14 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP14 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 IP14.
Go deeper
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See every individual IP14 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.