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Aldringham market report IP16 4, Leiston
The IP16 4 (Aldringham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,002 HM Land Registry entries for IP16 4 (Leiston), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for IP16 4 (Leiston) is £269,000, from 33 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier; the mean is £290,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,130 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,002 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like IP16 4 is a single group of streets within IP16 (Leiston), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where IP16 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.
The going rate for a home in IP16 4
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IP16 4 home went for £269,000. The mean is £290,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
IP16 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of IP16 4 sales average about £3,130 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IP16 4 6% below the country at large.
A typical IP16 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £269,000 | £269,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 93 |
| 2024 | £233,000 | £247,727 | 99 |
| 2023 | £256,500 | £281,831 | 96 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 179 |
| 2021 | £269,000 | £340,589 | 230 |
| 2020 | £228,000 | £295,835 | 131 |
| 2019 | £203,800 | £267,133 | 134 |
| 2018 | £186,000 | £247,942 | 103 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 135 |
| 2016 | £174,200 | £243,708 | 177 |
| 2015 | £173,000 | £244,449 | 126 |
| 2014 | £156,200 | £221,597 | 106 |
| 2013 | £138,000 | £198,568 | 93 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 89 |
| 2011 | £168,700 | £254,672 | 100 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 108 |
| 2009 | £139,500 | £224,247 | 90 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 86 |
| 2007 | £159,000 | £269,708 | 120 |
| 2006 | £139,200 | £241,633 | 173 |
| 2005 | £126,500 | £225,119 | 150 |
| 2004 | £137,200 | £249,182 | 143 |
| 2003 | £93,200 | £171,697 | 120 |
| 2002 | £80,600 | £151,648 | 160 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 153 |
| 2000 | £52,500 | £103,031 | 140 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 138 |
| 1998 | £45,500 | £91,845 | 154 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 140 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 111 |
| 1995 | £40,900 | £88,910 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical IP16 4 home went from £40,900 in 1995 to £269,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 203%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP16 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 2004 (+47.2% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−14.4%). 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 years (since 2025) | +12.1% | +9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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 IP16 4
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in IP16 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 145 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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.
What homes rent for around IP16 4
IP16 4 falls under East Suffolk, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £834 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £597 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,332, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £269,000 median purchase price, a rent of £834 a month (£10,008 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
What kind of market IP16 4 is
This is a thin market: 33 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: IP16 4 (Aldringham)
Are property prices falling in IP16 4 (Aldringham)?
Is IP16 4 (Aldringham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP16 4 (Aldringham)?
Will IP16 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 IP16 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 7 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP16 district, not just IP16 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every IP16 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in IP
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the IP area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the IP area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full IP16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP16 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in IP16 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP16 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP16 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP16 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim IP16 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IP16 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP16 4 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.
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.