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Easton Bavents market report IP18 6, Southwold

The IP18 6 (Easton Bavents) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,821 HM Land Registry entries for IP18 6 (Southwold), 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.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in IP18 6 (Southwold) came in at £335,000, out of 31 registered, down 33% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £484,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,590 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,821 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

IP18 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP18 (Southwold). 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 IP18 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.

£335,000typical sale, 2026
£5,590/m²average price per m², last 5 years
-33%five-year change (cash)
31homes sold, last 12 months
3.0%gross yield, estimated

What IP18 6 homes really sell for

Across 31 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IP18 6 home went for £335,000. The mean is £484,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.

Price per square metre in IP18 6

By floor space, homes in IP18 6 have sold for about £5,590 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 IP18 6 trades 18% above the country as a whole.

A typical IP18 6 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.

Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
£250k£500k£750k£1.00M1995200020052010201520202026 1995: £70,800 at the time · £153,908 in today's money · 106 sales1996: £75,000 at the time · £158,172 in today's money · 140 sales1997: £80,000 at the time · £164,064 in today's money · 153 sales1998: £83,500 at the time · £168,551 in today's money · 119 sales1999: £110,000 at the time · £219,224 in today's money · 155 sales2000: £140,000 at the time · £274,750 in today's money · 111 sales2001: £150,000 at the time · £288,367 in today's money · 133 sales2002: £177,500 at the time · £333,965 in today's money · 134 sales2003: £216,000 at the time · £397,924 in today's money · 104 sales2004: £237,500 at the time · £431,346 in today's money · 140 sales2005: £241,000 at the time · £428,883 in today's money · 150 sales2006: £277,500 at the time · £481,705 in today's money · 149 sales2007: £285,000 at the time · £483,439 in today's money · 163 sales2008: £305,000 at the time · £499,959 in today's money · 102 sales2009: £275,000 at the time · £442,065 in today's money · 129 sales2010: £310,000 at the time · £486,160 in today's money · 117 sales2011: £370,000 at the time · £558,558 in today's money · 114 sales2012: £297,500 at the time · £437,883 in today's money · 106 sales2013: £330,500 at the time · £475,557 in today's money · 134 sales2014: £317,500 at the time · £450,429 in today's money · 132 sales2015: £350,000 at the time · £494,550 in today's money · 123 sales2016: £360,000 at the time · £503,644 in today's money · 124 sales2017: £347,500 at the time · £473,955 in today's money · 110 sales2018: £376,500 at the time · £501,882 in today's money · 111 sales2019: £450,000 at the time · £589,842 in today's money · 111 sales2020: £497,500 at the time · £645,517 in today's money · 130 sales2021: £501,200 at the time · £634,584 in today's money · 136 sales2022: £539,100 at the time · £632,156 in today's money · 110 sales2023: £565,500 at the time · £621,346 in today's money · 78 sales2024: £500,000 at the time · £531,603 in today's money · 79 sales2025: £480,000 at the time · £491,478 in today's money · 87 sales2026: £335,000 at the time · £335,000 in today's money · 31 sales
See this chart as a table
YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2026£335,000£335,00031
2025£480,000£491,47887
2024£500,000£531,60379
2023£565,500£621,34678
2022£539,100£632,156110
2021£501,200£634,584136
2020£497,500£645,517130
2019£450,000£589,842111
2018£376,500£501,882111
2017£347,500£473,955110
2016£360,000£503,644124
2015£350,000£494,550123
2014£317,500£450,429132
2013£330,500£475,557134
2012£297,500£437,883106
2011£370,000£558,558114
2010£310,000£486,160117
2009£275,000£442,065129
2008£305,000£499,959102
2007£285,000£483,439163
2006£277,500£481,705149
2005£241,000£428,883150
2004£237,500£431,346140
2003£216,000£397,924104
2002£177,500£333,965134
2001£150,000£288,367133
2000£140,000£274,750111
1999£110,000£219,224155
1998£83,500£168,551119
1997£80,000£164,064153
1996£75,000£158,172140
1995£70,800£153,908106

In cash terms the typical IP18 6 home went from £70,800 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 118%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 48% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

Year-on-year change in the IP18 6 median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+50% -50% 0% 1996 · +5.9% on the year before1997 · +6.7% on the year before1998 · +4.4% on the year before1999 · +31.7% on the year before2000 · +27.3% on the year before2001 · +7.1% on the year before2002 · +18.3% on the year before2003 · +21.7% on the year before2004 · +10.0% on the year before2005 · +1.5% on the year before2006 · +15.1% on the year before2007 · +2.7% on the year before2008 · +7.0% on the year before2009 · −9.8% on the year before2010 · +12.7% on the year before2011 · +19.4% on the year before2012 · −19.6% on the year before2013 · +11.1% on the year before2014 · −3.9% on the year before2015 · +10.2% on the year before2016 · +2.9% on the year before2017 · −3.5% on the year before2018 · +8.3% on the year before2019 · +19.5% on the year before2020 · +10.6% on the year before2021 · +0.7% on the year before2022 · +7.6% on the year before2023 · +4.9% on the year before2024 · −11.6% on the year before2025 · −4.0% on the year before2026 · −30.2% on the year before200020052010201520202026

The strongest year on record here is 1999 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−30.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)−30.2%−31.8%
5 years (since 2021)−7.7%−12.0%
10 years (since 2016)−0.7%−4.0%
20 years (since 2006)+0.9%−1.8%

Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.

The turnover behind the prices

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.

50100150200 1995: 106 sales1996: 140 sales1997: 153 sales1998: 119 sales1999: 155 sales2000: 111 sales2001: 133 sales2002: 134 sales2003: 104 sales2004: 140 sales2005: 150 sales2006: 149 sales2007: 163 sales2008: 102 sales2009: 129 sales2010: 117 sales2011: 114 sales2012: 106 sales2013: 134 sales2014: 132 sales2015: 123 sales2016: 124 sales2017: 110 sales2018: 111 sales2019: 111 sales2020: 130 sales2021: 136 sales2022: 110 sales2023: 78 sales2024: 79 sales2025: 87 sales2026: 31 sales1995200020052010201520202026

IP18 6 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 kind of market IP18 6 is

This is a thin market: 31 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.

The rental side of IP18 6

IP18 6 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.

1 bed: £597 a month£5971 bed2 bed: £785 a month£7852 bed3 bed: £931 a month£9313 bed4+ bed: £1,332 a month£1,3324+ bed

Set against the £335,000 median sold price, £834 a month is £10,008 a year, a gross yield of 3.0%: 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.

IP18 6 (Easton Bavents): the questions that come up

How much did a house sell for in IP18 6 (Easton Bavents)?
Land Registry recorded 31 sales in IP18 6 (Easton Bavents) in 2026, with a median sold price of £335,000. Every one is free to view at its exact address on the HomesIndex map.
Are property prices falling in IP18 6 (Easton Bavents)?
In IP18 6 (Easton Bavents) the median moved down 30% year on year; over five years it is down 33%. The full year-by-year table since 1995 is on this page.
Is IP18 6 (Easton Bavents) a good place to buy a house?
IP18 6 (Easton Bavents) sold prices are down 33% over five years. This report weighs growth, affordability and volume against neighbouring areas using only recorded sales.

Will IP18 6 prices rise from here?

Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 33% over five years in cash but down 47% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.

What is for sale in IP18 right now

The live side of the market holds 70 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.

These cover the whole IP18 district, not just IP18 6: live asking prices are collected per district.

£440,000Typical asking price now (IP18 district)
15 below what sold nearby23 in line with nearby sales14 above nearby sales16 well above nearby sales

Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.

The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.

See every IP18 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

Real sold prices by size across the IP area, straight 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.

Type1 bed2 bed3 bed4 bed5 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the IP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Zoom out to the full IP18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP18 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in IP18 6? Start from the sold record

Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at IP18 6's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.

For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim IP18 6.

Keep digging

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IP18 6. Free after a one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every IP18 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.

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.