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Mendham market report IP20, Harleston
The IP20 (Mendham) 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: 4,965 sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP20 (Harleston) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in IP20 (Harleston) came in at £280,000, out of 48 registered, up 0% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £297,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,965 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
IP20 is a postcode district covering Harleston, Mendham, Withersdale Street in Harleston. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where IP20 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 buyers actually paid in IP20
The 2026 median for IP20 is £280,000, taken from 48 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £297,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in IP20
The last five years of sales put IP20 at roughly £3,250 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP20 trades 2% below the country as a whole.
A typical IP20 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 132 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 136 |
| 2023 | £301,200 | £330,945 | 114 |
| 2022 | £287,500 | £337,127 | 132 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 192 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 121 |
| 2019 | £236,200 | £309,602 | 166 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 135 |
| 2017 | £227,000 | £309,605 | 147 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 191 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 171 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 179 |
| 2013 | £162,200 | £233,390 | 164 |
| 2012 | £168,700 | £248,305 | 140 |
| 2011 | £162,500 | £245,313 | 144 |
| 2010 | £161,500 | £253,274 | 134 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 155 |
| 2008 | £162,500 | £266,372 | 144 |
| 2007 | £172,000 | £291,760 | 225 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 205 |
| 2005 | £166,500 | £296,303 | 136 |
| 2004 | £139,500 | £253,359 | 172 |
| 2003 | £129,800 | £239,123 | 175 |
| 2002 | £112,000 | £210,727 | 176 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 178 |
| 2000 | £69,200 | £135,805 | 160 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 196 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 171 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 170 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 128 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 128 |
In cash terms the typical IP20 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 115%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IP20 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 (+29.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−16.7%). 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, 47% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £350,000 against £136,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, IP20
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 | £317,500 | 23 | 2,307 |
| Semi-detached | £292,500 | 12 | 1,531 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 11 | 872 |
| Flats | £136,500 (2025) | – | 233 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.7% | +1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
IP20 recorded 106 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 178 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 a year over the last five. 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.
How IP20 trades
Only 106 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IP20 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
The rental side of IP20
The local authority for IP20 is South Norfolk, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £981 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £696 a month here against £1,574 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Norfolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £280,000 median sold price, £981 a month is £11,772 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: IP20 (Mendham)
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Searches that land here, answered
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comes up in the searches for this page. The current ONS figure for South Norfolk is £981 a month on average, which is a 4.2% 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 IP20 prices heading up or down?
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.
IP20's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in IP20 sold for. The live side of the market holds 106 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the IP20 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 IP20 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
Real sold prices by size across the IP area, straight 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
IP20 ranks 18 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.
Five-year change in the median, IP area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside IP20, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IP20 0 | £350,000 | 13 |
| IP20 9 | £265,000 | 35 |
How IP20 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 | £280,000 | +2% |
| IP20 (this report) | £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 a home in IP20? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IP20, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP20's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP20 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every IP20 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.