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Barrow market report IP29 4, Bury St. Edmunds
The IP29 4 (Barrow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,050 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP29 4 (Bury St. Edmunds) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in IP29 4 (Bury St. Edmunds) came in at £390,000, out of 12 registered, down 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £366,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,050 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
IP29 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP29 (Bury St. Edmunds). 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 IP29 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 IP29 4 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for IP29 4 is £390,000, taken from 12 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £366,000, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
What a square metre costs in IP29 4
The last five years of sales put IP29 4 at roughly £3,800 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IP29 4 37% above the country at large.
A typical IP29 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 12 |
| 2025 | £466,200 | £477,348 | 56 |
| 2024 | £428,500 | £455,584 | 60 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 47 |
| 2022 | £449,000 | £526,504 | 51 |
| 2021 | £407,000 | £515,315 | 75 |
| 2020 | £382,500 | £496,302 | 64 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 47 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 57 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 74 |
| 2016 | £307,200 | £429,776 | 54 |
| 2015 | £317,500 | £448,628 | 59 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 74 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 54 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 47 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 63 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 43 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 57 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 48 |
| 2007 | £295,000 | £500,402 | 84 |
| 2006 | £223,000 | £387,100 | 72 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 94 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 59 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 69 |
| 2002 | £181,200 | £340,926 | 108 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 85 |
| 2000 | £136,500 | £267,881 | 95 |
| 1999 | £106,800 | £212,847 | 70 |
| 1998 | £87,000 | £175,616 | 65 |
| 1997 | £84,000 | £172,267 | 71 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 65 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical IP29 4 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 139%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 26% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IP29 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 2007 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−22.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What IP29 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.3% | −18.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.8% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
IP29 4 recorded 12 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 83 sales a year before the financial crisis and 45 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.
What tenants pay around IP29 4
The local authority for IP29 4 is Babergh, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £972 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £722 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,612, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Babergh
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £390,000 median sold price, £972 a month is £11,664 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.
How IP29 4 trades
Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IP29 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Common questions on IP29 4 (Barrow)
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What happens to IP29 4 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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.
IP29's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 22 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP29 district, not just IP29 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 35 The Glebe, Lawshall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
- Stirling Close, Chedburgh, Bury St. Edmunds
- Meadow Way, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds, IP29, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds
"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 IP29 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
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, IP area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in IP29
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of IP29, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP29 5 | £450,000 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full IP29 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP29 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in IP29 4? 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 IP29 4'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim IP29 4.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual IP29 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.