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Barrow market report IP29 5, Bury St. Edmunds
The standing IP29 5 (Barrow) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,321 HM Land Registry entries for IP29 5 (Bury St. Edmunds), 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 30 registered 2026 sales put the IP29 5 (Bury St. Edmunds) median at £450,000, up 25% on five years earlier, with a mean of £507,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,321 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
IP29 5 is one sector of IP29 (Bury St. Edmunds): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where IP29 5 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 IP29 5 homes really sell for
The IP29 5 median stands at £450,000 for 2026, built from 30 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £507,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in IP29 5
By floor space, homes in IP29 5 have sold for about £3,740 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, IP29 5 sits 58% above the national market.
The price of a typical IP29 5 home, 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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £395,000 | £404,446 | 71 |
| 2024 | £372,800 | £396,363 | 56 |
| 2023 | £356,800 | £392,036 | 54 |
| 2022 | £405,500 | £475,495 | 51 |
| 2021 | £360,500 | £456,440 | 122 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 66 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 51 |
| 2018 | £365,800 | £487,618 | 50 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 68 |
| 2016 | £347,000 | £485,456 | 96 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 96 |
| 2014 | £261,200 | £370,558 | 98 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 71 |
| 2012 | £232,500 | £342,211 | 56 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 71 |
| 2010 | £242,500 | £380,302 | 50 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 57 |
| 2008 | £242,500 | £397,509 | 40 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 111 |
| 2006 | £236,000 | £409,666 | 97 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 77 |
| 2004 | £208,200 | £378,132 | 88 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 83 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 81 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 103 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 95 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 89 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 65 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 60 |
| 1996 | £76,600 | £161,546 | 61 |
| 1995 | £73,500 | £159,778 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical IP29 5 home went from £73,500 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 182%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IP29 5 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 2003 (+42.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−12.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +13.9% | +11.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in IP29 5
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 30 IP29 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 92 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 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.
How IP29 5 trades
This is a thin market: 30 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 IP29 5
For renting purposes IP29 5 sits in West Suffolk. The ONS average private rent there is £1,177 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £813 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,848, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, West Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £1,177 a month is £14,124 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
Common questions on IP29 5 (Barrow)
How much did a house sell for in IP29 5 (Barrow)?
Are property prices falling in IP29 5 (Barrow)?
Is IP29 5 (Barrow) a good place to buy a house?
Where do IP29 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in IP29 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP29 district, not just IP29 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in IP
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IP area, 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. 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.
IP area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 4 | £390,000 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full IP29 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP29 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in IP29 5? 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 IP29 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP29 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP29 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working IP29 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim IP29 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IP29 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every IP29 5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.