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Barrow market report IP29, Bury St. Edmunds
The IP29 (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: 4,384 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP29 (Bury St. Edmunds) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for IP29 (Bury St. Edmunds) is £412,500, from 53 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £469,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,384 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
IP29 is a postcode district covering Barrow, Shimpling in Bury St. Edmunds. 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 IP29 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 a home in IP29 sells for
Across 53 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IP29 home went for £412,500. The mean is £469,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in IP29
By floor space, homes in IP29 have sold for about £3,770 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 sits 45% above the national market.
IP29's median sold price, 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 | £412,500 | £412,500 | 53 |
| 2025 | £410,000 | £419,804 | 129 |
| 2024 | £407,500 | £433,256 | 116 |
| 2023 | £418,000 | £459,280 | 101 |
| 2022 | £419,000 | £491,325 | 102 |
| 2021 | £370,000 | £468,468 | 197 |
| 2020 | £357,500 | £463,864 | 130 |
| 2019 | £326,200 | £427,570 | 98 |
| 2018 | £373,000 | £497,216 | 107 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 142 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 150 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 155 |
| 2014 | £283,800 | £402,620 | 172 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 125 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 103 |
| 2011 | £237,500 | £358,534 | 134 |
| 2010 | £265,000 | £415,588 | 93 |
| 2009 | £237,500 | £381,783 | 114 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 88 |
| 2007 | £268,500 | £455,451 | 195 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 169 |
| 2005 | £231,000 | £411,087 | 171 |
| 2004 | £212,000 | £385,033 | 147 |
| 2003 | £195,200 | £359,606 | 152 |
| 2002 | £163,000 | £306,683 | 189 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 188 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 190 |
| 1999 | £108,000 | £215,238 | 159 |
| 1998 | £88,200 | £178,038 | 130 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 131 |
| 1996 | £74,500 | £157,117 | 126 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 128 |
In cash terms the typical IP29 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £412,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 153%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 17% 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 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 2000 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What IP29 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +0.6% | −1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.4% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 61% of the typed total. In 2021, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £475,000 against £319,000 for a flat, a 49% premium.
Median by property type, IP29
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 | £495,000 | 29 | 2,676 |
| Semi-detached | £370,000 | 17 | 1,151 |
| Terraced | £268,500 | 7 | 513 |
| Flats | £319,000 (2021) | – | 30 |
Sales activity in IP29
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
IP29 recorded 112 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 175 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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.
The shape of the IP29 market
This is a thin market: 112 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. This is detached-house territory: 49% of last year's sales were detached, which props the overall median well above the flat and terrace market underneath it. 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. Among the 33 measurable districts of its area, IP29 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around IP29
The local authority for IP29 is West Suffolk, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,177 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £813 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,848 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £412,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,177 a month (£14,124 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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 people ask about IP29 (Barrow)
How much did a house sell for in IP29 (Barrow)?
Are property prices falling in IP29 (Barrow)?
Is IP29 (Barrow) a good place to buy a house?
Will IP29 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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
Everything above is what homes in IP29 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 8 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 47% above the IP29 median sold price.
Set against 112 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 8 homes on the market here are roughly 4 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. Supply that short favours the seller; a sensibly priced home here does not sit for long.
Of everything listed here, 13% 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 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.
The IP29 sales calendar
Take the 645 IP29 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 11.0% of the total, April trails with 4.3%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 46 | 7.1% |
| February | 49 | 7.6% |
| March | 71 | 11.0% |
| April | 28 | 4.3% |
| May | 50 | 7.8% |
| June | 62 | 9.6% |
| July | 38 | 5.9% |
| August | 47 | 7.3% |
| September | 71 | 11.0% |
| October | 64 | 9.9% |
| November | 61 | 9.5% |
| December | 58 | 9.0% |
The price of an extra bedroom in IP
Real sold prices by size across the IP area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £270,000 | £303,250 (+12%) | £355,000 (+17%) | £442,550 (+25%) | £540,000 (+22%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £238,000 (+13%) | £268,500 (+13%) | £320,000 (+19%) | £400,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £161,000 | £205,000 (+27%) | £230,000 (+12%) | £280,000 (+22%) | £330,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £125,000 | £157,000 (+26%) | £211,000 (+34%) | £290,000 (+37%) | £402,500 (+39%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
IP29 ranks 5 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside IP29, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How IP29 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the IP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| IP15 | £546,500 | +26% |
| IP10 | £480,000 | +7% |
| IP29 (this report) | £412,500 | +11% |
| IP18 | £375,000 | -25% |
| IP13 | £366,000 | -4% |
| IP31 | £350,000 | +3% |
| IP5 | £347,500 | +14% |
| IP12 | £340,000 | -4% |
| IP30 | £340,000 | -3% |
| IP17 | £325,000 | +0% |
| IP7 | £320,000 | -6% |
| IP8 | £320,000 | +7% |
| IP9 | £320,000 | -2% |
| IP23 | £320,000 | -3% |
| IP21 | £308,200 | -4% |
| IP22 | £294,000 | -2% |
| IP20 | £285,000 | +2% |
| IP14 | £280,000 | +2% |
| IP32 | £280,000 | -8% |
| IP33 | £280,000 | -3% |
| IP28 | £278,800 | +5% |
| IP6 | £275,000 | -4% |
| IP19 | £272,500 | -4% |
| IP11 | £271,200 | +2% |
Selling a home in IP29? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP29, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP29 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP29 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IP29 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP29 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.