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South East Ipswich market report IP3, Ipswich
The IP3 (South East Ipswich) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 18,647 HM Land Registry entries for IP3 (Ipswich), 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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in IP3 (Ipswich) sold for £242,000 in 2026, the median of 181 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £255,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,990 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 18,647 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district IP3 covering South East Ipswich, Ravenswood sits in Ipswich. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where IP3 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.
IP3 sold prices: where the market stands
In the IP3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £242,000, from 181 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £255,400, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in IP3
A square metre of IP3 home has cost about £2,990 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP3 trades 15% below the country as a whole.
A typical IP3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £242,000 | £242,000 | 181 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 444 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 389 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 396 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 471 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 586 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 423 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 509 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 539 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 576 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 581 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 584 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 601 |
| 2013 | £143,900 | £207,058 | 478 |
| 2012 | £144,200 | £212,244 | 456 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 422 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 379 |
| 2009 | £127,000 | £204,154 | 416 |
| 2008 | £132,500 | £217,195 | 481 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 1,112 |
| 2006 | £148,500 | £257,777 | 1,119 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 855 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 881 |
| 2003 | £111,800 | £205,963 | 846 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 865 |
| 2001 | £76,000 | £146,106 | 742 |
| 2000 | £68,500 | £134,431 | 661 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 605 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 506 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 584 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 530 |
| 1995 | £45,300 | £98,475 | 429 |
In cash terms the typical IP3 home went from £45,300 in 1995 to £242,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 146%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IP3 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 (+22.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.6%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £360,000 against £127,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, IP3
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 | £360,000 | 34 | 3,418 |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | 81 | 8,084 |
| Terraced | £210,000 | 39 | 4,260 |
| Flats | £127,000 | 27 | 2,885 |
What IP3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in IP3
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
IP3 recorded 373 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 885 sales a year before the financial crisis and 376 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.
What kind of market IP3 is
In its area's price order IP3 comes 29 of 33, towards the cheaper end of the table.
The rental side of IP3
IP3 falls under Ipswich, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £989 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £739 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,465 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Ipswich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £242,000 median purchase price, a rent of £989 a month (£11,868 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
Common questions on IP3 (South East Ipswich)
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Searches that land here, answered
These are the recorded searches for the wider IP report family, answered with this page's own figures.
For searches like ipswich rental market
: the ONS puts the average private rent in Ipswich at £989 a month, a gross yield of about 4.9% against the £242,000 median. The full rent section below breaks it down by size.
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.
Where do IP3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
IP3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in IP3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 86 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the IP3 median sold price.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Prentice Way, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3
- Woodrush Road, Purdis Farm, Ipswich
- Nacton Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3
"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 IP3 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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.
| 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
IP3 ranks 11 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.
Winners and losers across the IP area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside IP3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IP3 0 | £207,500 | 53 |
| IP3 8 | £265,000 | 75 |
| IP3 9 | £245,000 | 53 |
How IP3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the IP area, and IP3 itself, which ranks 29 of 33 by median price:
| 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 | £280,000 | +0% |
| IP33 | £280,000 | -3% |
| IP28 | £276,900 | +4% |
| IP32 | £275,000 | -10% |
| IP11 | £271,200 | +2% |
| IP16 | £269,000 | +0% |
| IP3 (this report) | £242,000 | +3% |
Selling in IP3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IP3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every IP3 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.