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Elmswell market report IP30, Bury St. Edmunds
The IP30 (Elmswell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,924 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in IP30 (Bury St. Edmunds) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in IP30 (Bury St. Edmunds) sold for £330,000 in 2026, the median of 74 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £364,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,540 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,924 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 IP30 covering Elmswell, Cockfield, Woolpit sits in Bury St. Edmunds. 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 IP30 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.
The going rate for a home in IP30
Take the 74 registered 2026 sales in IP30 and the middle price, the median, is £330,000. The mean lands at £364,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in IP30
Measured by floor area, the last five years of IP30 sales average about £3,540 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IP30 16% above the country at large.
The price of a typical IP30 home, 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 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 74 |
| 2025 | £367,500 | £376,288 | 262 |
| 2024 | £382,500 | £406,676 | 285 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 291 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 368 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 379 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 223 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 254 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 250 |
| 2017 | £320,200 | £436,721 | 208 |
| 2016 | £280,000 | £391,723 | 201 |
| 2015 | £262,500 | £370,913 | 223 |
| 2014 | £247,500 | £351,122 | 249 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 195 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 197 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 194 |
| 2010 | £221,000 | £346,585 | 206 |
| 2009 | £207,000 | £332,754 | 185 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 147 |
| 2007 | £219,500 | £372,333 | 305 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 353 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 233 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 275 |
| 2003 | £162,000 | £298,443 | 265 |
| 2002 | £138,500 | £260,587 | 251 |
| 2001 | £128,000 | £246,073 | 250 |
| 2000 | £114,000 | £223,725 | 235 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 267 |
| 1998 | £84,500 | £170,569 | 285 |
| 1997 | £72,200 | £148,068 | 324 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 259 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 231 |
In cash terms the typical IP30 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 26% 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 IP30 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 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.9%). 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, 57% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £450,000 against £172,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, IP30
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 | £448,000 | 37 | 4,466 |
| Semi-detached | £271,000 | 20 | 2,025 |
| Terraced | £210,000 | 15 | 1,291 |
| Flats | £172,500 (2024) | – | 100 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.2% | −12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 173 IP30 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 256 sales a year recently, against 271 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of IP30
The local authority for IP30 is Mid Suffolk, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £994 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £712 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,570 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£994 a month is £11,928 a year, which against the £330,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the IP30 market
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. IP30 sits 8 of 33 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
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 Mid Suffolk at £994 a month, a gross yield of about 3.6% against the £330,000 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.
Asked and answered: IP30 (Elmswell)
Are property prices falling in IP30 (Elmswell)?
Is IP30 (Elmswell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP30 (Elmswell)?
Where do IP30 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
What is for sale in IP30 right now
Everything above is what homes in IP30 sold for. The live side of the market holds 73 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the IP30 median sold price.
24% 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.
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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 IP30 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the IP area. 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
IP30 ranks 27 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.
IP area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside IP30, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP30 0 | £340,000 | 16 |
| IP30 9 | £330,000 | 58 |
How IP30 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 (this report) | £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% |
| IP6 | £268,800 | -6% |
Selling in IP30? 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 IP30, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP30's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP30 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim IP30.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every IP30 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.