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Ixworth market report IP31 1, Bury St. Edmunds
The standing IP31 1 (Ixworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,022 registered sales in IP31 1 (Bury St. Edmunds) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in IP31 1 (Bury St. Edmunds) came in at £335,000, out of 20 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £354,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,410 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,022 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
IP31 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP31 (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 IP31 1 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 IP31 1 sells for
The IP31 1 median stands at £335,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £354,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
IP31 1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put IP31 1 at roughly £3,410 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, IP31 1 sits 18% above the national market.
A typical IP31 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £357,500 | £366,049 | 45 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 43 |
| 2023 | £338,500 | £371,929 | 38 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 77 |
| 2021 | £337,500 | £427,319 | 80 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 44 |
| 2019 | £322,500 | £422,720 | 54 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 51 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 70 |
| 2016 | £258,000 | £360,945 | 80 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 89 |
| 2014 | £224,000 | £317,783 | 85 |
| 2013 | £229,000 | £329,508 | 50 |
| 2012 | £184,500 | £271,561 | 41 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 51 |
| 2010 | £229,000 | £359,131 | 43 |
| 2009 | £202,500 | £325,520 | 42 |
| 2008 | £188,500 | £308,991 | 38 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 90 |
| 2006 | £212,500 | £368,873 | 96 |
| 2005 | £167,200 | £297,549 | 84 |
| 2004 | £197,500 | £358,699 | 78 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 79 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 71 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 83 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 73 |
| 1999 | £94,000 | £187,337 | 91 |
| 1998 | £88,800 | £179,249 | 70 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 67 |
| 1996 | £67,500 | £142,354 | 57 |
| 1995 | £67,800 | £147,387 | 42 |
In cash terms the typical IP31 1 home went from £67,800 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 127%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IP31 1 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 2006 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−21.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.3% | −8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 20 sales completed in IP31 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 82 sales a year before the financial crisis and 45 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 tenants pay around IP31 1
IP31 1 falls under West Suffolk, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £335,000 median sold price, £1,177 a month is £14,124 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
What kind of market IP31 1 is
This is a thin market: 20 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.
Common questions on IP31 1 (Ixworth)
Is IP31 1 (Ixworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP31 1 (Ixworth)?
Are property prices falling in IP31 1 (Ixworth)?
What happens to IP31 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
IP31's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 83 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP31 district, not just IP31 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds
- Broad Meadow, Walsham Le Willows, Suffolk, Walsham Le Willows
- High Street, Ixworth, Bury St Edmunds...
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every IP31 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. 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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 IP31
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of IP31, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP31 2 | £350,000 | 31 |
| IP31 3 | £345,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full IP31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP31 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in IP31 1? 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 IP31 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP31 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP31 1 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 IP31 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IP31 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP31 1 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.
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.