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Ixworth market report IP31 2, Bury St. Edmunds
The IP31 2 (Ixworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,978 sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP31 2 (Bury St. Edmunds) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 typical home in IP31 2 (Bury St. Edmunds) sold for £350,000 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £416,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,510 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,978 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
IP31 2 is one sector of IP31 (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 IP31 2 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.
Today's IP31 2 prices, from the sold record
Across 31 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IP31 2 home went for £350,000. The mean is £416,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in IP31 2
The last five years of sales put IP31 2 at roughly £3,510 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IP31 2 23% above the country at large.
IP31 2'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 107 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 97 |
| 2023 | £345,500 | £379,620 | 82 |
| 2022 | £371,000 | £435,040 | 142 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 146 |
| 2020 | £309,000 | £400,934 | 95 |
| 2019 | £308,000 | £403,714 | 108 |
| 2018 | £292,500 | £389,908 | 104 |
| 2017 | £326,500 | £445,313 | 120 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 152 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 161 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 161 |
| 2013 | £212,000 | £305,047 | 121 |
| 2012 | £184,500 | £271,561 | 126 |
| 2011 | £237,500 | £358,534 | 68 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 100 |
| 2009 | £207,800 | £334,040 | 102 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 69 |
| 2007 | £240,800 | £408,464 | 150 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 166 |
| 2005 | £186,000 | £331,005 | 125 |
| 2004 | £197,000 | £357,790 | 147 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 147 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 158 |
| 2001 | £134,500 | £258,569 | 132 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 119 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 143 |
| 1998 | £80,200 | £161,889 | 142 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 199 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 148 |
| 1995 | £73,000 | £158,691 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical IP31 2 home went from £73,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 121%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IP31 2 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 2017 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−22.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What IP31 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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 IP31 2
Sales per year, counted
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.
IP31 2 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 143 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market IP31 2 is
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IP31 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around IP31 2
IP31 2 falls under West Suffolk, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,177 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £350,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,177 a month (£14,124 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
Asked and answered: IP31 2 (Ixworth)
How much did a house sell for in IP31 2 (Ixworth)?
Are property prices falling in IP31 2 (Ixworth)?
Is IP31 2 (Ixworth) a good place to buy a house?
Are IP31 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 IP31 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 83 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP31 district, not just IP31 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% 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.
- 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" 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 IP31 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in IP: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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.
Other sectors in IP31
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of IP31, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP31 1 | £335,000 | 20 |
| 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 in IP31 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at IP31 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim IP31 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IP31 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP31 2 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.