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Ixworth market report IP31, Bury St. Edmunds
The IP31 (Ixworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 10,657 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in IP31 (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: 92 registered 2026 sales put the IP31 (Bury St. Edmunds) median at £343,500, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £387,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,550 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,657 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
IP31 is the postcode district covering Ixworth, Thurston, Great Barton in Bury St. Edmunds. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where IP31 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 IP31
Take the 92 registered 2026 sales in IP31 and the middle price, the median, is £343,500. The mean lands at £387,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in IP31
By floor space, homes in IP31 have sold for about £3,550 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP31 trades 21% above the country as a whole.
IP31's median sold price, 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 | £343,500 | £343,500 | 92 |
| 2025 | £355,000 | £363,489 | 317 |
| 2024 | £353,500 | £375,843 | 304 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 306 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 499 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 535 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 266 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 259 |
| 2018 | £319,000 | £425,233 | 270 |
| 2017 | £315,000 | £429,628 | 321 |
| 2016 | £260,500 | £364,442 | 370 |
| 2015 | £262,500 | £370,913 | 376 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 378 |
| 2013 | £222,500 | £320,155 | 280 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 268 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 233 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 243 |
| 2009 | £197,500 | £317,483 | 249 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 180 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 394 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 406 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 335 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 389 |
| 2003 | £161,000 | £296,601 | 378 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 403 |
| 2001 | £122,000 | £234,539 | 375 |
| 2000 | £106,500 | £209,006 | 338 |
| 1999 | £86,800 | £172,988 | 392 |
| 1998 | £80,500 | £162,495 | 352 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 459 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 376 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 314 |
In cash terms the typical IP31 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £343,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 136%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP31 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 (+24.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−15.6%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 60% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £450,000 against £172,400 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, IP31
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 | £420,000 | 49 | 6,336 |
| Semi-detached | £287,000 | 27 | 2,713 |
| Terraced | £217,500 | 13 | 1,455 |
| Flats | £172,400 (2022) | – | 100 |
What IP31 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.2% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 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
Sales per year, counted
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 230 sales completed in IP31. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 304 sales a year recently, against 377 a year before 2008. 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.
Reading the IP31 market
IP31 sits 6 of 33 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Rents around IP31
The local authority for IP31 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 £343,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,177 a month (£14,124 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
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 West Suffolk at £1,177 a month, a gross yield of about 4.1% against the £343,500 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.
What people ask about IP31 (Ixworth)
Is IP31 (Ixworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP31 (Ixworth)?
Are property prices falling in IP31 (Ixworth)?
Where do IP31 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in IP31 right now
Everything above is what homes in IP31 sold for. The live side of the market holds 83 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the IP31 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 IP31 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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
IP31 ranks 15 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside IP31, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP31 1 | £335,000 | 20 |
| IP31 2 | £350,000 | 31 |
| IP31 3 | £345,000 | 41 |
How IP31 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 (this report) | £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% |
| IP6 | £268,800 | -6% |
Selling in IP31? 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 IP31, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP31's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP31 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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The live map plots every individual IP31 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.
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.