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North East Ipswich market report IP4 1, Ipswich
The standing IP4 1 (North East Ipswich) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,022 HM Land Registry entries for IP4 1 (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.
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 IP4 1 (Ipswich) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 19 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £218,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,740 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,022 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
IP4 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP4 (Ipswich). 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 IP4 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 buyers actually paid in IP4 1
Take the 19 registered 2026 sales in IP4 1 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £218,300, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in IP4 1
A square metre of IP4 1 home has cost about £2,740 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving IP4 1 19% below the national figure.
A typical IP4 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £219,000 | £224,237 | 38 |
| 2024 | £186,000 | £197,756 | 80 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 69 |
| 2022 | £205,000 | £240,386 | 81 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 101 |
| 2020 | £184,800 | £239,782 | 72 |
| 2019 | £168,500 | £220,863 | 89 |
| 2018 | £156,200 | £208,218 | 104 |
| 2017 | £155,000 | £211,404 | 113 |
| 2016 | £129,500 | £181,172 | 139 |
| 2015 | £133,800 | £189,059 | 98 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 95 |
| 2013 | £110,600 | £159,142 | 102 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 87 |
| 2011 | £113,000 | £170,587 | 77 |
| 2010 | £117,000 | £183,486 | 79 |
| 2009 | £125,300 | £201,421 | 158 |
| 2008 | £137,400 | £225,228 | 82 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 165 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 95 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 109 |
| 2004 | £116,000 | £210,679 | 95 |
| 2003 | £107,500 | £198,041 | 137 |
| 2002 | £85,500 | £160,868 | 109 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 99 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 147 |
| 1999 | £51,200 | £102,039 | 88 |
| 1998 | £42,500 | £85,789 | 76 |
| 1997 | £42,100 | £86,339 | 68 |
| 1996 | £37,800 | £79,719 | 68 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 83 |
In cash terms the typical IP4 1 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 194%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP4 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 2000 (+36.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−22.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in IP4 1
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 19 IP4 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 57 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.
The shape of the IP4 1 market
This is a thin market: 19 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. Within IP4, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around IP4 1
The local authority for IP4 1 is Ipswich, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £989 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £739 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,465, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Ipswich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £989 a month is £11,868 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: IP4 1 (North East Ipswich)
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Will IP4 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
IP4's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 142 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP4 district, not just IP4 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 IP4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in IP
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IP area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in IP4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of IP4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP4 2 | £200,000 | 47 |
| IP4 3 | £312,000 | 17 |
| IP4 4 | £277,500 | 43 |
| IP4 5 | £275,000 | 66 |
Zoom out to the full IP4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in IP4 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IP4 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP4 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP4 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 IP4 1.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IP4 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual IP4 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.