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North East Ipswich market report IP4, Ipswich
The standing IP4 (North East Ipswich) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 22,755 HM Land Registry entries for IP4 (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 August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in IP4 (Ipswich) sold for £260,000 in 2026, the median of 222 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £278,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,080 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 22,755 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 IP4 covering North East Ipswich sits in Ipswich. 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 IP4 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 IP4 sells for
The 2026 median for IP4 is £260,000, taken from 222 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £278,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in IP4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in IP4 costs about £3,080 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP4 trades 9% below the country as a whole.
IP4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 222 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 463 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 524 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 472 |
| 2022 | £268,000 | £314,261 | 552 |
| 2021 | £255,000 | £322,863 | 759 |
| 2020 | £227,500 | £295,186 | 503 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 542 |
| 2018 | £217,000 | £289,265 | 635 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 631 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 747 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 734 |
| 2014 | £171,800 | £243,728 | 744 |
| 2013 | £153,000 | £220,152 | 634 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 553 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 541 |
| 2010 | £156,000 | £244,648 | 600 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 651 |
| 2008 | £154,000 | £252,439 | 478 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 950 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 1,001 |
| 2005 | £138,500 | £246,474 | 835 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 872 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 920 |
| 2002 | £97,000 | £182,505 | 899 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 929 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 922 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 1,007 |
| 1998 | £54,500 | £110,012 | 933 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 875 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 854 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 773 |
In cash terms the typical IP4 home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 152%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IP4 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 2003 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −5.5% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.3% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £436,500 against £136,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, IP4
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 | £436,500 | 36 | 5,055 |
| Semi-detached | £283,500 | 86 | 7,423 |
| Terraced | £202,500 | 76 | 7,026 |
| Flats | £136,500 | 24 | 3,251 |
Transaction volumes
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 389 sales completed in IP4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 916 sales a year before the financial crisis and 447 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.
The shape of the IP4 market
In its area's price order IP4 comes 26 of 33, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around IP4
The local authority for IP4 is Ipswich, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £989 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £739 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,465 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Ipswich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £989 a month (£11,868 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
Common questions on IP4 (North East Ipswich)
Is IP4 (North East Ipswich) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP4 (North East Ipswich)?
Are property prices falling in IP4 (North East Ipswich)?
Are IP4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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 you could buy in IP4 now
Everything above is what homes in IP4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the IP4 median sold price.
IP4 registered 389 sales in the last twelve months; the 60 homes listed now would take about 2 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
9% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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.
What is for sale against what sells in IP4
Terraced homes are 28% of what sold in IP4 over 2024 and 2025 but only 13% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 28% | 22% |
| Semi-detached | 41% | 37% |
| Terraced | 13% | 28% |
| Flats | 18% | 13% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side.
The IP4 sales calendar
March is when IP4 changes hands most (10.4% of the 2,770 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.8%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 188 | 6.8% |
| February | 202 | 7.3% |
| March | 287 | 10.4% |
| April | 197 | 7.1% |
| May | 189 | 6.8% |
| June | 260 | 9.4% |
| July | 220 | 7.9% |
| August | 264 | 9.5% |
| September | 272 | 9.8% |
| October | 228 | 8.2% |
| November | 229 | 8.3% |
| December | 234 | 8.4% |
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. 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 | £270,000 | £303,250 (+12%) | £355,000 (+17%) | £442,550 (+25%) | £540,000 (+22%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £238,000 (+13%) | £268,500 (+13%) | £320,000 (+19%) | £400,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £161,000 | £205,000 (+27%) | £230,000 (+12%) | £280,000 (+22%) | £330,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £125,000 | £157,000 (+26%) | £211,000 (+34%) | £290,000 (+37%) | £402,500 (+39%) |
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
IP4 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.
Winners and losers across the IP area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside IP4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IP4 1 | £230,000 | 19 |
| IP4 2 | £193,800 | 54 |
| IP4 3 | £325,000 | 19 |
| IP4 4 | £282,500 | 52 |
| IP4 5 | £285,000 | 78 |
How IP4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the IP area, and IP4 itself, which ranks 26 of 33 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| IP15 | £546,500 | +26% |
| IP10 | £480,000 | +7% |
| IP29 | £412,500 | +11% |
| IP18 | £375,000 | -25% |
| IP13 | £366,000 | -4% |
| IP31 | £350,000 | +3% |
| IP5 | £347,500 | +14% |
| IP12 | £340,000 | -4% |
| IP30 | £340,000 | -3% |
| IP17 | £325,000 | +0% |
| IP7 | £320,000 | -6% |
| IP8 | £320,000 | +7% |
| IP9 | £320,000 | -2% |
| IP23 | £320,000 | -3% |
| IP21 | £308,200 | -4% |
| IP22 | £294,000 | -2% |
| IP20 | £285,000 | +2% |
| IP14 | £280,000 | +2% |
| IP32 | £280,000 | -8% |
| IP33 | £280,000 | -3% |
| IP28 | £278,800 | +5% |
| IP6 | £275,000 | -4% |
| IP19 | £272,500 | -4% |
| IP4 (this report) | £260,000 | +2% |
Thinking of selling in IP4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP4, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every IP4 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.
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.