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Rushmere St Andrew market report IP5 2, Ipswich
The IP5 2 (Rushmere St Andrew) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,873 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in IP5 2 (Ipswich) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in IP5 2 (Ipswich) sold for £342,200 in 2026, the median of 64 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £340,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,590 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,873 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
IP5 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP5 (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 IP5 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.
The going rate for a home in IP5 2
The 2026 median for IP5 2 is £342,200, taken from 64 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £340,400, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in IP5 2
The last five years of sales put IP5 2 at roughly £3,590 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP5 2 trades 20% above the country as a whole.
IP5 2'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £342,200 | £342,200 | 64 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 145 |
| 2024 | £297,500 | £316,304 | 155 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 146 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 153 |
| 2021 | £299,500 | £379,206 | 189 |
| 2020 | £293,800 | £381,212 | 146 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 166 |
| 2018 | £279,800 | £372,979 | 184 |
| 2017 | £272,500 | £371,663 | 212 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 221 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 233 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 224 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 203 |
| 2012 | £192,500 | £283,336 | 216 |
| 2011 | £197,800 | £298,602 | 198 |
| 2010 | £199,500 | £312,867 | 168 |
| 2009 | £171,200 | £275,205 | 222 |
| 2008 | £206,500 | £338,497 | 260 |
| 2007 | £206,000 | £349,433 | 414 |
| 2006 | £191,000 | £331,552 | 628 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 508 |
| 2004 | £170,600 | £309,843 | 352 |
| 2003 | £163,800 | £301,759 | 280 |
| 2002 | £139,700 | £262,844 | 400 |
| 2001 | £123,000 | £236,461 | 291 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 232 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 253 |
| 1998 | £82,200 | £165,927 | 276 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 275 |
| 1996 | £64,700 | £136,449 | 244 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 215 |
In cash terms the typical IP5 2 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £342,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 122%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP5 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 2001 (+29.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What IP5 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.3% | +2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in IP5 2
How many homes change hands
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, 64 sales completed in IP5 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 388 sales a year before the financial crisis and 133 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 homes rent for around IP5 2
The local authority for IP5 2 is East Suffolk, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £834 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £597 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,332, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £342,200 median purchase price, a rent of £834 a month (£10,008 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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: IP5 2 (Rushmere St Andrew)
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Are IP5 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 IP5 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 51 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP5 district, not just IP5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% 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 IP5 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.
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 IP5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of IP5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP5 1 | £345,000 | 27 |
| IP5 3 | £320,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full IP5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in IP5 2? 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 IP5 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP5 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP5 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every IP5 2 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.