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Rushmere St Andrew market report IP5 3, Ipswich
The standing IP5 3 (Rushmere St Andrew) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,970 sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP5 3 (Ipswich) 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 middle 2026 sale in IP5 3 (Ipswich) came in at £320,000, out of 17 registered, up 23% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £322,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,790 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,970 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
IP5 3 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 3 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 IP5 3 sells for
Across 17 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IP5 3 home went for £320,000. The mean is £322,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in IP5 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in IP5 3 costs about £3,790 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, IP5 3 runs 12% above it.
The price of a typical IP5 3 home, 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 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 59 |
| 2024 | £330,000 | £350,858 | 67 |
| 2023 | £352,000 | £386,762 | 39 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 46 |
| 2021 | £259,200 | £328,181 | 66 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 36 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 50 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 29 |
| 2017 | £249,500 | £340,293 | 56 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 51 |
| 2015 | £227,000 | £320,751 | 69 |
| 2014 | £208,500 | £295,794 | 70 |
| 2013 | £171,000 | £246,052 | 55 |
| 2012 | £184,000 | £270,825 | 46 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 52 |
| 2010 | £203,500 | £319,140 | 54 |
| 2009 | £162,800 | £261,702 | 52 |
| 2008 | £173,000 | £283,584 | 45 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 65 |
| 2006 | £176,500 | £306,381 | 97 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 74 |
| 2004 | £154,000 | £279,694 | 63 |
| 2003 | £126,800 | £233,596 | 116 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 96 |
| 2001 | £96,000 | £184,555 | 76 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 69 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 76 |
| 1998 | £74,200 | £149,778 | 78 |
| 1997 | £67,200 | £137,814 | 84 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 52 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical IP5 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP5 3 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 2006 (+29.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−17.6%). 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) | −3.0% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 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 3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 17 sales completed in IP5 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 82 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 a year over the last five. 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.
The rental side of IP5 3
For renting purposes IP5 3 sits in East Suffolk. The ONS average private rent there is £834 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £597 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,332 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £320,000 median purchase price, a rent of £834 a month (£10,008 a year) works out at a 3.1% 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.
How IP5 3 trades
This is a thin market: 17 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.
IP5 3 (Rushmere St Andrew): the questions that come up
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Where do IP5 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 23% over five years in cash and flat 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 3: 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: IP prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £342,200 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full IP5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in IP5 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IP5 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP5 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP5 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IP5 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP5 3 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.
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.