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Needham Market market report IP6, Ipswich
The IP6 (Needham Market) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 10,565 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in IP6 (Ipswich) 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: the middle 2026 sale in IP6 (Ipswich) came in at £268,800, out of 114 registered, down 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £308,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,410 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 10,565 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
IP6 is the postcode district covering Needham Market, Creeting St. Mary, Barham in Ipswich. 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 IP6 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 IP6 homes really sell for
Across 114 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IP6 home went for £268,800. The mean is £308,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
IP6 prices by floor area
Per square metre, IP6 homes have averaged around £3,410 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IP6 6% below the country at large.
IP6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £268,800 | £268,800 | 114 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | £317,413 | 380 |
| 2024 | £282,800 | £300,674 | 328 |
| 2023 | £297,500 | £326,880 | 261 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 411 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 483 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 365 |
| 2019 | £241,200 | £316,155 | 342 |
| 2018 | £241,500 | £321,924 | 388 |
| 2017 | £237,000 | £323,244 | 349 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 351 |
| 2015 | £194,700 | £275,111 | 320 |
| 2014 | £186,000 | £263,873 | 355 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 300 |
| 2012 | £169,500 | £249,483 | 229 |
| 2011 | £163,500 | £246,822 | 214 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 269 |
| 2009 | £162,000 | £260,416 | 223 |
| 2008 | £172,500 | £282,764 | 191 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 339 |
| 2006 | £174,800 | £303,430 | 366 |
| 2005 | £161,000 | £286,515 | 294 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 379 |
| 2003 | £128,500 | £236,728 | 318 |
| 2002 | £123,200 | £231,800 | 398 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 382 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 357 |
| 1999 | £67,400 | £134,325 | 409 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 361 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 437 |
| 1996 | £57,200 | £120,632 | 396 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 256 |
In cash terms the typical IP6 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £268,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IP6 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 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.3% | −15.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £400,000 against £134,800 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, IP6
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 | £400,000 | 41 | 4,161 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 38 | 3,436 |
| Terraced | £230,000 | 27 | 2,348 |
| Flats | £134,800 | 8 | 620 |
Sales activity in IP6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
IP6 recorded 256 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 299 sales a year recently, against 354 a year before 2008. 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 rental side of IP6
IP6 falls under Mid Suffolk, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £994 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £712 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,570, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Suffolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£994 a month is £11,928 a year, which against the £268,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
IP6 (Needham Market): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in IP6 (Needham Market)?
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The questions people bring to IP6 (Needham Market)
These are the recorded searches for the wider IP report family, answered with this page's own figures.
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comes up in the searches for this page. The current ONS figure for Mid Suffolk is £994 a month on average, which is a 4.4% gross yield at the local median; sizes and caveats are in the rent section below.
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.
Will IP6 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in IP6 right now
Everything above is what homes in IP6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 62 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 41% above the IP6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Chestnut Rise, Witnesham, Ipswich
- Masons Drive, Great Blakenham, Ipswich
- Lower Road, Westerfield, Ipswich, Suffolk
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every IP6 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. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
IP6 ranks 26 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.
IP area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside IP6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IP6 0 | £275,000 | 43 |
| IP6 8 | £242,500 | 59 |
| IP6 9 | £450,000 | 12 |
How IP6 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 | £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 (this report) | £268,800 | -6% |
Before you sell in IP6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP6, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IP6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every IP6 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.