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Capel St Mary market report IP9 1, Ipswich
The standing IP9 1 (Capel St Mary) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,415 sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP9 1 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical IP9 1 (Ipswich) home changed hands for £277,500 in 2026 (median of 22 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £314,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,460 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,415 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
IP9 1 is one sector of IP9 (Ipswich): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where IP9 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 IP9 1
In the IP9 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £277,500, from 22 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £314,500, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in IP9 1
The last five years of sales put IP9 1 at roughly £3,460 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving IP9 1 3% below the national figure.
The price of a typical IP9 1 home, 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 | £277,500 | £277,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £316,000 | £323,557 | 78 |
| 2024 | £328,500 | £349,263 | 72 |
| 2023 | £296,200 | £325,451 | 60 |
| 2022 | £316,000 | £370,546 | 60 |
| 2021 | £291,500 | £369,077 | 99 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 61 |
| 2019 | £252,500 | £330,967 | 53 |
| 2018 | £252,000 | £335,921 | 63 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 63 |
| 2016 | £211,200 | £295,471 | 46 |
| 2015 | £174,600 | £246,710 | 70 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 67 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 64 |
| 2012 | £176,000 | £259,050 | 55 |
| 2011 | £175,300 | £264,636 | 62 |
| 2010 | £159,500 | £250,137 | 48 |
| 2009 | £152,500 | £245,145 | 61 |
| 2008 | £193,000 | £316,368 | 49 |
| 2007 | £155,600 | £263,941 | 67 |
| 2006 | £154,000 | £267,324 | 94 |
| 2005 | £143,000 | £254,482 | 97 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 96 |
| 2003 | £116,500 | £214,621 | 94 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 95 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 98 |
| 2000 | £71,500 | £140,319 | 120 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 85 |
| 1998 | £49,700 | £100,323 | 86 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 84 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 97 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 149 |
In cash terms the typical IP9 1 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £277,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 227%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP9 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 1997 (+38.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.0%). 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 years (since 2025) | −12.2% | −14.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
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.
IP9 1 recorded 22 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 95 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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.
Reading the IP9 1 market
This is a thin market: 22 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the IP9 district median, IP9 1 sits 15% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of IP9 1
IP9 1 falls under Babergh, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £972 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £722 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,612 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Babergh
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£972 a month is £11,664 a year, which against the £277,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
The questions people bring to IP9 1 (Capel St Mary)
For searches like ipswich rental market
: the ONS puts the average private rent in Babergh at £972 a month, a gross yield of about 4.2% against the £277,500 median. The full rent section below breaks it down by size.
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.
IP9 1 (Capel St Mary): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in IP9 1 (Capel St Mary)?
Is IP9 1 (Capel St Mary) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP9 1 (Capel St Mary)?
Where do IP9 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in IP9 now
The live side of the market holds 34 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IP9 district, not just IP9 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Lloyd Road, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk
- Old School House, Shotley, Ipswich
- Days Green, Capel St. Mary, 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 IP9 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.
What another bedroom costs in IP
Real sold prices by size across the IP area, straight 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 | — | £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.
Winners and losers across the IP area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in IP9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of IP9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP9 2 | £345,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full IP9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP9 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in IP9 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IP9 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IP9 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IP9 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 IP9 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IP9 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP9 1 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.
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.