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Capel St Mary market report IP9 2, Ipswich
The IP9 2 (Capel St Mary) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,171 HM Land Registry entries for IP9 2 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical IP9 2 (Ipswich) home changed hands for £345,000 in 2026 (median of 39 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £362,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,760 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,171 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
IP9 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IP9 (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 IP9 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 IP9 2
The IP9 2 median stands at £345,000 for 2026, built from 39 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £362,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in IP9 2
Per square metre, IP9 2 homes have averaged around £3,760 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IP9 2 trades 21% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical IP9 2 home, 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 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £372,500 | £381,408 | 82 |
| 2024 | £346,000 | £367,869 | 85 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 105 |
| 2022 | £405,000 | £474,909 | 154 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 149 |
| 2020 | £327,500 | £424,938 | 121 |
| 2019 | £340,500 | £446,314 | 104 |
| 2018 | £326,500 | £435,231 | 121 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 120 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 103 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 101 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 97 |
| 2013 | £226,000 | £325,191 | 65 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 77 |
| 2011 | £215,500 | £325,322 | 82 |
| 2010 | £237,000 | £371,677 | 72 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 77 |
| 2008 | £232,800 | £381,608 | 54 |
| 2007 | £235,500 | £399,474 | 118 |
| 2006 | £218,500 | £379,288 | 130 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 97 |
| 2004 | £198,500 | £360,515 | 77 |
| 2003 | £180,200 | £331,972 | 104 |
| 2002 | £163,000 | £306,683 | 137 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 113 |
| 2000 | £112,000 | £219,800 | 93 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 106 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 89 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 107 |
| 1996 | £73,500 | £155,008 | 99 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 93 |
In cash terms the typical IP9 2 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 142%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IP9 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, 2011 (−9.1%). 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) | −7.4% | −9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 2 recorded 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 93 sales a year recently, against 109 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.
Rents around IP9 2
For renting purposes IP9 2 sits in Babergh. The ONS average private rent there is £972 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £722 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,612, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Babergh
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £345,000 median purchase price, a rent of £972 a month (£11,664 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
What kind of market IP9 2 is
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IP9 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
IP9 2 (Capel St Mary): the questions that come up
Is IP9 2 (Capel St Mary) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IP9 2 (Capel St Mary)?
Are property prices falling in IP9 2 (Capel St Mary)?
What happens to IP9 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Lloyd Road, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk
- Old School House, Shotley, Ipswich
- Days Green, Capel St. Mary, Ipswich, Suffolk
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 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the IP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, IP area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in IP9
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are IP9's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP9 1 | £277,500 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full IP9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IP9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in IP9 2? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at IP9 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim IP9 2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about IP9 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IP9 2 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.