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Capel St Mary market report IP9, Ipswich
The IP9 (Capel St Mary) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,586 sales registered with HM Land Registry in IP9 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in IP9 (Ipswich) came in at £325,000, out of 61 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £345,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,586 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
IP9 is the postcode district covering Capel St Mary, Chelmondiston, Shotley 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 IP9 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
In the IP9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £325,000, from 61 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £345,100, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in IP9
By floor space, homes in IP9 have sold for about £3,640 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IP9 14% above the country at large.
IP9'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £344,100 | £352,328 | 160 |
| 2024 | £338,000 | £359,363 | 157 |
| 2023 | £364,000 | £399,947 | 165 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 214 |
| 2021 | £328,000 | £415,290 | 248 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 182 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 157 |
| 2018 | £309,000 | £411,903 | 184 |
| 2017 | £302,000 | £411,898 | 183 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 149 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 171 |
| 2014 | £247,500 | £351,122 | 164 |
| 2013 | £208,000 | £299,291 | 129 |
| 2012 | £219,200 | £322,635 | 132 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 144 |
| 2010 | £202,000 | £316,788 | 120 |
| 2009 | £182,000 | £292,567 | 138 |
| 2008 | £208,500 | £341,776 | 103 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 185 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 224 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 194 |
| 2004 | £162,000 | £294,224 | 173 |
| 2003 | £143,800 | £264,914 | 198 |
| 2002 | £133,500 | £251,179 | 232 |
| 2001 | £118,000 | £226,849 | 211 |
| 2000 | £82,300 | £161,514 | 213 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 191 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 175 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 191 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 196 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 242 |
In cash terms the typical IP9 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 205%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IP9 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 (+43.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 47% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £382,500 against £82,500 for a flat, 4.6 times the price.
Median by property type, IP9
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 | £382,500 | 26 | 2,590 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 18 | 1,798 |
| Terraced | £247,500 | 12 | 941 |
| Flats | £82,500 | 5 | 230 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.6% | −7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 113 IP9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 204 sales a year before the financial crisis and 151 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.
Rents around IP9
For renting purposes IP9 sits in Babergh. The ONS average private rent there is £972 a month (May 2026). 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 £325,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
What kind of market IP9 is
Only 113 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IP9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about IP9 (Capel St Mary)
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Searches that land here, answered
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 Babergh is £972 a month on average, which is a 3.6% 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.
What happens to IP9 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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
Everything above is what homes in IP9 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 34 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% above the IP9 median sold price.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Lloyd Road, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk
- Old School House, Shotley, Ipswich
- Days Green, Capel St. Mary, Ipswich, Suffolk
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every IP9 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: IP prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IP area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
IP9 ranks 19 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside IP9, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IP9 1 | £277,500 | 22 |
| IP9 2 | £345,000 | 39 |
How IP9 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 (this report) | £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 | £268,800 | -6% |
Selling in IP9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IP9, open the average prices map and zoom from the IP9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IP9 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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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual IP9 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.