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Typical sold price, IP1
£222,500
250 real sales, 11 February 2026 to 21 August 2026. A rough cash guide is shown below, not a quote.
- Sales in sample
- 250
- Cash guide, 70%
- £156,000
- Cash guide, 85%
- £189,000
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on selling in Town centre / Waterfront: steady sales, so price from the evidence
Town centre / Waterfront is neither busy nor quiet, at about 40 sales a month, which is enough to price from, though not enough history for us to call a clear twelve-month direction.
Before you accept anything, most sales in Town centre / Waterfront fell between £121,850 and £354,400, so check where your home would sit among the recent sales before choosing a number; roughly 40 sales a month is enough for buyers to compare, so evidence beats optimism.
Compare optionsNeither route is obviously right at this pace: a cash sale buys a date, the open market usually buys a better price; for a typical £222,500 home, 70–85% of market value works out at about £156,000 to £189,000, which is a rough guide and not a quote, so check any offer against homes that really sold.
Get gas and electrical safety certificates; paperwork for any damp, roof or window work; and sign-off for any alterations you have made in one folder early, and ask your conveyancer what the buyer’s side will want to see.
To see what a quicker sale would look like, ask a cash buyer to contact you; it costs you nothing and you do not have to accept.
Get Cash OfferOur opinion, drawn from the figures on this page: not advice and not a forecast. We earn from OfferCheck reports and from introducing sellers to cash buyers, so weigh it with that in mind (see our disclosure). We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA.
Key figures
Town centre / Waterfront at a glance
Sourced figures for the district, each one dated.
Most sell between
£121,850 to £354,400
Middle 80% of 250 sales
Gross yield
5.4%
gross, before costs, illustrative
Average rent
£995 a month
Ipswich, August 2026
Planning applications
1,057
Within 500 m of the centre
Local data
What Town centre / Waterfront homes sell for
Real Land Registry sold prices for IP1, each chart with its table underneath.
Price by type
What each type sells for in IP1
Detached homes had the highest typical price in IP1 at £385,000, from 28 sales; flats came to £120,250.
- Detached12%
- Semi-detached43%
- Terraced30%
- Flats16%
See the figures
| Type | Typical (median) | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £385,000 | 28 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 103 |
| Terraced | £185,000 | 73 |
| Flats | £120,250 | 38 |
HM Land Registry, 11 February 2026 to 21 August 2026. Types with fewer than 10 sales are left out.
Rent by size
What Ipswich homes rent for
Average private rent in Ipswich was £995 a month in August 2026, a gross yield of 5.4% on the IP1 median price (gross, before costs, illustrative).
See the figures
1 bed £744, 2 bed £915, 3 bed £1,046, 4+ bed £1,472 a month. ONS source
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026. The rent covers the whole local area, not just IP1.
Planning activity
Planning near Town centre / Waterfront
1,057 planning applications within 500 m of the IP1 centre. Of the 20 most recent, 6 are still undecided.
- Decided70%
- Undecided30%
Planning detail
Planning activity near Town centre / Waterfront
1,057 planning applications within 500 m of the IP1 district centre
That count covers every date PlanIt holds. The 20 most recent were received between 2 Dec 2025 and 10 Jul 2026, and 6 of them are still undecided.
Source: PlanIt (planit.org.uk), which gathers local council planning registers. Checked 23 July 2026. This is activity in the area, not at any one address, and coverage and council update speed vary.
View applicationsPlanIt, from local council planning registers. Area activity, not one address.
Contains HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Apartment-led central market.
Whatever the reason you need to move on in Town centre / Waterfront (Ipswich), a cash sale can be quicker and simpler than the open market, though cash buyers usually offer below market value. Want to know what homes in Town centre / Waterfront actually sell for first? See real Land Registry sold prices for IP1.
Rent: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026 (published 16 September 2026): the average monthly rent for all private rented homes in Ipswich, up 4.3% on a year earlier. It covers the whole area, not just IP1. Official statistics in development. By size: 1 bed £744, 2 bed £915, 3 bed £1,046, 4+ bed £1,472.
Gross yield is 12 months of that average rent divided by the IP1 median sale price. It is gross, before costs such as void periods, agent and management fees, repairs, insurance, tax and mortgage interest, and illustrative only: the rent covers a whole local area and every property type, while the price is for IP1, so the two are not a like-for-like pair.
Price spread and sales volume are from HM Land Registry sold prices. Liquidity (sales volume) is a rough guide to how many homes change hands, not a forecast.
Explore sold prices
What actually sold in IP1
Filter by property type and radius around the IP1 centre. Distances use each sale's postcode centroid, so they are approximate.
250 sales match · page 1 of 13
| Address | Price | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20, BLENHEIM ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 4EB | £197,500 | 2026-08-21 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 120, EPSOM DRIVE, IPSWICHIP1 6SU | £292,000 | 2026-08-21 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 29, ROSECROFT ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 6AP | £420,000 | 2026-08-21 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 50, CECIL ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 3NW | £220,000 | 2026-08-21 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 4, ALL SAINTS ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 4DG | £175,000 | 2026-08-18 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 27, HEATHERCROFT ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 6QQ | £310,000 | 2026-08-18 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 644, BRAMFORD ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 5BQ | £187,500 | 2026-08-14 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 36, IVRY STREET, IPSWICHIP1 3QW | £620,000 | 2026-08-14 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 66, DALE HALL LANE, IPSWICHIP1 4LW | £535,000 | 2026-08-13 | Detached | Freehold |
| 728, OLD NORWICH ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 6LG | £915,000 | 2026-08-10 | Detached | Freehold |
| PARKWOOD, 11, HENLEY ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 3SE | £202,500 | 2026-08-07 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 11, PRESTON DRIVE, IPSWICHIP1 6DS | £285,000 | 2026-08-07 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 11, PINECROFT ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 6BW | £300,000 | 2026-08-05 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 87, LARCHCROFT ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 6PF | £367,000 | 2026-08-05 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 26, CEDARCROFT ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 6BJ | £287,500 | 2026-08-04 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 85, WAVENEY ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 5DF | £173,000 | 2026-08-04 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 23, FIRCROFT ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 6AG | £285,000 | 2026-08-03 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 12, ALDERMAN ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 2DU | £115,000 | 2026-07-31 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 6, BEACONSFIELD ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 4AD | £190,000 | 2026-07-31 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 123, WAVENEY ROAD, IPSWICHIP1 5DF | £200,000 | 2026-07-31 | Terraced | Freehold |
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