Belstead Avenue, Ipswich house prices are built from 141 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 2 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £131,000. Across the 11 years from 2006 to 2017 the median moved +125.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +72.2%.
Median price paid
£131,000
Change in cash, 2006–2017
+125.2%
Change in real terms
+72.2%
Median per m²
£1,536
HM Land Registry141 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Belstead Avenue, Ipswich prices moved
The chart tracks the median Belstead Avenue, Ipswich house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2017. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £49,500 | £109,913 |
| 2000s | 6 | £93,250 | £169,874 |
| 2010s | 4 | £163,000 | £229,830 |
The highest yearly median on record for Belstead Avenue, Ipswich is £210,000 in 2017; the lowest is £19,000 in 1996. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £19,000 to £210,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £41,215, so the real change over the whole record is +593.5% — about +9.66% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +125.2% in cash against +72.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 2 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| Flat 6 Chilton Court | 3 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £71,000 | £72,543 |
| 12 | 4 Mar 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 5 | 11 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 59a | 13 Oct 2023 | Detached | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| 8 | 20 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| 55 | 31 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| Flat B Chilton Court | 27 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 67 | 11 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £364,955 |
| 37 | 2 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £267,500 | £309,922 |
| 38 | 15 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £308,000 | £356,845 |
| 14 | 29 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £341,500 | £431,465 |
| 35a | 14 Sep 2021 | Detached | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| 11 | 5 Mar 2021 | Detached | £345,000 | £435,887 |
| 37 | 15 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 53 | 16 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £278,375 |
| Flat 17 Chilton Court | 8 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £55,000 | £71,212 |
| 62 | 30 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £304,270 |
| 49 | 24 Apr 2020 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| Flat A Chilton Court | 14 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £137,338 |
| Flat 19 Chilton Court | 29 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £120,334 |
| 32 | 19 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| 15 | 28 Sep 2018 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £326,512 |
| 41 | 15 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| 24 | 29 Mar 2018 | Detached | £310,000 | £413,138 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Belstead Avenue, Ipswich values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 Belstead Avenue | £135,000 (2009) | £300,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.0% |
| FLAT 6 CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue | £31,000 (2001) | £71,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 12 Belstead Avenue | £195,000 (2003) | £370,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 8 Belstead Avenue | £135,000 (2014) | £325,000 (2023) | +10.3% | +6.8% |
| 55 Belstead Avenue | £162,000 (2012) | £295,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.5% |
| FLAT B CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue | £73,000 (2003) | £120,000 (2023) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 67 Belstead Avenue | £180,000 (2006) | £315,000 (2022) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
| 37 Belstead Avenue | £220,000 (2021) | £267,500 (2022) | +21.6% | +11.5% |
| 14 Belstead Avenue | £230,000 (2008) | £341,500 (2021) | +3.1% | +0.9% |
| 35A Belstead Avenue | £131,000 (2013) | £270,000 (2021) | +9.5% | +7.5% |
| 53 Belstead Avenue | £170,000 (2013) | £215,000 (2020) | +3.4% | +1.7% |
| 49 Belstead Avenue | £140,000 (2004) | £240,000 (2020) | +3.4% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Belstead Avenue, Ipswich is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 80 | 56.7% | £165,000 | £34,995 – £341,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 40 | 28.4% | £53,950 | £14,000 – £120,000 |
| Detached | 17 | 12.1% | £195,000 | £84,000 – £370,000 |
| Terraced | 4 | 2.8% | £87,000 | £26,500 – £117,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Belstead Avenue, Ipswich
38 of the sales on record are leasehold and 103 freehold — 27.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £51,248 and the median freehold sale £167,500 — a gap of +226.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 38 | 27.0% | £51,248 |
| Freehold | 103 | 73.0% | £167,500 |
A further 5 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Belstead Avenue, Ipswich
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Babergh, 43.0% of 43,823 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 389 | 0.9% |
| B | 6,268 | 14.3% |
| C | 12,181 | 27.8% |
| D | 14,574 | 33.3% |
| E | 7,180 | 16.4% |
| F | 2,592 | 5.9% |
| G | 639 | 1.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Babergh at £970 a month as of Jun 2026 — £720 for a one-bedroom home and £1,116 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £131,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.89% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of IP2, 265 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 113 violent, 8 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 23 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 92,341 residents the 2021 census counted in Babergh, that is 2.87 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Belstead Avenue, Ipswich
The 2021 census counted 92,341 residents in Babergh across 40,200 households. 71.8% of those households own their home and 28.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a IP2 postcode: 8 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chantry Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,006 |
| Stoke High School – Ormiston Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 811 |
| Gusford Community Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 518 |
| The Oaks Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 449 |
| Halifax Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 409 |
| Sprites Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 406 |
| Hillside Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 402 |
| Ranelagh Primary School | Primary | Community school | 281 |
| The Willows Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 259 |
| St Mark's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 202 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ipswich Rail Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| Derby Road (Ipswich) Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Westerfield Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Mistley Rail Station | Rail | 11.8 km |
Section 09
How Belstead Avenue, Ipswich compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Belstead Avenue, Ipswich sits below that national figure — -16.8%.
Within Ipswich the street ranks 1624 of 2348 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £147,500 (-11.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,536 per square metre, across 32 of the 141 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £14,000 to £370,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Belstead Avenue, Ipswich sits in Babergh, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Babergh at 10.6 times median local earnings of £30,929 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Wherstead Road£112,000 median
- Hawthorn Drive£137,000 median
- Lavenham Road£118,000 median
- Rectory Road£105,000 median
- Bruff Road£125,000 median
- Sheldrake Drive£123,000 median
- Ranelagh Road£105,000 median
- Belstead Road£165,000 median
- Compair Crescent£107,750 median
- Fountains Road£128,000 median
- Burrell Road£83,725 median
- Heatherhayes£118,250 median
- Reavell Place£112,500 median
- Lupin Road£125,500 median
- Lanercost Way£128,250 median
- Pauline Street£81,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 38 Belstead Avenue4 sales
- FLAT B, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue4 sales
- 49 Belstead Avenue4 sales
- FLAT A, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 15, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue4 sales
- 65 Belstead Avenue4 sales
- 1 Belstead Avenue4 sales
- 35 Belstead Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 11, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 4, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 6, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue3 sales
- 14 Belstead Avenue3 sales
- 41 Belstead Avenue3 sales
- 24 Belstead Avenue3 sales
- 44 Belstead Avenue3 sales
- 25 Belstead Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 3, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 9, CHILTON COURT Belstead Avenue3 sales
- 12 Belstead Avenue2 sales
- 8 Belstead Avenue2 sales
- 55 Belstead Avenue2 sales
- 67 Belstead Avenue2 sales
- 37 Belstead Avenue2 sales
- 35A Belstead Avenue2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Belstead Avenue, Ipswich?
The median price paid in Belstead Avenue, Ipswich across every sale on the register is £131,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Belstead Avenue, Ipswich?
141 sales are on record for Belstead Avenue, Ipswich, the most recent completing on 2 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Belstead Avenue, Ipswich house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +125.2% between 2006 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +72.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Belstead Avenue, Ipswich house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £210,000, set in 2017. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Belstead Avenue, Ipswich?
£1,536 per square metre, from the 32 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 2 Dec 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Belstead Avenue, Ipswich house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.