That is the middle of 168 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 12.5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
168 homes sold in three years: 63 detached houses, 47 semi-detached houses, 31 terraced houses and 27 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£385K
median sale · 63 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£440K
Last 12 months
£385K21 sold
New build
£392K
Semi-detached houses£265K
median sale · 47 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£244K–£310K
Last 12 months
£311K12 sold
New build
£257K
Terraced houses£250K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£227K–£275K
Last 12 months
£258K11 sold
New build
£269K
Flats and maisonettes£140K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£120K–£150K
Last 12 months
£130K6 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses38%
Semi-detached houses28%
Terraced houses18%
Flats and maisonettes16%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Rendlesham’s homes sold for between £232K and £355K
One sale in ten was under £140K and one in ten over £439K. 33% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £291,800, sits in the £250–300K band
168 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 12.5 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £24,975 in 1995 to £311,250 in the last 12 months (£238,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
50 sales in the last 12 months, against 175 in 2006, the busiest year, and 38 in 2023. Sales fell by 51% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 5%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 54% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Rendlesham costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Rendlesham, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
—
—
£215K
£249K
£278K
£350K
£385K
Semi-detached houses
—
£58K
£152K
£147K
£186K
£230K
£311K
Terraced houses
£35K
£59K
£120K
£143K
£185K
£178K
£258K
Flats and maisonettes
£23K
£31K
£87K
£103K
£111K
£152K
£130K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
10% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
756 new homes have been sold in Rendlesham since 1995; the share peaked at 71% in 2003.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £345,000
against £265,000 for a home sold on, 30% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
19% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.8% sold leasehold in Rendlesham. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Redwald Road is Rendlesham’s busiest street, with 15 sales in three years
11 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Redwald Road
IP12
15
£225,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Mustang Way
IP12
14
£258,250
Mixed · new builds
3
Lancaster Lane
IP12
13
£349,995
Mixed · new builds
4
Halifax Drive
IP12
9
£377,250
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
Grace Avenue
IP12
7
£425,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
6
Fountain Road
IP12
7
£307,500
Mixed
7
Hercules Road
IP12
7
£250,000
Mixed
8
Suffolk Drive
IP12
6
£310,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Pine Close
IP12
6
£289,500
Mixed
10
Cedar Road
IP12
5
£340,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Avocet Mews
IP12
5
£97,000
Mostly flats
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Suffolk
Rendlesham is the 12th most expensive of 35 towns in Suffolk
Rendlesham is in the middle of Suffolk’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Rendlesham
What is the average house price in Rendlesham?
The median home in Rendlesham sold for £291,800 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 168 standard sales (£311,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £385,000, semi-detached houses £265,000, terraced houses £250,000 and flats and maisonettes £140,000.
Are house prices going up in Rendlesham?
The median was £291,300 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£280,000), and £311,250 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Rendlesham each year?
50 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 63 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Rendlesham?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Grace Avenue (IP12, £425,000), Halifax Drive (IP12, £377,250) and Lancaster Lane (IP12, £349,995).
How much does a new build cost in Rendlesham?
New homes sold for a median £345,000 over three years, against £265,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 26% of sales.
Is Rendlesham expensive for Suffolk?
Rendlesham is the 12th most expensive of 35 towns of 2,500 or more in Suffolk by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.