The average East Suffolk home was £278,376 in June, up 1.2% on the year but £7,221 below October's peak and falling for a third month. Flats are down 1.5%.

The average home in East Suffolk sold for £278,376 in June, according to figures published this morning by HM Land Registry. That is 1.2% more than a year earlier, and 0.5% less than in May.

It is the third month in a row that the district average has fallen. The number peaked at £285,597 in October 2025, so a typical East Suffolk home is now £7,221 below where it stood nine months ago. (UK House Price Index, East Suffolk)

The June index was released at 9.30am today, 19 August, and is the most recent data available for the district. (UK House Price Index reports, gov.uk)

Flats are the outlier

The district average hides a wide split by property type. Three of the four bands rose over the year; flats and maisonettes fell.

Bar chart of the annual change in East Suffolk house prices to June 2026 by property type: semi-detached up 2.0 per cent to an average of 265,776 pounds, terraced up 1.9 per cent to 205,795 pounds, detached up 0.6 per cent to 405,565 pounds, and flats and maisonettes down 1.5 per cent to 140,660 pounds
Graphic by Suffolk Coast News.
Property type Average, June 2026 Change on the year
Detached £405,565 +0.6%
Semi-detached £265,776 +2.0%
Terraced £205,795 +1.9%
Flat or maisonette £140,660 -1.5%

Semi-detached homes did best in percentage terms. Flats have now been falling for some time: the same measure was down 2.1% in May and 2.7% in April.

How the coast compares with its neighbours

East Suffolk grew more slowly than the county and more slowly than England. Mid Suffolk, inland to the west, is the fastest-rising district in the county by a wide margin.

Area Average, June 2026 Change on the year
Mid Suffolk £320,276 +5.8%
Babergh £328,612 +1.9%
West Suffolk £296,879 +1.6%
East Suffolk £278,376 +1.2%
Ipswich £219,070 -1.1%
Suffolk as a whole £281,974 +1.8%
England £293,262 +1.8%

Ipswich is the only Suffolk district where the average is lower than a year ago. It is also the cheapest, which matters for anyone on this coast weighing a move inland to buy more house.

First-time buyers

The average first-time-buyer purchase in East Suffolk was £227,489, up 1.6% on the year. The equivalent figure for Suffolk as a whole was £231,538, and for England £245,450.

That £227,489 is well above the district’s average terraced price of £205,795 and far above the average flat at £140,660, which is a reminder that the first-time-buyer figure is an average of what first-time buyers actually paid, not the price of the cheapest thing available.

What it means for you

  • If you are selling, the district has been drifting down since the autumn, not since June. Three consecutive monthly falls is a trend rather than a blip, and an asking price set from a 2025 comparable is likely to be high.
  • If you are buying a flat, you are the one part of this market where the annual figure is negative. Felixstowe and Lowestoft hold most of the district’s flats.
  • If you are comparing towns, do not use this number. The district stretches from Felixstowe to Lowestoft, so a single average tells you very little about Aldeburgh or Leiston. Our Woodbridge house prices page breaks the same Land Registry data down by civil parish, where the middle sale ranges from £228,250 in Leiston to £525,000 in Aldeburgh.

Two things to know about this figure

It is a mean, not a median. The UK House Price Index averages every recorded sale, so a handful of very large sales pulls it upward. The £3.2m detached house sold in Aldeburgh in the last year counts the same as any other transaction. A median, the middle sale, is usually the more useful number for a buyer, and it is lower.

Recent months get revised. The Land Registry updates earlier figures as more completions are registered. The May average for East Suffolk was published as £279,914 last month and now reads £279,688.

All figures above are from the UK House Price Index, published by HM Land Registry under the Open Government Licence.

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