diff --git a/docs/sanic/request_data.md b/docs/sanic/request_data.md
index e778faf6..4f6bc970 100644
--- a/docs/sanic/request_data.md
+++ b/docs/sanic/request_data.md
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ The following variables are accessible as properties on `Request` objects:
 
 - `ip` (str) - IP address of the requester.
 
+- `port` (str) - Port address of the requester.
+
+- `socket` (tuple) - (IP, port) of the requester.
+
 - `app` - a reference to the Sanic application object that is handling this request. This is useful when inside blueprints or other handlers in modules that do not have access to the global `app` object.
 
   ```python
diff --git a/sanic/request.py b/sanic/request.py
index 26f19baf..d4f6dc6f 100644
--- a/sanic/request.py
+++ b/sanic/request.py
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ class Request(dict):
     __slots__ = (
         'app', 'headers', 'version', 'method', '_cookies', 'transport',
         'body', 'parsed_json', 'parsed_args', 'parsed_form', 'parsed_files',
-        '_ip', '_parsed_url', 'uri_template', 'stream', '_remote_addr'
+        '_ip', '_parsed_url', 'uri_template', 'stream', '_remote_addr',
+        '_socket', '_port'
     )
 
     def __init__(self, url_bytes, headers, version, method, transport):
@@ -167,11 +168,27 @@ class Request(dict):
 
     @property
     def ip(self):
-        if not hasattr(self, '_ip'):
-            self._ip = (self.transport.get_extra_info('peername') or
-                        (None, None))
+        if not hasattr(self, '_socket'):
+            self._get_address()
         return self._ip
 
+    @property
+    def port(self):
+        if not hasattr(self, '_socket'):
+            self._get_address()
+        return self._port
+
+    @property
+    def socket(self):
+        if not hasattr(self, '_socket'):
+            self._get_socket()
+        return self._socket
+
+    def _get_address(self):
+        self._socket = (self.transport.get_extra_info('peername') or
+                        (None, None))
+        self._ip, self._port = self._socket
+
     @property
     def remote_addr(self):
         """Attempt to return the original client ip based on X-Forwarded-For.
diff --git a/tests/test_requests.py b/tests/test_requests.py
index f0696c7f..e47520c4 100644
--- a/tests/test_requests.py
+++ b/tests/test_requests.py
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ def test_sync():
 
     assert response.text == 'Hello'
 
+def test_remote_address():
+    app = Sanic('test_text')
+
+    @app.route('/')
+    def handler(request):
+        return text("{}".format(request.ip))
+
+    request, response = app.test_client.get('/')
+
+    assert response.text == '127.0.0.1'
 
 def test_text():
     app = Sanic('test_text')