Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,038 sales registered with HM Land Registry in M12 (Manchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
M12 is the postcode district covering Ardwick, Longsight, Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where M12 sits
Click the map to open M12 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£170,500median sold price, 2026
+14%five-year change (cash)
98sales in the last 12 months
9.5%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in M12 sells for
The 2026 median in M12 is £170,500, from 30 registered sales; the mean, £191,600, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so M12 trades 38% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical M12 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£170,500
£170,500
30
2025
£195,000
£195,000
114
2024
£180,000
£186,907
121
2023
£170,500
£182,963
106
2022
£165,000
£188,963
136
2021
£150,000
£185,484
161
2020
£120,000
£152,066
151
2019
£135,000
£172,820
211
2018
£140,500
£182,915
225
2017
£125,000
£166,506
233
2016
£112,500
£153,713
245
2015
£115,500
£159,390
190
2014
£75,000
£103,916
105
2013
£71,500
£100,479
90
2012
£71,500
£102,781
76
2011
£72,800
£107,333
91
2010
£80,500
£123,296
106
2009
£85,000
£133,447
98
2008
£100,000
£160,093
124
2007
£100,000
£165,666
322
2006
£84,200
£142,747
260
2005
£70,000
£121,662
273
2004
£58,200
£103,234
334
2003
£33,000
£59,374
340
2002
£20,000
£36,751
351
2001
£16,000
£30,041
264
2000
£14,000
£26,833
239
1999
£16,600
£32,310
223
1998
£17,100
£33,711
146
1997
£16,000
£32,046
240
1996
£20,200
£41,606
212
1995
£20,400
£43,311
221
In cash terms the typical M12 home went from £20,400 in 1995 to £170,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 294%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2025; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2025 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M12 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+76.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−20.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−12.6%
−12.6%
5 years (since 2021)
+2.6%
−1.7%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.2%
+1.0%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.6%
+0.9%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
M12 recorded 98 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 298 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around M12
M12 falls under Manchester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,352 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £989 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,989, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Manchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £170,500 median sold price, £1,352 a month is £16,224 a year, a gross yield of 9.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Will M12 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
M12 ranks 28 of 42 in the M area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, M area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside M12, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.