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Abbey Hey market report M18 7, Manchester
The standing M18 7 (Abbey Hey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,307 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M18 7 (Manchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for M18 7 (Manchester) is £211,500, from 22 registered sales, up 41% on five years earlier; the mean is £218,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,500 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,307 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
M18 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside M18 (Manchester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where M18 7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in M18 7
The M18 7 median stands at £211,500 for 2026, built from 22 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £218,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
M18 7 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in M18 7 have sold for about £2,500 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so M18 7 trades 26% below the country as a whole.
M18 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £211,500 | £211,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £209,000 | £213,998 | 78 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 89 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 171 |
| 2022 | £193,000 | £226,315 | 145 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 119 |
| 2020 | £142,000 | £184,248 | 107 |
| 2019 | £160,200 | £209,984 | 200 |
| 2018 | £119,000 | £158,629 | 109 |
| 2017 | £108,000 | £147,301 | 108 |
| 2016 | £99,700 | £139,481 | 121 |
| 2015 | £80,000 | £113,040 | 121 |
| 2014 | £75,000 | £106,401 | 122 |
| 2013 | £83,000 | £119,429 | 104 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 112 |
| 2011 | £88,000 | £132,846 | 135 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 128 |
| 2009 | £89,500 | £143,872 | 129 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 182 |
| 2007 | £98,000 | £166,235 | 294 |
| 2006 | £84,000 | £145,813 | 307 |
| 2005 | £68,500 | £121,902 | 273 |
| 2004 | £51,800 | £94,079 | 380 |
| 2003 | £33,800 | £62,268 | 336 |
| 2002 | £25,000 | £47,037 | 284 |
| 2001 | £25,500 | £49,022 | 255 |
| 2000 | £23,000 | £45,138 | 217 |
| 1999 | £20,000 | £39,859 | 204 |
| 1998 | £22,000 | £44,409 | 99 |
| 1997 | £20,000 | £41,016 | 115 |
| 1996 | £19,000 | £40,070 | 129 |
| 1995 | £20,200 | £43,912 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical M18 7 home went from £20,200 in 1995 to £211,500 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 382%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the M18 7 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 (+53.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−21.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What M18 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.1% | +2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.8% | +4.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in M18 7
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 22 M18 7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 293 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around M18 7
The local authority for M18 7 is Manchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £211,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,352 a month (£16,224 a year) works out at a 7.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market M18 7 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes M18 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
M18 7 (Abbey Hey): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in M18 7 (Abbey Hey)?
Are property prices falling in M18 7 (Abbey Hey)?
Is M18 7 (Abbey Hey) a good place to buy a house?
Are M18 7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 41% over five years in cash and up 11% 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.
M18's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 19 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M18 district, not just M18 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Sunny Brow Road, Gorton, Manchester, M18
- Turnbull Road, Gorton, Tameside
- Flemish Crescent, Gorton, Manchester, M18, Manchester
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every M18 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in M: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the M area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £282,000 | £395,000 (+40%) | £625,000 (+58%) | £810,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | £240,000 (+20%) | £310,000 (+29%) | £450,000 (+45%) | £635,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £181,725 | £199,300 (+10%) | £246,000 (+23%) | £350,000 (+42%) | £455,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £160,000 | £233,000 (+46%) | £330,000 (+42%) | £590,000 (+79%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the M area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
M area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in M18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of M18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M18 8 | £193,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full M18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in M18 7? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M18 7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim M18 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M18 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M18 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.