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Middleton market report M24, Manchester
The M24 (Middleton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 21,184 registered sales in M24 (Manchester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in M24 (Manchester) came in at £215,000, out of 248 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £236,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,670 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 21,184 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
M24 is a postcode district covering Middleton, Alkrington, Chadderton in Manchester. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where M24 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.
What a home in M24 sells for
Take the 248 registered 2026 sales in M24 and the middle price, the median, is £215,000. The mean lands at £236,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in M24
By floor space, homes in M24 have sold for about £2,670 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, M24 sits 25% below the national market.
M24's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 248 |
| 2025 | £237,200 | £242,872 | 690 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 608 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 540 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 830 |
| 2021 | £193,000 | £244,363 | 929 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 638 |
| 2019 | £151,000 | £197,925 | 837 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 745 |
| 2017 | £126,000 | £171,851 | 689 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 677 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 568 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 493 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 448 |
| 2012 | £99,800 | £146,893 | 370 |
| 2011 | £111,500 | £168,322 | 461 |
| 2010 | £96,000 | £150,553 | 391 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 393 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 473 |
| 2007 | £113,300 | £192,188 | 997 |
| 2006 | £96,500 | £167,512 | 909 |
| 2005 | £91,000 | £161,943 | 757 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 854 |
| 2003 | £56,700 | £104,455 | 804 |
| 2002 | £49,000 | £92,193 | 931 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 860 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 722 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 783 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 703 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 583 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 670 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 583 |
In cash terms the typical M24 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M24 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 (+41.1% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−11.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £365,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, M24
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £365,000 | 35 | 2,709 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 106 | 8,962 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 90 | 7,750 |
| Flats | £110,000 | 17 | 1,763 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −9.4% | −11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.5% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.0% | +2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 485 sales completed in M24. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 854 sales a year before the financial crisis and 583 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.
The shape of the M24 market
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.
The rental side of M24
For renting purposes M24 sits in Rochdale. The ONS average private rent there is £829 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £603 a month here against £1,338 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £215,000 median purchase price, a rent of £829 a month (£9,948 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
Common questions on M24 (Middleton)
How much did a house sell for in M24 (Middleton)?
Are property prices falling in M24 (Middleton)?
Is M24 (Middleton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to M24 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in M24 now
Everything above is what homes in M24 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 105 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the M24 median sold price.
Set against 485 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 105 homes on the market here are roughly 3 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
9% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Manchester New Road, Alkrington, Manchester, M24, Manchester
- West Green, Middleton, Manchester, Manchester
- Taylor Street, Alkrington, Middleton M24, Middleton
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every M24 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
When homes in M24 change hands
Take the 3,597 M24 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.3% of the total, January trails with 6.6%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 239 | 6.6% |
| February | 286 | 8.0% |
| March | 369 | 10.3% |
| April | 244 | 6.8% |
| May | 251 | 7.0% |
| June | 336 | 9.3% |
| July | 298 | 8.3% |
| August | 317 | 8.8% |
| September | 364 | 10.1% |
| October | 313 | 8.7% |
| November | 253 | 7.0% |
| December | 327 | 9.1% |
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £240,000 | £277,250 (+16%) | £337,500 (+22%) | £416,000 (+23%) | £574,995 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £193,000 | £225,000 (+17%) | £272,000 (+21%) | £355,000 (+31%) | £500,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £180,000 | £190,000 (+6%) | £220,350 (+16%) | £262,000 (+19%) | £352,400 (+35%) |
| Flat | £155,000 | £177,500 (+15%) | £250,000 (+41%) | £295,750 (+18%) | £380,000 (+28%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
M24 ranks 32 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 M24, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M24 1 | £268,500 | 42 |
| M24 2 | £190,000 | 71 |
| M24 4 | £233,000 | 46 |
| M24 5 | £225,000 | 57 |
| M24 6 | £191,500 | 32 |
How M24 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the M area, and M24 itself, which ranks 28 of 42 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| M33 | £410,000 | +27% |
| M21 | £407,500 | +21% |
| M20 | £365,000 | +19% |
| M41 | £345,700 | +20% |
| M16 | £300,000 | +30% |
| M25 | £297,500 | +14% |
| M7 | £297,000 | +35% |
| M32 | £290,000 | +21% |
| M28 | £285,000 | +12% |
| M19 | £277,500 | +23% |
| M45 | £275,000 | +24% |
| M23 | £265,000 | +33% |
| M2 | £257,800 | -34% |
| M22 | £246,500 | +28% |
| M14 | £245,000 | +29% |
| M27 | £245,000 | +23% |
| M29 | £240,000 | +20% |
| M35 | £239,000 | +29% |
| M6 | £235,000 | +18% |
| M30 | £233,500 | +18% |
| M40 | £228,000 | +37% |
| M44 | £228,000 | +27% |
| M43 | £225,000 | +29% |
| M24 (this report) | £215,000 | +11% |
Selling a home in M24? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in M24, open the average prices map and zoom from the M24 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded M24 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual M24 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.