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Carrington market report M31, Manchester
The standing M31 (Carrington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,609 HM Land Registry entries for M31 (Manchester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in M31 (Manchester) came in at £205,000, out of 17 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £209,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,609 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
M31 is a postcode district covering Carrington, Partington 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 M31 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 M31 sells for
The M31 median stands at £205,000 for 2026, built from 17 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £209,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in M31
A square metre of M31 home has cost about £2,830 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, M31 runs 28% below it.
The price of a typical M31 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £252,000 | £258,026 | 147 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 144 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 101 |
| 2022 | £217,000 | £254,457 | 141 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 109 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 69 |
| 2019 | £158,000 | £207,100 | 77 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 81 |
| 2017 | £138,000 | £188,218 | 79 |
| 2016 | £121,500 | £169,980 | 77 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 66 |
| 2014 | £111,000 | £157,473 | 70 |
| 2013 | £101,500 | £146,048 | 53 |
| 2012 | £97,000 | £142,772 | 36 |
| 2011 | £93,000 | £140,394 | 39 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 41 |
| 2009 | £98,800 | £158,822 | 38 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 57 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 122 |
| 2006 | £114,500 | £198,757 | 128 |
| 2005 | £95,500 | £169,952 | 75 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 117 |
| 2003 | £74,000 | £136,326 | 126 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 119 |
| 2001 | £48,500 | £93,239 | 101 |
| 2000 | £47,100 | £92,434 | 72 |
| 1999 | £45,200 | £90,081 | 102 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 61 |
| 1997 | £41,500 | £85,108 | 59 |
| 1996 | £38,500 | £81,195 | 40 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 45 |
In cash terms the typical M31 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M31 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 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −18.7% | −20.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
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, 49% of the typed total. In 2006, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £159,000 against £121,500 for a flat, a 31% premium.
Median by property type, M31
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 | £362,700 (2025) | – | 232 |
| Semi-detached | £267,500 (2025) | – | 1,244 |
| Terraced | £185,000 | 13 | 998 |
| Flats | £121,500 (2006) | – | 53 |
How many homes change hands in M31
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 85 M31 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 110 sales a year recently, against 108 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around M31
For renting purposes M31 sits in Trafford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,362 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £938 a month here against £2,098 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Trafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £205,000 median sold price, £1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, a gross yield of 8.0%: 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.
The shape of the M31 market
Only 85 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes M31 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. Among the 42 measurable districts of its area, M31 ranks 33 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Asked and answered: M31 (Carrington)
How much did a house sell for in M31 (Carrington)?
Are property prices falling in M31 (Carrington)?
Is M31 (Carrington) a good place to buy a house?
Searches that land here, answered
These are the recorded searches for the wider M report family, answered with this page's own figures.
People ask average house price increase manchester since 2020
. From the register: £175,000 in 2020 against £205,000 in 2026, which is a rise of 17% in cash (down 10% after inflation).
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What happens to M31 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in M31 today
Everything above is what homes in M31 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 3 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the M31 median sold price.
33% 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.
See every M31 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in M
Real sold prices by size across the M area, straight 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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
M31 ranks 34 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 M31, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M31 4 | £205,000 | 17 |
How M31 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the M area, and M31 itself, which ranks 33 of 42 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| M21 | £410,000 | +22% |
| M33 | £410,000 | +27% |
| M20 | £360,000 | +17% |
| M41 | £346,400 | +20% |
| M16 | £314,500 | +37% |
| M7 | £296,000 | +35% |
| M25 | £293,500 | +13% |
| M32 | £290,000 | +21% |
| M28 | £285,000 | +12% |
| M19 | £276,000 | +23% |
| M45 | £275,000 | +24% |
| M23 | £266,000 | +33% |
| M2 | £257,800 | -34% |
| M13 | £250,000 | +2% |
| M14 | £245,000 | +29% |
| M27 | £243,500 | +22% |
| M22 | £242,000 | +26% |
| M35 | £238,000 | +29% |
| M44 | £235,000 | +31% |
| M6 | £232,500 | +16% |
| M29 | £232,500 | +16% |
| M30 | £230,000 | +17% |
| M40 | £230,000 | +38% |
| M31 (this report) | £205,000 | +3% |
Before you sell in M31: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M31'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim M31.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to M31. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual M31 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.