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Arndale market report M4 6, Manchester
The M4 6 (Arndale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,014 registered sales in M4 6 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in M4 6 (Manchester) sold for £305,000 in 2026, the median of 39 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £308,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,110 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,014 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
M4 6 is one sector of M4 (Manchester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where M4 6 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 M4 6 homes really sell for
The M4 6 median stands at £305,000 for 2026, built from 39 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £308,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in M4 6
A square metre of M4 6 home has cost about £4,110 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, M4 6 runs 7% above it.
The price of a typical M4 6 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £305,000 | £305,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £297,500 | £304,614 | 95 |
| 2024 | £277,800 | £295,358 | 74 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 58 |
| 2022 | £296,000 | £347,094 | 94 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 173 |
| 2020 | £268,200 | £347,995 | 182 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 236 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 90 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 53 |
| 2016 | £179,500 | £251,122 | 128 |
| 2015 | £145,600 | £205,733 | 71 |
| 2014 | £151,000 | £214,220 | 147 |
| 2013 | £119,000 | £171,229 | 62 |
| 2012 | £117,800 | £173,387 | 42 |
| 2011 | £153,000 | £230,971 | 42 |
| 2010 | £132,600 | £207,951 | 119 |
| 2009 | £128,700 | £206,886 | 97 |
| 2008 | £166,500 | £272,929 | 85 |
| 2007 | £158,800 | £269,369 | 78 |
| 2006 | £161,500 | £280,343 | 25 |
| 2005 | £80,000 | £142,368 | 3 |
| 2004 | £40,500 | £73,556 | 4 |
| 2003 | £104,500 | £192,514 | 7 |
| 2002 | £37,300 | £70,180 | 4 |
| 2001 | £30,000 | £57,673 | 1 |
| 2000 | £31,000 | £60,838 | 1 |
| 1998 | £27,400 | £55,309 | 2 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 1 |
| 1995 | £18,000 | £39,129 | 1 |
In cash terms the typical M4 6 home went from £18,000 in 1995 to £305,000 in 2026, roughly 17 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 679%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M4 6 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 2003 (+180.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2004 (−61.2%). 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) | +2.5% | +0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in M4 6
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 39 M4 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 72 sales a year over the last five years against 15 before the financial crisis. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How M4 6 trades
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes M4 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within M4, this sector trades 44% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around M4 6
The local authority for M4 6 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.
£1,352 a month is £16,224 a year, which against the £305,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on M4 6 (Arndale)
Is M4 6 (Arndale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M4 6 (Arndale)?
Are property prices falling in M4 6 (Arndale)?
What happens to M4 6 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in M4 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 74 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M4 district, not just M4 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
59% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Albion Works, 12 Pollard Street, Manchester, M4 7AU
- Barton Place, 3 Hornbeam Way, Manches...
"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 M4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in M
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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the M area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the M area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in M4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are M4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M4 1 | £195,000 | 21 |
| M4 4 | £205,000 | 27 |
| M4 5 | £247,500 | 16 |
| M4 7 | £205,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full M4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in M4 6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in M4 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from M4 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded M4 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim M4 6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M4 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M4 6 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.