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Urmston market report M41 5, Manchester
The M41 5 (Urmston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,654 HM Land Registry entries for M41 5 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for M41 5 (Manchester) is £365,000, from 45 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £386,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,654 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
M41 5 is one sector of M41 (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 M41 5 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 buyers actually paid in M41 5
In the M41 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £365,000, from 45 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £386,300, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
M41 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of M41 5 home has cost about £3,640 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving M41 5 28% above the national figure.
M41 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £365,000 | £365,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 90 |
| 2024 | £345,000 | £366,806 | 81 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 67 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 101 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 139 |
| 2020 | £305,000 | £395,744 | 89 |
| 2019 | £274,500 | £359,804 | 117 |
| 2018 | £249,700 | £332,855 | 128 |
| 2017 | £248,000 | £338,247 | 139 |
| 2016 | £242,000 | £338,560 | 125 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 108 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 138 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 115 |
| 2012 | £181,200 | £266,704 | 96 |
| 2011 | £170,800 | £257,842 | 84 |
| 2010 | £163,000 | £255,626 | 102 |
| 2009 | £143,000 | £229,874 | 105 |
| 2008 | £174,500 | £286,042 | 70 |
| 2007 | £176,500 | £299,393 | 150 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 127 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 115 |
| 2004 | £149,500 | £271,521 | 140 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 157 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 163 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 151 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 130 |
| 1999 | £63,800 | £127,150 | 150 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 126 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 130 |
| 1996 | £52,100 | £109,877 | 108 |
| 1995 | £48,800 | £106,084 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical M41 5 home went from £48,800 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 244%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the M41 5 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 2001 (+25.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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.
M41 5 recorded 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 142 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 rental side of M41 5
The local authority for M41 5 is Trafford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,362 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £365,000 median sold price, £1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
How M41 5 trades
This is a thin market: 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Common questions on M41 5 (Urmston)
Is M41 5 (Urmston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M41 5 (Urmston)?
Are property prices falling in M41 5 (Urmston)?
Where do M41 5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in M41 now
The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M41 district, not just M41 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 M41 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.
What another bedroom costs in M
What homes of each size actually sold for across the M area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the M area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in M41
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of M41, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M41 0 | £394,200 | 32 |
| M41 6 | £325,000 | 25 |
| M41 7 | £322,500 | 22 |
| M41 8 | £340,000 | 29 |
| M41 9 | £355,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full M41 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M41 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in M41 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in M41 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the M41 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded M41 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working M41 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim M41 5.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about M41 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M41 5 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.