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Urmston market report M41 8, Manchester
The M41 8 (Urmston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,157 HM Land Registry entries for M41 8 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 29 registered 2026 sales put the M41 8 (Manchester) median at £340,000, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £364,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,820 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,157 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like M41 8 is a single group of streets within M41 (Manchester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where M41 8 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.
Today's M41 8 prices, from the sold record
Take the 29 registered 2026 sales in M41 8 and the middle price, the median, is £340,000. The mean lands at £364,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in M41 8
The last five years of sales put M41 8 at roughly £3,820 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving M41 8 19% above the national figure.
The price of a typical M41 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 93 |
| 2024 | £327,500 | £348,200 | 92 |
| 2023 | £305,000 | £335,121 | 67 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 104 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 127 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 88 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 111 |
| 2018 | £244,000 | £325,257 | 110 |
| 2017 | £212,800 | £290,238 | 123 |
| 2016 | £218,700 | £305,963 | 104 |
| 2015 | £192,000 | £271,296 | 87 |
| 2014 | £185,500 | £263,164 | 129 |
| 2013 | £166,500 | £239,577 | 94 |
| 2012 | £167,200 | £246,098 | 68 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 69 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 71 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 57 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 48 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 109 |
| 2006 | £162,500 | £282,079 | 139 |
| 2005 | £159,400 | £283,668 | 102 |
| 2004 | £146,500 | £266,073 | 128 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 120 |
| 2002 | £96,000 | £180,623 | 130 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 113 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 121 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 108 |
| 1998 | £59,700 | £120,509 | 132 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 87 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 105 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical M41 8 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 213%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M41 8 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 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). 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) | −2.9% | −5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in M41 8
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
M41 8 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 a year over the last five. 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 M41 8 trades
This is a thin market: 29 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. 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.
What homes rent for around M41 8
The local authority for M41 8 is Trafford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,362 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £938 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,098, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Trafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £340,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,362 a month (£16,344 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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 people ask about M41 8 (Urmston)
Is M41 8 (Urmston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M41 8 (Urmston)?
Are property prices falling in M41 8 (Urmston)?
Where do M41 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.
On the market in M41 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 16 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M41 district, not just M41 8: 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" 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 M41 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
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%) | — |
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
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 M41
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are M41's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M41 0 | £394,200 | 32 |
| M41 5 | £365,000 | 45 |
| M41 6 | £325,000 | 25 |
| M41 7 | £322,500 | 22 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in M41 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M41 8'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.
Estate agents working M41 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim M41 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M41 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual M41 8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.