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M41 local market report Manchester

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 21,542 sales registered with HM Land Registry in M41 (Manchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

M41 is the postcode district covering Urmston, Davyhulme, Flixton in Manchester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.

Where M41 sits

Click the map to open M41 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.

M30M31M17M33M32M44M50M5M6M29M21M16M7M15M3M2M20M1M14M41
£340,000median sold price, 2026
+20%five-year change (cash)
504sales in the last 12 months
4.8%gross rental yield (est.)

What a home in M41 sells for

The 2026 median in M41 is £340,000, from 159 registered sales; the mean, £360,700, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so M41 trades 24% above the country as a whole.

The price of a typical M41 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.

Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
£125k£250k£375k£500k1995200020052010201520202026 1995: £50,500 at the time · £107,215 in today's money · 578 sales1996: £50,000 at the time · £102,985 in today's money · 674 sales1997: £55,000 at the time · £110,160 in today's money · 748 sales1998: £57,500 at the time · £113,357 in today's money · 782 sales1999: £62,500 at the time · £121,650 in today's money · 848 sales2000: £71,500 at the time · £137,042 in today's money · 757 sales2001: £85,000 at the time · £159,592 in today's money · 814 sales2002: £95,000 at the time · £174,567 in today's money · 914 sales2003: £117,000 at the time · £210,508 in today's money · 900 sales2004: £140,000 at the time · £248,329 in today's money · 798 sales2005: £150,000 at the time · £260,705 in today's money · 661 sales2006: £160,000 at the time · £271,253 in today's money · 886 sales2007: £168,000 at the time · £278,319 in today's money · 798 sales2008: £165,000 at the time · £264,153 in today's money · 372 sales2009: £150,000 at the time · £235,495 in today's money · 443 sales2010: £162,000 at the time · £248,124 in today's money · 470 sales2011: £163,000 at the time · £240,321 in today's money · 477 sales2012: £160,800 at the time · £231,150 in today's money · 530 sales2013: £166,000 at the time · £233,279 in today's money · 605 sales2014: £183,000 at the time · £253,554 in today's money · 771 sales2015: £190,000 at the time · £262,200 in today's money · 706 sales2016: £215,000 at the time · £293,762 in today's money · 843 sales2017: £230,000 at the time · £306,371 in today's money · 735 sales2018: £245,000 at the time · £318,962 in today's money · 717 sales2019: £258,100 at the time · £330,406 in today's money · 672 sales2020: £275,000 at the time · £348,485 in today's money · 637 sales2021: £284,000 at the time · £351,183 in today's money · 912 sales2022: £317,200 at the time · £363,266 in today's money · 672 sales2023: £310,000 at the time · £332,659 in today's money · 454 sales2024: £320,000 at the time · £332,280 in today's money · 619 sales2025: £335,000 at the time · £335,000 in today's money · 590 sales2026: £340,000 at the time · £340,000 in today's money · 159 sales
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YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2026£340,000£340,000159
2025£335,000£335,000590
2024£320,000£332,280619
2023£310,000£332,659454
2022£317,200£363,266672
2021£284,000£351,183912
2020£275,000£348,485637
2019£258,100£330,406672
2018£245,000£318,962717
2017£230,000£306,371735
2016£215,000£293,762843
2015£190,000£262,200706
2014£183,000£253,554771
2013£166,000£233,279605
2012£160,800£231,150530
2011£163,000£240,321477
2010£162,000£248,124470
2009£150,000£235,495443
2008£165,000£264,153372
2007£168,000£278,319798
2006£160,000£271,253886
2005£150,000£260,705661
2004£140,000£248,329798
2003£117,000£210,508900
2002£95,000£174,567914
2001£85,000£159,592814
2000£71,500£137,042757
1999£62,500£121,650848
1998£57,500£113,357782
1997£55,000£110,160748
1996£50,000£102,985674
1995£50,500£107,215578

In cash terms the typical M41 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 217%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

Year-on-year change in the M41 median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+25% -25% 0% 1996 · −1.0% on the year before1997 · +10.0% on the year before1998 · +4.5% on the year before1999 · +8.7% on the year before2000 · +14.4% on the year before2001 · +18.9% on the year before2002 · +11.8% on the year before2003 · +23.2% on the year before2004 · +19.7% on the year before2005 · +7.1% on the year before2006 · +6.7% on the year before2007 · +5.0% on the year before2008 · −1.8% on the year before2009 · −9.1% on the year before2010 · +8.0% on the year before2011 · +0.6% on the year before2012 · −1.3% on the year before2013 · +3.2% on the year before2014 · +10.2% on the year before2015 · +3.8% on the year before2016 · +13.2% on the year before2017 · +7.0% on the year before2018 · +6.5% on the year before2019 · +5.3% on the year before2020 · +6.5% on the year before2021 · +3.3% on the year before2022 · +11.7% on the year before2023 · −2.3% on the year before2024 · +3.2% on the year before2025 · +4.7% on the year before2026 · +1.5% on the year before200020052010201520202026

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+23.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)+1.5%+1.5%
5 years (since 2021)+3.7%−0.6%
10 years (since 2016)+4.7%+1.5%
20 years (since 2006)+3.8%+1.1%

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

Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.

5001,000 1995: 578 sales1996: 674 sales1997: 748 sales1998: 782 sales1999: 848 sales2000: 757 sales2001: 814 sales2002: 914 sales2003: 900 sales2004: 798 sales2005: 661 sales2006: 886 sales2007: 798 sales2008: 372 sales2009: 443 sales2010: 470 sales2011: 477 sales2012: 530 sales2013: 605 sales2014: 771 sales2015: 706 sales2016: 843 sales2017: 735 sales2018: 717 sales2019: 672 sales2020: 637 sales2021: 912 sales2022: 672 sales2023: 454 sales2024: 619 sales2025: 590 sales2026: 159 sales1995200020052010201520202026

The last five years, month by month

Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.

100200 June 2021 · 151 sales registeredJuly 2021 · 37 sales registeredAugust 2021 · 64 sales registeredSeptember 2021 · 116 sales registeredOctober 2021 · 34 sales registeredNovember 2021 · 49 sales registeredDecember 2021 · 60 sales registeredJanuary 2022 · 41 sales registeredFebruary 2022 · 66 sales registeredMarch 2022 · 68 sales registeredApril 2022 · 56 sales registeredMay 2022 · 56 sales registeredJune 2022 · 48 sales registeredJuly 2022 · 64 sales registeredAugust 2022 · 60 sales registeredSeptember 2022 · 65 sales registeredOctober 2022 · 47 sales registeredNovember 2022 · 49 sales registeredDecember 2022 · 52 sales registeredJanuary 2023 · 29 sales registeredFebruary 2023 · 20 sales registeredMarch 2023 · 35 sales registeredApril 2023 · 37 sales registeredMay 2023 · 30 sales registeredJune 2023 · 45 sales registeredJuly 2023 · 38 sales registeredAugust 2023 · 46 sales registeredSeptember 2023 · 46 sales registeredOctober 2023 · 34 sales registeredNovember 2023 · 42 sales registeredDecember 2023 · 52 sales registeredJanuary 2024 · 40 sales registeredFebruary 2024 · 49 sales registeredMarch 2024 · 36 sales registeredApril 2024 · 44 sales registeredMay 2024 · 50 sales registeredJune 2024 · 36 sales registeredJuly 2024 · 67 sales registeredAugust 2024 · 68 sales registeredSeptember 2024 · 56 sales registeredOctober 2024 · 71 sales registeredNovember 2024 · 51 sales registeredDecember 2024 · 51 sales registeredJanuary 2025 · 51 sales registeredFebruary 2025 · 44 sales registeredMarch 2025 · 88 sales registeredApril 2025 · 25 sales registeredMay 2025 · 37 sales registeredJune 2025 · 51 sales registeredJuly 2025 · 65 sales registeredAugust 2025 · 49 sales registeredSeptember 2025 · 29 sales registeredOctober 2025 · 70 sales registeredNovember 2025 · 37 sales registeredDecember 2025 · 44 sales registeredJanuary 2026 · 41 sales registeredFebruary 2026 · 30 sales registeredMarch 2026 · 35 sales registeredApril 2026 · 29 sales registeredMay 2026 · 24 sales registered

M41 recorded 504 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 816 sales a year before the financial crisis and 499 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

What homes rent for around M41

M41 falls under Trafford, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.

1 bed: £938 a month£9381 bed2 bed: £1,195 a month£1,1952 bed3 bed: £1,474 a month£1,4743 bed4+ bed: £2,098 a month£2,0984+ bed

Set against the £340,000 median sold price, £1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.

Will M41 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers

M41 ranks 24 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.

M17M17 · +43% over five years · median £2,854,400+43%M38M38 · +43% over five years · median £171,000+43%M9M9 · +41% over five years · median £190,000+41%M46M46 · +36% over five years · median £190,000+36%M23M23 · +35% over five years · median £265,000+35%M41M41 · +20% over five years · median £340,000+20%M5M5 · −18% over five years · median £165,000−18%M3M3 · −20% over five years · median £200,000−20%M4M4 · −22% over five years · median £203,800−22%M15M15 · −36% over five years · median £207,400−36%M2M2 · −76% over five years · median £691,500−76%

Inside M41, street group by street group

Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.

SectorMedian (latest)Sales that year
M41 0£346,00028
M41 5£372,50028
M41 6£320,00020
M41 7£304,00019
M41 8£320,00029
M41 9£389,00035

How M41 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the M area, dearest first:

DistrictMedian5-year
M17£2,854,400+43%
M2£691,500-76%
M21£397,500+19%
M33£387,500+23%
M20£369,000+23%
M41 (this report)£340,000+20%
M32£295,000+26%
M25£283,000+13%
M45£280,000+30%
M19£275,500+25%
M7£275,000+34%
M16£272,500+24%
M23£265,000+35%
M28£265,000+8%
M13£250,000+11%
M27£238,000+24%
M22£237,500+28%
M14£235,000+26%
M29£230,000+21%
M44£228,000+30%
M30£225,000+23%
M1£220,000-12%
M35£213,800+24%
M15£207,400-36%

Dig further

See every individual M41 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference M41 price page. 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.

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.