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Irlam market report M44 5, Manchester
The M44 5 (Irlam) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,335 HM Land Registry entries for M44 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 39 registered 2026 sales put the M44 5 (Manchester) median at £235,000, up 41% on five years earlier, with a mean of £243,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,335 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
M44 5 is one sector of M44 (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 M44 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.
The going rate for a home in M44 5
Across 39 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) M44 5 home went for £235,000. The mean is £243,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in M44 5
Per square metre, M44 5 homes have averaged around £2,530 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, M44 5 runs 18% below it.
A typical M44 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 111 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 103 |
| 2023 | £215,000 | £236,233 | 95 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 87 |
| 2021 | £167,000 | £211,444 | 115 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £203,711 | 82 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 112 |
| 2018 | £141,500 | £188,622 | 122 |
| 2017 | £138,000 | £188,218 | 102 |
| 2016 | £134,200 | £187,747 | 120 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 102 |
| 2014 | £117,700 | £166,978 | 116 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 122 |
| 2012 | £157,500 | £231,820 | 136 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 88 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 65 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 50 |
| 2008 | £104,200 | £170,806 | 78 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 149 |
| 2006 | £108,000 | £187,474 | 182 |
| 2005 | £94,000 | £167,282 | 127 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 149 |
| 2003 | £61,500 | £113,298 | 140 |
| 2002 | £46,900 | £88,242 | 126 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 127 |
| 2000 | £43,000 | £84,388 | 109 |
| 1999 | £38,500 | £76,728 | 98 |
| 1998 | £36,800 | £74,283 | 81 |
| 1997 | £39,500 | £81,007 | 81 |
| 1996 | £36,500 | £76,977 | 54 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 67 |
In cash terms the typical M44 5 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 177%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the M44 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 2004 (+38.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−24.1%). 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) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.1% | +2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +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
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.
The register shows 39 M44 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 139 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 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.
Reading the M44 5 market
This is a thin market: 39 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.
What tenants pay around M44 5
M44 5 falls under Salford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,162 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £883 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,761 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Salford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £235,000 median sold price, £1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: 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.
M44 5 (Irlam): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in M44 5 (Irlam)?
Is M44 5 (Irlam) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M44 5 (Irlam)?
Will M44 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 41% over five years in cash and up 11% 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.
What is for sale in M44 right now
The live side of the market holds 3 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M44 district, not just M44 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every M44 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.
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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, M area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in M44
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are M44's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M44 6 | £234,000 | 40 |
Zoom out to the full M44 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M44 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in M44 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in M44 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from M44 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded M44 5 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 M44 5.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about M44 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual M44 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.