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Irlam market report M44 6, Manchester
The standing M44 6 (Irlam) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,629 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in M44 6 (Manchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
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 M44 6 (Manchester) sold for £234,000 in 2026, the median of 40 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier. The mean was £236,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,850 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,629 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
M44 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside M44 (Manchester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where M44 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 M44 6 homes really sell for
Take the 40 registered 2026 sales in M44 6 and the middle price, the median, is £234,000. The mean lands at £236,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in M44 6
By floor space, homes in M44 6 have sold for about £2,850 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts M44 6 18% below the country at large.
M44 6'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 | £234,000 | £234,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £234,000 | £239,596 | 185 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 150 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 115 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 176 |
| 2021 | £182,000 | £230,435 | 219 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 136 |
| 2019 | £164,000 | £214,965 | 165 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 175 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 188 |
| 2016 | £141,200 | £197,540 | 194 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 131 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 135 |
| 2013 | £118,000 | £169,790 | 99 |
| 2012 | £117,200 | £172,504 | 96 |
| 2011 | £116,000 | £175,115 | 111 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 119 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 105 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 142 |
| 2007 | £132,000 | £223,909 | 269 |
| 2006 | £122,000 | £211,776 | 331 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 275 |
| 2004 | £116,000 | £210,679 | 317 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 259 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 246 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 201 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 203 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 271 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 190 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 144 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 102 |
| 1995 | £45,800 | £99,562 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical M44 6 home went from £45,800 in 1995 to £234,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 135%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the M44 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 2004 (+45.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−12.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in M44 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 263 sales a year before the financial crisis and 133 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.
The rental side of M44 6
The local authority for M44 6 is Salford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £234,000 median sold price, £1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, a gross yield of 6.0%: 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.
The shape of the M44 6 market
This is a thin market: 40 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.
Asked and answered: M44 6 (Irlam)
How much did a house sell for in M44 6 (Irlam)?
Are property prices falling in M44 6 (Irlam)?
Is M44 6 (Irlam) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to M44 6 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat 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.
On the market in M44 today
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every M44 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in M
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the M area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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.
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.
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 5 | £235,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full M44 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M44 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in M44 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 M44 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from M44 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded M44 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 M44 6.
Take it further
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See every individual M44 6 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.
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.