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Atherton market report M46 0, Manchester
The M46 0 (Atherton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,328 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M46 0 (Manchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in M46 0 (Manchester) came in at £177,200, out of 62 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £204,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,280 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,328 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
M46 0 is one sector of M46 (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 M46 0 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 M46 0
The 2026 median for M46 0 is £177,200, taken from 62 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £204,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in M46 0
A square metre of M46 0 home has cost about £2,280 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 M46 0 38% below the national figure.
A typical M46 0 home, priced year by year (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 | £177,200 | £177,200 | 62 |
| 2025 | £188,000 | £192,496 | 241 |
| 2024 | £186,500 | £198,288 | 208 |
| 2023 | £167,000 | £183,492 | 179 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 210 |
| 2021 | £146,000 | £184,855 | 261 |
| 2020 | £141,000 | £182,950 | 214 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 283 |
| 2018 | £151,000 | £201,286 | 338 |
| 2017 | £127,500 | £173,897 | 256 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 181 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 161 |
| 2014 | £94,700 | £134,348 | 148 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 152 |
| 2012 | £84,500 | £124,373 | 116 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 136 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 174 |
| 2009 | £112,000 | £180,041 | 115 |
| 2008 | £108,000 | £177,035 | 198 |
| 2007 | £120,800 | £204,910 | 456 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 452 |
| 2005 | £92,500 | £164,613 | 181 |
| 2004 | £77,200 | £140,210 | 208 |
| 2003 | £67,500 | £124,351 | 264 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 197 |
| 2001 | £42,800 | £82,281 | 180 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 135 |
| 1999 | £35,500 | £70,750 | 113 |
| 1998 | £33,000 | £66,613 | 118 |
| 1997 | £35,500 | £72,803 | 150 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 124 |
| 1995 | £35,500 | £77,172 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical M46 0 home went from £35,500 in 1995 to £177,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M46 0 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 2003 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What M46 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 62 sales completed in M46 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 259 sales a year before the financial crisis and 180 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 M46 0 trades
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. Against the M46 district median, M46 0 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around M46 0
For renting purposes M46 0 sits in Wigan. The ONS average private rent there is £741 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £538 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,137, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wigan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£741 a month is £8,892 a year, which against the £177,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
M46 0 (Atherton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in M46 0 (Atherton)?
Are property prices falling in M46 0 (Atherton)?
Is M46 0 (Atherton) a good place to buy a house?
Will M46 0 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
M46's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 29 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M46 district, not just M46 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% 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.
- Rutland Avenue, Atherton, Manchester
- Blakemore Park, Atherton, Manchester,...
- St Richards Close, Atherton, Manchester, Lancashire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every M46 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: M prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the M area. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the M area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
M area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in M46
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of M46, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M46 9 | £225,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full M46 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M46 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in M46 0? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M46 0'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim M46 0.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to M46 0. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual M46 0 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.