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Atherton market report M46 9, Manchester
The M46 9 (Atherton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,477 registered sales in M46 9 (Manchester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in M46 9 (Manchester) sold for £225,000 in 2026, the median of 47 registered sales, up 47% on five years earlier. The mean was £240,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,340 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,477 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like M46 9 is a single group of streets within M46 (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 M46 9 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 a home in M46 9 sells for
47 sales were registered in M46 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £225,000. The mean works out at £240,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in M46 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in M46 9 costs about £2,340 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, M46 9 sits 21% below the national market.
The price of a typical M46 9 home, 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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 138 |
| 2024 | £182,000 | £193,503 | 141 |
| 2023 | £162,000 | £177,998 | 120 |
| 2022 | £175,500 | £205,794 | 157 |
| 2021 | £153,500 | £194,351 | 145 |
| 2020 | £142,000 | £184,248 | 103 |
| 2019 | £122,200 | £160,175 | 142 |
| 2018 | £117,800 | £157,030 | 152 |
| 2017 | £118,000 | £160,940 | 161 |
| 2016 | £111,200 | £155,570 | 146 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 130 |
| 2014 | £99,800 | £141,584 | 126 |
| 2013 | £105,800 | £152,236 | 102 |
| 2012 | £98,000 | £144,244 | 101 |
| 2011 | £102,100 | £154,132 | 86 |
| 2010 | £97,500 | £152,905 | 87 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 83 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 111 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 211 |
| 2006 | £103,500 | £179,663 | 185 |
| 2005 | £88,000 | £156,605 | 133 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 186 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 219 |
| 2002 | £47,000 | £88,430 | 215 |
| 2001 | £52,500 | £100,929 | 197 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 179 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 144 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 148 |
| 1997 | £42,200 | £86,544 | 128 |
| 1996 | £37,700 | £79,508 | 134 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical M46 9 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the M46 9 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.0%). 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) | +21.6% | +18.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.9% | +3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.3% | +3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
The register shows 47 M46 9 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 191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 121 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.
What tenants pay around M46 9
The local authority for M46 9 is Wigan, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £741 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £538 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,137 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £225,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
What kind of market M46 9 is
This is a thin market: 47 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. Within M46, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: M46 9 (Atherton)
How much did a house sell for in M46 9 (Atherton)?
Are property prices falling in M46 9 (Atherton)?
Is M46 9 (Atherton) a good place to buy a house?
Are M46 9 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 47% over five years in cash and up 16% 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 M46 today
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Rutland Avenue, Atherton, Manchester
- Blakemore Park, Atherton, Manchester,...
- St Richards Close, Atherton, Manchester, Lancashire
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in M
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the M area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Winners and losers across the M area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in M46
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are M46's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M46 0 | £177,200 | 62 |
Zoom out to the full M46 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M46 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in M46 9: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M46 9'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim M46 9.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M46 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual M46 9 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.