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Ordsall market report M5 3, Salford
The standing M5 3 (Ordsall) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,108 HM Land Registry entries for M5 3 (Salford), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical M5 3 (Salford) home changed hands for £175,000 in 2026 (median of 31 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £186,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,850 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,108 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like M5 3 is a single group of streets within M5 (Salford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where M5 3 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 M5 3 sells for
Take the 31 registered 2026 sales in M5 3 and the middle price, the median, is £175,000. The mean lands at £186,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in M5 3
By floor space, homes in M5 3 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving M5 3 39% below the national figure.
A typical M5 3 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £182,000 | £186,352 | 69 |
| 2024 | £183,000 | £194,567 | 65 |
| 2023 | £179,000 | £196,677 | 84 |
| 2022 | £176,000 | £206,380 | 67 |
| 2021 | £167,000 | £211,444 | 245 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 77 |
| 2019 | £167,700 | £219,815 | 148 |
| 2018 | £157,700 | £210,217 | 210 |
| 2017 | £154,500 | £210,722 | 114 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 264 |
| 2015 | £117,500 | £166,028 | 125 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 117 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 37 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 49 |
| 2011 | £112,500 | £169,832 | 115 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 64 |
| 2009 | £112,000 | £180,041 | 115 |
| 2008 | £139,500 | £228,670 | 163 |
| 2007 | £145,300 | £246,469 | 222 |
| 2006 | £111,000 | £192,682 | 350 |
| 2005 | £112,700 | £200,561 | 105 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 32 |
| 2003 | £40,000 | £73,690 | 42 |
| 2002 | £34,000 | £63,971 | 36 |
| 2001 | £20,000 | £38,449 | 21 |
| 2000 | £22,000 | £43,175 | 13 |
| 1999 | £14,000 | £27,901 | 10 |
| 1998 | £25,000 | £50,464 | 12 |
| 1997 | £41,600 | £85,313 | 31 |
| 1996 | £36,700 | £77,399 | 48 |
| 1995 | £36,400 | £79,128 | 27 |
In cash terms the typical M5 3 home went from £36,400 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 121%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M5 3 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 (+75.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−44.0%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 31 sales completed in M5 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 103 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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 M5 3
The local authority for M5 3 is Salford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,162 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £883 a month here against £1,761 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Salford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, which against the £175,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 8.0%. 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.
Reading the M5 3 market
This is a thin market: 31 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. Against the M5 district median, M5 3 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about M5 3 (Ordsall)
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What happens to M5 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
M5's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 65 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M5 district, not just M5 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 50% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Steele House, Woden Street, Salford, ...
- Everard Street, Salford, Lancashire, M5
- The Mill, South Hall Street, Salford,...
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 M5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: M prices by size
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%) | — |
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in M5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are M5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M5 4 | £248,500 | 44 |
| M5 5 | £218,300 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full M5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in M5 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in M5 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the M5 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded M5 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim M5 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M5 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual M5 3 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.
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.