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Salford Quays market report M50 2, Salford
The M50 2 (Salford Quays) house price history in full, 2000 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,785 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in M50 2 (Salford) since 2000, 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: a typical M50 2 (Salford) home changed hands for £164,800 in 2026 (median of 20 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £169,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,590 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,785 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 2000, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
M50 2 is one sector of M50 (Salford): 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 M50 2 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 buyers actually paid in M50 2
20 sales were registered in M50 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £164,800. The mean works out at £169,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in M50 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of M50 2 sales average about £3,590 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving M50 2 42% below the national figure.
M50 2's median sold price, 2000 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £164,800 | £164,800 | 20 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 67 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 75 |
| 2023 | £195,100 | £214,367 | 258 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 63 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 29 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 25 |
| 2019 | £154,100 | £201,988 | 424 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 39 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 257 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 79 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 60 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 94 |
| 2013 | £140,300 | £201,878 | 36 |
| 2012 | £125,400 | £184,573 | 22 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 57 |
| 2010 | £171,600 | £269,113 | 104 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 9 |
| 2008 | £130,200 | £213,425 | 2 |
| 2007 | £148,000 | £251,049 | 47 |
| 2006 | £295,000 | £512,082 | 2 |
| 2005 | £50,000 | £88,980 | 3 |
| 2004 | £60,000 | £108,972 | 5 |
| 2003 | £52,500 | £96,718 | 5 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 1 |
| 2000 | £230,000 | £451,375 | 2 |
In cash terms the typical M50 2 home went from £230,000 in 2000 to £164,800 in 2026, a -28% rise. Adjust for inflation and the direction reverses: a real fall of about 63%, leaving a typical home cheaper in today's money than in 2000. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 68% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M50 2 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 2006 (+490.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−54.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.9% | −13.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −2.9% | −5.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in M50 2
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 20 sales completed in M50 2. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 97 sales a year over the last five years against 9 before the financial crisis. 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 homes rent for around M50 2
M50 2 falls under Salford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,162 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £883 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,761, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Salford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £164,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,162 a month (£13,944 a year) works out at a 8.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the M50 2 market
This is a thin market: 20 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the M50 district median, M50 2 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: M50 2 (Salford Quays)
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What happens to M50 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
What is for sale in M50 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 23 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M50 district, not just M50 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 M50 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. 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%) | — |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in M50
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of M50, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M50 1 | £107,500 | 4 |
| M50 3 | £228,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full M50 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M50 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in M50 2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M50 2'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 M50 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M50 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M50 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.