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Salford Quays market report M50 3, Salford
The standing M50 3 (Salford Quays) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,586 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in M50 3 (Salford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in M50 3 (Salford) sold for £228,000 in 2026, the median of 24 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £215,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,586 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
M50 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside M50 (Salford). 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 M50 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.
Today's M50 3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for M50 3 is £228,000, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £215,800, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
Price per square metre in M50 3
A square metre of M50 3 home has cost about £3,750 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, M50 3 sits 20% below the national market.
A typical M50 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £228,000 | £228,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 86 |
| 2024 | £217,500 | £231,247 | 113 |
| 2023 | £239,200 | £262,822 | 90 |
| 2022 | £243,000 | £284,945 | 89 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 69 |
| 2020 | £209,500 | £271,831 | 53 |
| 2019 | £200,500 | £262,808 | 64 |
| 2018 | £187,500 | £249,941 | 195 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 363 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 193 |
| 2015 | £127,500 | £180,158 | 184 |
| 2014 | £136,500 | £193,649 | 110 |
| 2013 | £163,500 | £235,260 | 66 |
| 2012 | £161,500 | £237,708 | 66 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 72 |
| 2010 | £178,000 | £279,150 | 54 |
| 2009 | £111,500 | £179,237 | 97 |
| 2008 | £161,700 | £265,060 | 170 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 193 |
| 2006 | £207,000 | £359,326 | 215 |
| 2005 | £220,200 | £391,867 | 170 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 141 |
| 2003 | £164,200 | £302,496 | 164 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 136 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 70 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 66 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 114 |
| 1998 | £71,800 | £144,933 | 48 |
| 1997 | £66,400 | £136,173 | 44 |
| 1996 | £61,000 | £128,646 | 31 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 36 |
In cash terms the typical M50 3 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £228,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 59%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 42% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M50 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 2010 (+59.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−31.0%). 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) | −3.0% | −5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.5% | −2.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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, 24 sales completed in M50 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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.
What homes rent for around M50 3
M50 3 falls under Salford, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £228,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,162 a month (£13,944 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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.
Reading the M50 3 market
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes M50 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the M50 district median, M50 3 sits 21% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about M50 3 (Salford Quays)
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reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £228,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Where do M50 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in M50 today
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in M
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%) | — |
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 M50
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are M50's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M50 1 | £107,500 | 4 |
| M50 2 | £164,800 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full M50 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M50 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in M50 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in M50 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the M50 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded M50 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 M50 3.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about M50 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M50 3 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.