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Salford Quays market report M50, Salford
The M50 (Salford Quays) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,067 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M50 (Salford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in M50 (Salford) sold for £189,000 in 2026, the median of 48 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £187,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,067 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
M50 is the postcode district covering Salford Quays, MediaCityUK in Salford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where M50 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 prices, from the sold record
Across 48 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) M50 home went for £189,000. The mean is £187,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in M50
A square metre of M50 home has cost about £3,550 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, M50 runs 34% below it.
M50's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £189,000 | £189,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £203,800 | £208,673 | 165 |
| 2024 | £201,800 | £214,555 | 200 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 360 |
| 2022 | £202,900 | £237,923 | 171 |
| 2021 | £207,000 | £262,089 | 111 |
| 2020 | £206,500 | £267,938 | 86 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 501 |
| 2018 | £172,500 | £229,946 | 272 |
| 2017 | £152,400 | £207,858 | 663 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 313 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 300 |
| 2014 | £112,000 | £158,892 | 268 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 165 |
| 2012 | £112,500 | £165,586 | 124 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 176 |
| 2010 | £157,000 | £246,216 | 183 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 205 |
| 2008 | £149,100 | £244,406 | 237 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 245 |
| 2006 | £207,000 | £359,326 | 219 |
| 2005 | £217,000 | £386,173 | 176 |
| 2004 | £164,500 | £298,764 | 150 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 173 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 136 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 72 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 69 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 115 |
| 1998 | £71,000 | £143,319 | 49 |
| 1997 | £65,800 | £134,943 | 45 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 33 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 37 |
In cash terms the typical M50 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £189,000 in 2026, roughly 2.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 34%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 51% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the M50 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 2016 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.5%). 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) | −7.3% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.5% | −3.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 96% of the typed total. In 2000, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £145,500 against £85,000 for a flat, 1.7 times the price.
Median by property type, M50
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £145,500 (2000) | – | 16 |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 (2006) | – | 17 |
| Terraced | £350,000 (2021) | – | 190 |
| Flats | £185,000 | 47 | 5,738 |
The turnover behind the prices
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
M50 recorded 105 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 189 sales a year over the last five years against 155 before the financial crisis. 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 shape of the M50 market
This is a thin market: 105 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. In its area's price order M50 comes 39 of 42, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around M50
M50 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 £189,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,162 a month (£13,944 a year) works out at a 7.4% 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.
M50 (Salford Quays): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in M50 (Salford Quays)?
Is M50 (Salford Quays) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M50 (Salford Quays)?
The questions people bring to M50 (Salford Quays)
These are the recorded searches for the wider M report family, answered with this page's own figures.
One real search that lands here: average house price increase manchester since 2020
. The record's answer: the M50 (Salford Quays) median was £206,500 in 2020 and £189,000 in 2026, down 8% in cash and down 29% in today's money.
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 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% 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.
What you could buy in M50 now
Everything above is what homes in M50 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 23 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the M50 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Broadway, Salford Quays, Manchester
- Millenium Tower, Salford Quays, M50, Salford Quays
- Michigan Point Tower, 11 Michigan Ave...
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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in M: the cost
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
M50 ranks 36 of 42 in the M area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
M area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside M50, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M50 1 | £107,500 | 4 |
| M50 2 | £164,800 | 20 |
| M50 3 | £228,000 | 24 |
How M50 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the M area, and M50 itself, which ranks 39 of 42 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| M21 | £410,000 | +22% |
| M33 | £410,000 | +27% |
| M20 | £360,000 | +17% |
| M41 | £346,400 | +20% |
| M16 | £314,500 | +37% |
| M7 | £296,000 | +35% |
| M25 | £293,500 | +13% |
| M32 | £290,000 | +21% |
| M28 | £285,000 | +12% |
| M19 | £276,000 | +23% |
| M45 | £275,000 | +24% |
| M23 | £266,000 | +33% |
| M2 | £257,800 | -34% |
| M13 | £250,000 | +2% |
| M14 | £245,000 | +29% |
| M27 | £243,500 | +22% |
| M22 | £242,000 | +26% |
| M35 | £238,000 | +29% |
| M44 | £235,000 | +31% |
| M6 | £232,500 | +16% |
| M29 | £232,500 | +16% |
| M30 | £230,000 | +17% |
| M40 | £230,000 | +38% |
| M50 (this report) | £189,000 | -9% |
Selling a home in M50? 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 M50'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.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M50 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual M50 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.
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.