Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,213 sales registered with HM Land Registry in M50 (Salford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
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
Click the map to open M50 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£200,000median sold price, 2026
+8%five-year change (cash)
135sales in the last 12 months
7.0%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in M50 sells for
The 2026 median in M50 is £200,000, from 32 registered sales; the mean, £197,500, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so M50 trades 27% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical M50 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£200,000
£200,000
32
2025
£196,600
£196,600
234
2024
£199,000
£206,637
281
2023
£199,500
£214,082
469
2022
£200,000
£229,046
220
2021
£184,500
£228,145
184
2020
£144,500
£183,113
191
2019
£157,000
£200,983
668
2018
£165,000
£214,811
385
2017
£150,000
£199,807
812
2016
£140,000
£191,287
444
2015
£97,000
£133,860
369
2014
£115,000
£159,337
299
2013
£115,000
£161,609
179
2012
£112,500
£161,719
124
2011
£130,000
£191,667
176
2010
£157,000
£240,466
183
2009
£120,000
£188,396
205
2008
£149,000
£238,538
239
2007
£180,000
£298,199
245
2006
£207,000
£350,934
219
2005
£217,000
£377,154
176
2004
£164,500
£291,787
150
2003
£160,000
£287,875
173
2002
£130,000
£238,881
136
2001
£100,000
£187,755
72
2000
£88,000
£168,667
69
1999
£78,000
£151,819
115
1998
£71,000
£139,971
49
1997
£65,800
£131,791
45
1996
£60,000
£123,582
33
1995
£65,000
£138,000
37
In cash terms the typical M50 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 3.1 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 45%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 47% 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 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 (+44.3% 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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+1.7%
+1.7%
5 years (since 2021)
+1.6%
−2.6%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.6%
+0.4%
20 years (since 2006)
−0.2%
−2.8%
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
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
M50 recorded 135 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 247 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.
What homes rent for 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.
Set against the £200,000 median sold price, £1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, a gross yield of 7.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Will M50 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
M50 ranks 34 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.
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.
Inside M50, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.