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Harpurhey market report M9 7, Manchester
The standing M9 7 (Harpurhey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,375 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in M9 7 (Manchester) since 1995, 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: the middle 2026 sale in M9 7 (Manchester) came in at £260,000, out of 11 registered, up 27% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £248,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,580 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,375 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like M9 7 is a single group of streets within M9 (Manchester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where M9 7 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 M9 7 homes really sell for
Across 11 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) M9 7 home went for £260,000. The mean is £248,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
M9 7 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put M9 7 at roughly £2,580 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so M9 7 trades 9% below the country as a whole.
A typical M9 7 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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 11 |
| 2025 | £202,500 | £207,342 | 70 |
| 2024 | £222,000 | £236,032 | 58 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 49 |
| 2022 | £201,200 | £235,930 | 56 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 97 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 53 |
| 2019 | £137,000 | £179,574 | 89 |
| 2018 | £173,000 | £230,612 | 119 |
| 2017 | £161,500 | £220,270 | 128 |
| 2016 | £159,200 | £222,722 | 104 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 89 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 61 |
| 2013 | £88,000 | £126,623 | 45 |
| 2012 | £91,000 | £133,941 | 34 |
| 2011 | £88,000 | £132,846 | 40 |
| 2010 | £91,000 | £142,711 | 50 |
| 2009 | £103,000 | £165,573 | 39 |
| 2008 | £124,000 | £203,262 | 43 |
| 2007 | £107,000 | £181,502 | 200 |
| 2006 | £148,100 | £257,083 | 184 |
| 2005 | £107,500 | £191,307 | 184 |
| 2004 | £93,000 | £168,906 | 83 |
| 2003 | £87,800 | £161,749 | 95 |
| 2002 | £71,000 | £133,586 | 83 |
| 2001 | £60,500 | £116,308 | 76 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 71 |
| 1999 | £51,200 | £102,039 | 56 |
| 1998 | £34,200 | £69,035 | 26 |
| 1997 | £39,000 | £79,981 | 33 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 25 |
| 1995 | £33,500 | £72,824 | 24 |
In cash terms the typical M9 7 home went from £33,500 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 257%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the M9 7 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 1999 (+49.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2007 (−27.8%). 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) | +28.4% | +25.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 11 M9 7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 49 a year over the last five. 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 kind of market M9 7 is
This is a thin market: 11 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the M9 district median, M9 7 sits 21% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around M9 7
M9 7 falls under Manchester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,352 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £989 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,989 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Manchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,352 a month is £16,224 a year, which against the £260,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.2%. 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.
Asked and answered: M9 7 (Harpurhey)
How much did a house sell for in M9 7 (Harpurhey)?
Are property prices falling in M9 7 (Harpurhey)?
Is M9 7 (Harpurhey) a good place to buy a house?
Are M9 7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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.
On the market in M9 today
The live side of the market holds 56 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M9 district, not just M9 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Horse Chestnut Drive, Manchester, Blackley, M9, Blackley
- Glen Avenue, Blackley, Manchester, M9, Manchester
- Spindletree Avenue, Manchester, M9, Manchester
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every M9 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.
Moving up a bedroom in M: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the M area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
M area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in M9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of M9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M9 0 | £200,000 | 15 |
| M9 4 | £200,000 | 15 |
| M9 5 | £204,000 | 1 |
| M9 6 | £216,800 | 20 |
| M9 8 | £212,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full M9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in M9 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in M9 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the M9 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded M9 7 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 M9 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M9 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual M9 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.