🇬🇧 UK · North West England
Manchester.
Where the housing market sits.
Northern Powerhouse hub — strongest rental yield of any major UK city, sustained price growth, and the heart of UK build-to-rent investment.
Updated 5m ago
Latest data: 2026-04-01
HM Land Registry NW England · BoE · ONS ASHE
City gauges
Affordability
7
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
- Median price (GBP)
- £247,344City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
- Median household income (GBP)
- £36,000Most recent published metro-level median household income.
- Mortgage payment burden
- 38.5%30-year amortized payment at current UK rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
7
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
- Year-over-year price change
- +1.3%Latest available city-level YoY HPI delta.
- Months of supply
- —Active listings divided by trailing-three-month sales pace.
- Days on market
- —Median days from listing to under contract.
Regime · What the gauges say together
Expensive stagnation
Unaffordable and prices not rising in real terms.
Unaffordable, but no longer rising.
Context
| Real price growth (3-mo annualized) | -8.21% |
| Headline mortgage rate | 5.75% |
| CPI year-over-year | 2.97% |
| Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs) | -12.8% avg vs 200-day MA · breadth 0/4 |
Data sources for Manchester
- ONS HPI North West
- Rightmove regional data
- Manchester City Council housing data
Full source documentation on /data-sources.
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