🇬🇧 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 20h ago
Latest data: 2026-02-01
HM Land Registry NW England · BoE · ONS ASHE
Manchester sits in Expensive Stagnation — unaffordable and stalled. Affordability scores 3/100 and momentum 10/100.
City gauges
Affordability
3
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
- Median price (GBP)
- £251,461City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
- Median household income (GBP)
- £36,000Most recent published metro-level median household income.
- Mortgage payment burden
- 39.1%30-year amortized payment at current rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
10
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
- Year-over-year price change
- +3.9%Latest available city-level YoY HPI delta.
- Months of supply
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
- Days on market
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
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) | -6.72% |
| Headline mortgage rate | 5.75% |
| CPI year-over-year | 3.45% |
| Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs) | -21.2% 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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