North West · house prices & affordability
What it costs to buy in Manchester
The average Manchester home costs £247,344. Here is the deposit, the monthly mortgage at today's Bank of England quoted rate, and the household income a lender would want to see, all from official data, none of it a sales pitch.
Data updated 2026-04
- £247,344
- Manchester metro avg (April 2026)
- +7.2%
- North West region YoY
- £1,270/mo
- mortgage at 4.76%, 10% deposit
- £49,000
- income a lender would want (4.5×)
According to the Bank of England and HM Land Registry, whose House Price Index draws on more than 1,000,000 registered property transactions a year, the city average price and region trend on this page use the April 2026 House Price Index release and the June 2026 Bank of England quoted-rate snapshot under the Open Government Licence. Our methodology states which geography each figure describes.
Geography used: the headline average price is the Manchester metro figure from the metros table; the year-on-year change and trend chart are the broader North West region House Price Index series (not a place-level YoY). Deposit, loan, and payment maths are derived from the metro price plus the Bank of England quoted rate for the matching LTV band.
The verdict
On Manchester's £247,344 average price, a 10% deposit brings the loan to £222,610, and at today's 4.76% two-year fix that works out to about £1,270 a month - lenders would generally look for a household income close to £49,000.
- £24,734
- 10% deposit needed
- £222,610
- loan at 90% LTV
- £1,270/mo
- over 25 years at 4.76%
- £1,402/mo
- stress-tested at 5.76%
Price: HM Land Registry (April 2026). Rate: Bank of England quoted 90% LTV two-year fix (June 2026).
House prices in the North West
Where Manchester sits among all 16 metros
Median house-price inventory across every tracked metro. Manchester is marked; price level is not a quality ranking.
Manchester vs all metros by median house price
Where this metro's median price sits among every tracked UK metro
247,344 8th of 16 higher than 8 of 16 metros
Metros, banded by median house price
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more metros. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source HM Land Registry / metro price table · 2026-04
How North West house prices changed recently
| Month | Avg price | MoM | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | £218,593 | +1.2% | +4.9% |
| December 2025 | £216,134 | -1.1% | +3.9% |
| January 2026 | £213,891 | -1.0% | +2.9% |
| February 2026 | £216,416 | +1.2% | +3.5% |
| March 2026 | £214,928 | -0.7% | -0.7% |
| April 2026 | £216,138 | +0.6% | +7.2% |
The North West region (+7.2% YoY) is outpacing the UK national average (+3.8%) by 3.4 percentage points in the April 2026 release.
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index. MoM = month-on-month change. YoY = year-on-year change. Figures are for the North West region, not Manchester alone.
BoE quote rate sheet
The mortgage maths for Manchester MANCHE · Manchester 90% LTV · 2yr
Manchester · £1,270/mo at 4.76% · vs Leeds
- FTB Manchester ask
- FTB 10% cash in
- FTB 90-band fix
- FTB near Leeds
- FTB under Leeds
- FTB 25y · stress
Figures use the published Manchester average and the Bank of England's quoted rate: typical-buyer maths, not a personal quote. Read with Manchester → · Model your own →
Manchester in the price neighbourhood
Median house price (£k) among this metro and nearest nationwide price peers
- Cardiff
Cardiff
271 £k
- Manchester
Manchester
247 £k
- Leeds
Leeds
247 £k
- Birmingham
Birmingham
236 £k
- Sheffield
Sheffield
222 £k
What this shows Manchester averages £247,344 (rank 9 of 16). Bars are £ thousands.
Where Manchester sits in the UK metro comparison
Manchester sits near the middle of the portal's 16-metro comparison set: 8 entries cost less and 7 cost more on average. On the price ladder Leeds sits immediately below at £246,882 and Cardiff sits immediately above at £271,166.
Closest price-to-income multiple elsewhere: Leeds at 6.9×, against Manchester's 6.9×.
Manchester's average price is 6.9 times the recorded median household income of £36,000. That places it rank 8 of 16 in this dataset when lower price-to-income multiples are treated as more affordable; it is a comparison signal, not a lending decision.
Compare Manchester across the full metro set
Rows are ordered by a Manchester-keyed shuffle of the full metro set so neighbouring pages do not share the same comparison order. Income multiples add a second disclosed lens from the portal's recorded metro data.
- Cardiff is price-rank 10 of 16, with an average £23,822 higher, recorded median household income of £34,000, and a 8.0× price-to-income multiple.
- Birmingham is price-rank 7 of 16, with an average £11,662 lower, recorded median household income of £34,000, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Liverpool is price-rank 2 of 16, with an average £63,729 lower, recorded median household income of £32,000, and a 5.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Sheffield is price-rank 6 of 16, with an average £25,264 lower, recorded median household income of £33,000, and a 6.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Oxford is price-rank 15 of 16, with an average £228,137 higher, recorded median household income of £42,000, and a 11.3× price-to-income multiple.
- Newcastle is price-rank 5 of 16, with an average £38,273 lower, recorded median household income of £32,000, and a 6.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Belfast is price-rank 1 of 16, with an average £66,311 lower, recorded median household income of £30,000, and a 6.0× price-to-income multiple.
- Brighton is price-rank 13 of 16, with an average £158,793 higher, recorded median household income of £40,000, and a 10.2× price-to-income multiple.
- Glasgow is price-rank 3 of 16, with an average £60,491 lower, recorded median household income of £33,000, and a 5.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Bristol is price-rank 12 of 16, with an average £106,318 higher, recorded median household income of £39,000, and a 9.1× price-to-income multiple.
- Nottingham is price-rank 4 of 16, with an average £54,801 lower, recorded median household income of £33,000, and a 5.8× price-to-income multiple.
- Cambridge is price-rank 14 of 16, with an average £214,801 higher, recorded median household income of £44,000, and a 10.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Leeds is price-rank 8 of 16, with an average £462 lower, recorded median household income of £36,000, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Edinburgh is price-rank 11 of 16, with an average £47,860 higher, recorded median household income of £40,000, and a 7.4× price-to-income multiple.
- London is price-rank 16 of 16, with an average £305,311 higher, recorded median household income of £53,000, and a 10.4× price-to-income multiple.
Income-context sample for Manchester
A Manchester-keyed shuffle of every metro with recorded income. Income is a context signal from the metro dataset, not an affordability assessment for an individual household.
- Liverpool has £4,000 lower, an average price of £183,615, and a 5.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Birmingham has £2,000 lower, an average price of £235,682, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Bristol has £3,000 higher, an average price of £353,662, and a 9.1× price-to-income multiple.
- London has £17,000 higher, an average price of £552,655, and a 10.4× price-to-income multiple.
- Sheffield has £3,000 lower, an average price of £222,080, and a 6.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Brighton has £4,000 higher, an average price of £406,137, and a 10.2× price-to-income multiple.
- Nottingham has £3,000 lower, an average price of £192,543, and a 5.8× price-to-income multiple.
- Belfast has £6,000 lower, an average price of £181,033, and a 6.0× price-to-income multiple.
- Newcastle has £4,000 lower, an average price of £209,071, and a 6.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Leeds has the same recorded median income, an average price of £246,882, and a 6.9× price-to-income multiple.
- Cambridge has £8,000 higher, an average price of £462,145, and a 10.5× price-to-income multiple.
- Glasgow has £3,000 lower, an average price of £186,853, and a 5.7× price-to-income multiple.
- Cardiff has £2,000 lower, an average price of £271,166, and a 8.0× price-to-income multiple.
- Edinburgh has £4,000 higher, an average price of £295,204, and a 7.4× price-to-income multiple.
- Oxford has £6,000 higher, an average price of £475,481, and a 11.3× price-to-income multiple.
Compare beyond geography
Nationwide peers by price & affordability multiple
Two PlainMortgage-derived comparison paths for Manchester: nearest median house price and nearest price-to-income multiple across all 16 tracked UK metros. Regional trend charts above stay geographic; these neighbourhoods vary by metric.
Similar median house price
Nearest metros by HM Land Registry average price. This record: £247,344.
Similar price-to-income multiple
Nearest metros by average price ÷ recorded median household income. This record: 6.9×.
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index 2026-04
Frequently asked questions
- What is the average house price in Manchester?
The HM Land Registry average for Manchester is £247,344 in the April 2026 release. It is an average transaction price for the local-authority area, not a valuation of a particular property.
- Where does Manchester sit on the portal's metro price ladder?
Rank 9 of 16. On the price ladder Leeds sits immediately below at £246,882 and Cardiff sits immediately above at £271,166.
- How does Manchester compare with similarly affordable metros?
Manchester's average price is 6.9 times its recorded median household income. The closest comparison in this portal's metro dataset is Leeds at 6.9 times income; compare the price, local income and deposit assumptions rather than treating either figure as a personal lending decision.
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