Barton Road, Manchester house prices are built from 997 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £108,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +49.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.0%.
Median price paid
£108,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+49.4%
Change in real terms
+7.0%
Median per m²
£2,041
HM Land Registry997 sales53 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Barton Road, Manchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Barton Road, Manchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £45,000 | £99,921 |
| 2000s | 10 | £90,000 | £163,953 |
| 2010s | 10 | £135,125 | £190,526 |
| 2020s | 7 | £227,500 | £232,446 |
The highest yearly median on record for Barton Road, Manchester is £277,500 in 2024; the lowest is £42,500 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £46,200 to £248,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £102,586, so the real change over the whole record is +142.5% — about +2.90% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +49.4% in cash against +7.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 184 | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| Apartment 11 Elmwood | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| Apartment 49 Elmwood | 31 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 15 | 27 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| Apartment 5 418 | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 9 | 12 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £207,500 | £207,500 |
| 35 | 23 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £342,500 | £342,500 |
| 442 | 19 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| Apartment 36 Spinning Gate, 4 | 25 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £197,000 | £201,283 |
| Apartment 43 Elmwood | 17 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 489 | 3 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £298,270 | £304,754 |
| 18 | 29 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| 71 | 24 Oct 2025 | Detached | £720,000 | £735,652 |
| Apartment 37 Spinning Gate, 4 | 23 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £79,696 |
| 453 | 17 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| Apartment 20 Elmwood | 17 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| Apartment 21 Elmwood | 10 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| 155 | 19 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 528 | 14 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £311,630 |
| 111 | 21 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 281 | 6 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 498 | 28 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £309,500 | £316,228 |
| 6 Maranatha Court | 15 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £119,000 | £121,587 |
| Apartment 42 Elmwood | 11 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| 16 | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £385,000 | £393,370 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Barton Road, Manchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 184 Barton Road | £80,000 (2004) | £300,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.3% |
| APARTMENT 11 ELMWOOD Barton Road | £44,000 (2000) | £130,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| APARTMENT 49 ELMWOOD Barton Road | £120,000 (2004) | £185,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 15 Barton Road | £41,950 (1995) | £325,000 (2026) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| APARTMENT 5 418 Barton Road | £109,000 (2005) | £180,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 9 Barton Road | £100,000 (2019) | £207,500 (2026) | +11.0% | +6.8% |
| 35 Barton Road | £78,000 (1999) | £342,500 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 442 Barton Road | £78,200 (2002) | £290,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| APARTMENT 43 ELMWOOD Barton Road | £52,000 (2000) | £120,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 18 Barton Road | £58,000 (1996) | £435,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| 71 Barton Road | £184,950 (2002) | £720,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.2% |
| APARTMENT 20 ELMWOOD Barton Road | £83,000 (2008) | £125,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Barton Road, Manchester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 339 | 34.0% | £127,000 | £11,000 – £465,000 |
| Terraced | 303 | 30.4% | £117,500 | £8,000 – £435,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 285 | 28.6% | £96,000 | £13,000 – £385,000 |
| Detached | 70 | 7.0% | £163,000 | £45,000 – £725,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Barton Road, Manchester
733 of the sales on record are leasehold and 264 freehold — 73.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £102,000 and the median freehold sale £130,000 — a gap of +27.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 733 | 73.5% | £102,000 |
| Freehold | 264 | 26.5% | £130,000 |
| New build | 54 | 5.4% | £90,000 |
| Existing home | 943 | 94.6% | £112,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -19.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 75 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Barton Road, Manchester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Trafford, 40.1% of 105,442 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 123 | 0.1% |
| B | 9,091 | 8.6% |
| C | 33,046 | 31.3% |
| D | 43,409 | 41.2% |
| E | 15,820 | 15.0% |
| F | 3,184 | 3.0% |
| G | 769 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Trafford at £1,365 a month as of Jun 2026 — £940 for a one-bedroom home and £1,477 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £108,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.17% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
No street-level crime was published for M41 in Jun 2026 by Greater Manchester. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Barton Road, Manchester
The 2021 census counted 235,052 residents in Trafford across 96,269 households. 69.6% of those households own their home and 30.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a M41 postcode: 12 primary, 4 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urmston Grammar Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,137 |
| Flixton Girls School | Secondary | Academy converter | 981 |
| Wellacre Technology Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 727 |
| St Antony's Roman Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 688 |
| Davyhulme Primary School | Primary | Community school | 511 |
| Urmston Primary School | Primary | Community school | 497 |
| Flixton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 439 |
| Acre Hall Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 297 |
| Highfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 288 |
| St Michael's CofE (Aided) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 240 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chassen Road Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Urmston Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Flixton Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| The Trafford Centre (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 2.2 km |
Section 09
How Barton Road, Manchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Barton Road, Manchester sits below that national figure — -31.4%.
Within Manchester the street ranks 4827 of 8967 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £118,000 (-8.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,041 per square metre, across 53 of the 997 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £8,000 to £725,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Barton Road, Manchester sits in Trafford, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Trafford at 9.6 times median local earnings of £38,682 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Stretford Road£116,000 median
- Victoria Road£166,250 median
- Ullswater Road£112,000 median
- Flixton Road£128,000 median
- Parsonage Road£173,883 median
- Princess Road£124,000 median
- Tintern Avenue£100,000 median
- Davyhulme Road£212,000 median
- Marlborough Road£137,500 median
- Railway Road£131,500 median
- Firwood Avenue£133,000 median
- Canterbury Road£177,000 median
- Gloucester Road£110,000 median
- Derwent Road£126,000 median
- Woodsend Road£147,000 median
- Roseneath Road£182,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 18 Barton Road13 sales
- 53 Barton Road11 sales
- 51 Barton Road9 sales
- 39 Barton Road9 sales
- 31 Barton Road8 sales
- 49 Barton Road8 sales
- 71 Barton Road7 sales
- 43 Barton Road7 sales
- 85 Barton Road7 sales
- 47 Barton Road7 sales
- 92 Barton Road7 sales
- 15 Barton Road6 sales
- 16 Barton Road6 sales
- 176 Barton Road6 sales
- APARTMENT 2, ELMWOOD Barton Road6 sales
- 48 Barton Road6 sales
- 88 Barton Road6 sales
- 78 Barton Road6 sales
- 7 Barton Road6 sales
- 103 Barton Road6 sales
- 83 Barton Road6 sales
- 111 Barton Road5 sales
- 12 Barton Road5 sales
- APARTMENT 3, ELMWOOD Barton Road5 sales
Back to Manchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Barton Road, Manchester?
The median price paid in Barton Road, Manchester across every sale on the register is £108,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Barton Road, Manchester?
997 sales are on record for Barton Road, Manchester, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Barton Road, Manchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +49.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Barton Road, Manchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £277,500, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Barton Road, Manchester?
£2,041 per square metre, from the 53 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 5 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Barton Road, Manchester house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.