Nell Lane, Manchester house prices are built from 327 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 8 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £200,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +12.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.8%.
Median price paid
£200,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+12.1%
Change in real terms
-18.8%
Median per m²
£2,395
HM Land Registry327 sales72 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Nell Lane, Manchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Nell Lane, Manchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2025. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 9 | £192,500 | £350,678 |
| 2010s | 10 | £232,000 | £327,120 |
| 2020s | 6 | £271,500 | £277,402 |
The highest yearly median on record for Nell Lane, Manchester is £405,000 in 2021; the lowest is £85,000 in 2001. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £85,000 to £260,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £166,690, so the real change over the whole record is +59.4% — about +1.96% 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: +12.1% in cash against -18.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 Fremont, 117 | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 12 | 12 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £560,000 | £560,000 |
| Flat 11 115 | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| Flat 6 115 | 12 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £114,946 |
| 116 | 11 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 24 | 1 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £577,283 |
| 46 Collinswood, 117 | 1 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 106 | 17 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| Flat 16 115 | 4 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £87,870 |
| 126 | 23 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 55 Oakridge, 117 | 12 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £368,000 | £376,000 |
| Flat 8 115 | 28 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 16 Maplewood, 117 | 28 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 62 | 27 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 110 | 11 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 42 Collinswood, 117 | 28 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 111 | 27 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 124 | 7 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £215,500 | £220,185 |
| 38 Fremont, 117 | 25 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 98 | 16 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 22 Jefferson, 117 | 16 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £287,500 | £302,519 |
| 20 Jefferson, 117 | 6 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 80 | 26 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 13 | 10 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| 125a | 25 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £478,000 | £502,970 |
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 Nell Lane, Manchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 FREMONT, 117 Nell Lane | £203,000 (2004) | £225,000 (2026) | +0.5% | -2.3% |
| 12 Nell Lane | £99,950 (1997) | £560,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 116 Nell Lane | £116,495 (2002) | £395,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.6% |
| 24 Nell Lane | £82,000 (1998) | £565,000 (2025) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 46 COLLINSWOOD, 117 Nell Lane | £320,000 (2005) | £350,000 (2025) | +0.4% | -2.4% |
| 106 Nell Lane | £85,000 (2001) | £235,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| FLAT 16 115 Nell Lane | £70,000 (2020) | £86,000 (2025) | +4.2% | -0.6% |
| 126 Nell Lane | £86,000 (2001) | £225,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 55 OAKRIDGE, 117 Nell Lane | £289,800 (2005) | £368,000 (2025) | +1.2% | -1.7% |
| 16 MAPLEWOOD, 117 Nell Lane | £240,000 (2004) | £290,000 (2025) | +0.9% | -1.9% |
| 62 Nell Lane | £126,995 (2002) | £360,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 110 Nell Lane | £86,000 (2001) | £200,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Nell Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 194 | 59.3% | £196,000 | £22,000 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 72 | 22.0% | £235,000 | £10,000 – £560,000 |
| Semi-detached | 55 | 16.8% | £186,500 | £46,000 – £565,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 1.8% | £186,000 | £121,995 – £295,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Nell Lane, Manchester
212 of the sales on record are leasehold and 115 freehold — 64.8% 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 £204,500 and the median freehold sale £195,000 — a gap of -4.6%. 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 | 212 | 64.8% | £204,500 |
| Freehold | 115 | 35.2% | £195,000 |
| New build | 88 | 26.9% | £188,225 |
| Existing home | 239 | 73.1% | £201,350 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.5%. 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 8 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 Nell Lane, Manchester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Manchester, 53.9% of 340,986 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 784 | 0.2% |
| B | 44,066 | 12.9% |
| C | 138,798 | 40.7% |
| D | 111,464 | 32.7% |
| E | 36,786 | 10.8% |
| F | 6,996 | 2.1% |
| G | 2,092 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Manchester at £1,358 a month as of Jun 2026 — £993 for a one-bedroom home and £1,417 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £200,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.15% 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 M21 in Jun 2026. 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 Nell Lane, Manchester
The 2021 census counted 551,938 residents in Manchester across 214,730 households. 38.0% of those households own their home and 61.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a M21 postcode: 7 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chorlton High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,532 |
| CHS South | Secondary | Free schools | 1,177 |
| Loreto High School Chorlton | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 742 |
| Chorlton Park Primary | Primary | Academy converter | 683 |
| Oswald Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 656 |
| Brookburn Community School | Primary | Academy converter | 427 |
| Barlow Hall Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 231 |
| Chorlton CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 227 |
| St Ambrose RC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 162 |
| St John's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| St Werburgh's Road (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 0.5 km |
| St Werburgh's Road (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.5 km |
| Chorlton (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.5 km |
| Chorlton (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.5 km |
Section 09
How Nell Lane, Manchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Nell Lane, Manchester sits above that national figure — +27.0%.
Within Manchester the street ranks 1113 of 8967 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,000 (+69.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,395 per square metre, across 72 of the 327 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 £10,000 to £565,000. 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.
Nell Lane, Manchester sits in Manchester, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Manchester at 6.1 times median local earnings of £40,479 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
- Wilbraham Road£128,000 median
- Edge Lane£87,000 median
- Mauldeth Road West£138,975 median
- Manley Road£135,000 median
- New Barns Avenue£180,000 median
- Darley Avenue£220,000 median
- Brantingham Road£205,000 median
- Oswald Road£198,000 median
- York Road£115,250 median
- Newport Road£189,950 median
- Chelsfield Grove£160,000 median
- Buckingham Road£124,375 median
- Whitelow Road£165,000 median
- Ellesmere Road£156,000 median
- Ivygreen Road£170,000 median
- Hackness Road£103,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 62 Nell Lane6 sales
- 111 Nell Lane6 sales
- 130 Nell Lane6 sales
- 116 Nell Lane5 sales
- 24 Nell Lane5 sales
- 106 Nell Lane5 sales
- 98 Nell Lane5 sales
- 22, JEFFERSON, 117 Nell Lane5 sales
- 136 Nell Lane5 sales
- 4, LEXINGTON, 117 Nell Lane5 sales
- 60A Nell Lane5 sales
- 12 Nell Lane4 sales
- 126 Nell Lane4 sales
- 20, JEFFERSON, 117 Nell Lane4 sales
- 125 Nell Lane4 sales
- 86 Nell Lane4 sales
- 128 Nell Lane4 sales
- 64 Nell Lane4 sales
- 72 Nell Lane4 sales
- 66 Nell Lane4 sales
- 112 Nell Lane4 sales
- 36 Nell Lane4 sales
- 16, MAPLEWOOD, 117 Nell Lane3 sales
- 110 Nell Lane3 sales
Back to Manchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Nell Lane, Manchester?
The median price paid in Nell Lane, Manchester across every sale on the register is £200,000. 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 Nell Lane, Manchester?
327 sales are on record for Nell Lane, Manchester, the most recent completing on 8 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Nell Lane, Manchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +12.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Nell Lane, Manchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £405,000, set in 2021. 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 Nell Lane, Manchester?
£2,395 per square metre, from the 72 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 8 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, “Nell Lane, 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.