Owen Street, Manchester house prices are built from 653 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2020 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £378,240. Across the 5 years from 2020 to 2025 the median moved +7.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.2%.
Median price paid
£378,240
Change in cash, 2020–2025
+7.5%
Change in real terms
-15.2%
Median per m²
£4,465
HM Land Registry653 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How Owen Street, Manchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Owen Street, Manchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2020 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 6 | £378,000 | £386,217 |
The highest yearly median on record for Owen Street, Manchester is £480,000 in 2023; the lowest is £351,700 in 2020. Across the full 6-year record the cash median has moved from £351,700 to £378,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £455,369, so the real change over the whole record is -15.2% — about -3.24% 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: +7.5% in cash against -15.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat B4801 9 | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £950,000 | £950,000 |
| Flat A5902 9 | 2 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £545,000 | £545,000 |
| Flat A2807 9 | 10 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £368,000 | £368,000 |
| Flat B1608 9 | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £415,000 | £415,000 |
| Flat A2703 9 | 12 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £357,000 | £364,761 |
| Flat A2006 9 | 26 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £328,000 | £335,130 |
| Flat B1003 9 | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| Flat B3604 9 | 26 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| Flat A2101 9 | 19 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| Flat B3405 9 | 2 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| Flat B2407 9 | 18 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 17 | 7 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £172,000 | £175,739 |
| Flat A205 9 | 18 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £283,000 | £289,152 |
| Flat B1210 9 | 7 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| Flat A3006 9 | 7 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £372,000 | £380,087 |
| Flat A1104 9 | 7 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £268,000 | £273,826 |
| Flat B4505 9 | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| Flat A3403 9 | 12 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| Flat A1504 9 | 5 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £328,500 | £335,641 |
| Flat B1008 9 | 16 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| Flat A3405 9 | 2 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £490,000 | £500,652 |
| Flat A4908 9 | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £485,000 | £495,543 |
| Flat A4802 9 | 28 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £555,000 | £567,065 |
| Flat A2308 9 | 27 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £480,000 | £490,435 |
| Flat B4003 9 | 19 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £378,000 | £386,217 |
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 Owen Street, Manchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT B4801 9 Owen Street | £870,000 (2022) | £950,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -1.5% |
| FLAT A5902 9 Owen Street | £445,500 (2020) | £545,000 (2026) | +3.4% | -0.9% |
| FLAT A2807 9 Owen Street | £362,000 (2020) | £368,000 (2026) | +0.3% | -4.0% |
| FLAT B1608 9 Owen Street | £402,240 (2021) | £415,000 (2026) | +0.6% | -4.0% |
| FLAT B3604 9 Owen Street | £296,950 (2021) | £265,000 (2025) | -2.8% | -7.8% |
| 17 Owen Street | £24,000 (1996) | £172,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| FLAT A205 9 Owen Street | £286,650 (2020) | £283,000 (2025) | -0.3% | -4.9% |
| FLAT B1210 9 Owen Street | £393,300 (2021) | £435,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -2.8% |
| FLAT A3006 9 Owen Street | £329,550 (2020) | £372,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -2.3% |
| FLAT A1104 9 Owen Street | £280,000 (2020) | £268,000 (2025) | -0.9% | -5.5% |
| FLAT A1504 9 Owen Street | £246,380 (2020) | £328,500 (2025) | +5.9% | +1.0% |
| FLAT B1008 9 Owen Street | £255,000 (2021) | £275,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Owen Street, 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 | 642 | 98.3% | £380,000 | £199,950 – £2,450,000 |
| Terraced | 11 | 1.7% | £60,000 | £13,500 – £172,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Owen Street, Manchester
642 of the sales on record are leasehold and 11 freehold — 98.3% 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 £380,000 and the median freehold sale £60,000 — a gap of -84.2%. 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 | 642 | 98.3% | £380,000 |
| Freehold | 11 | 1.7% | £60,000 |
| New build | 545 | 83.5% | £373,440 |
| Existing home | 108 | 16.5% | £415,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.0%. 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 379 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 09
How Owen Street, Manchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Owen Street, Manchester sits above that national figure — +140.2%.
Within Manchester the street ranks 135 of 8967 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,000 (+220.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,465 per square metre, across 1 of the 653 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 £13,500 to £2,450,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- City Road East£167,100 median
- Ellesmere Street£135,000 median
- Kelso Place£173,453 median
- Silvercroft Street£342,913 median
- Worsley Street£170,000 median
- Slate Wharf£130,000 median
- Hulme Hall Road£164,500 median
- Arundel Street£179,000 median
- Boundary Lane£221,100 median
- Little Peter Street£154,000 median
- Chorlton Road£103,950 median
- Jordan Street£186,291 median
- Spinners Way£245,000 median
- Hulme High Street£112,500 median
- Mallow Street£75,750 median
- Boston Street£130,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 17 Owen Street5 sales
- FLAT B1008, 9 Owen Street3 sales
- FLAT A5705, 9 Owen Street3 sales
- FLAT B4801, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A5902, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A2807, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT B1608, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT B3604, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A205, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A1104, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT B1210, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A3006, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A1504, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A3405, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A4802, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A2308, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT B4003, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT B805, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A1201, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A4504, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A1401, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT B1301, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT B1110, 9 Owen Street2 sales
- FLAT A3004, 9 Owen Street2 sales
Back to Manchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Owen Street, Manchester?
The median price paid in Owen Street, Manchester across every sale on the register is £378,240. 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 Owen Street, Manchester?
653 sales are on record for Owen Street, Manchester, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Owen Street, Manchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +7.5% between 2020 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Owen Street, Manchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £480,000, set in 2023. 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 Owen Street, Manchester?
£4,465 per square metre, from the 1 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 1 May 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, “Owen Street, 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.