Potato Wharf, Manchester house prices

Potato Wharf, Manchester house prices are built from 494 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 27 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £172,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +34.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.3%.

HM Land Registry494 sales131 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Feb 2026

The chart tracks the median Potato Wharf, 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Potato Wharf, Manchester is £316,000 in 2023; the lowest is £110,500 in 2009. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £114,000 to £234,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £223,561, so the real change over the whole record is +6.9% — about +0.28% 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: +34.9% in cash against -2.3% 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.

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.

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 Potato Wharf, Manchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Potato Wharf, Manchester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

494 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -9.8%. 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 119 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.

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.

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 £172,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.45% 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.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of M3, 6 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 4 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 27.8 times quieter.

Against the 551,938 residents the 2021 census counted in Manchester, that is 0.01 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

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.

3 state and independent schools have a M3 postcode: 3 primary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Potato Wharf, Manchester sits above that national figure — +9.5%.

Within Manchester the street ranks 1715 of 8967 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,000 (+46.2%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,982 per square metre, across 131 of the 494 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 £57,500 to £375,000. 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.

Potato Wharf, 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.

Streets nearby

• Chapel Street£159,950 median
• Blackfriars Road£147,500 median
• Deansgate£238,000 median
• Leftbank£240,000 median
• Adelphi Street£134,995 median
• Bury Street£195,149 median
• Mirabel Street£159,750 median
• Greengate£108,000 median
• Clowes Street£229,950 median
• Watson Street£209,000 median
• Water Street£160,000 median
• Sillavan Way£190,000 median
• New Kings Head Yard£248,728 median
• New Bailey Street£272,855 median
• Regent Road£241,850 median
• St Marys Parsonage£210,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 8 Potato Wharf4 sales
• 18 Potato Wharf4 sales
• 32 Potato Wharf4 sales
• 4 Potato Wharf4 sales
• 26 Potato Wharf4 sales
• FLAT 407, WHITWORTH, 39 Potato Wharf3 sales
• FLAT 413, WHITWORTH, 39 Potato Wharf3 sales
• 36 Potato Wharf3 sales
• 24 Potato Wharf3 sales
• APARTMENT 713, 37 Potato Wharf3 sales
• 6 Potato Wharf3 sales
• FLAT 305, WHITWORTH, 39 Potato Wharf3 sales
• APARTMENT 504, 37 Potato Wharf3 sales
• FLAT 309, WILSON BUILDING, 43 Potato Wharf2 sales
• FLAT 102, WILSON BUILDING, 43 Potato Wharf2 sales
• APARTMENT 306, 37 Potato Wharf2 sales
• APARTMENT 206, 37 Potato Wharf2 sales
• FLAT 201, WHITWORTH, 39 Potato Wharf2 sales
• FLAT 106, WILSON BUILDING, 43 Potato Wharf2 sales
• APARTMENT 202, 37 Potato Wharf2 sales
• APARTMENT 707, 37 Potato Wharf2 sales
• FLAT 701, WHITWORTH, 39 Potato Wharf2 sales
• FLAT 110, GOODWIN BUILDING Potato Wharf2 sales
• FLAT 613, GOODWIN BUILDING, 41 Potato Wharf2 sales

Back to Manchester house prices.

What is the average house price in Potato Wharf, Manchester?

The median price paid in Potato Wharf, Manchester across every sale on the register is £172,500. 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 Potato Wharf, Manchester?

494 sales are on record for Potato Wharf, Manchester, the most recent completing on 27 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Potato Wharf, Manchester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +34.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Potato Wharf, Manchester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £316,000, 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 Potato Wharf, Manchester?

£2,982 per square metre, from the 131 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 27 Feb 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, “Potato Wharf, 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.