Starling Close, Manchester house prices are built from 173 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 17 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £138,000. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +13.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -24.2%.
Median price paid
£138,000
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+13.8%
Change in real terms
-24.2%
Median per m²
£2,054
HM Land Registry173 sales62 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Starling Close, Manchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Starling Close, Manchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 to 2022. 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 | 5 | £141,450 | £257,680 |
| 2010s | 3 | £130,000 | £183,300 |
| 2020s | 1 | £165,000 | £168,587 |
The highest yearly median on record for Starling Close, Manchester is £193,623 in 2018; the lowest is £115,250 in 2003. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £115,250 to £165,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £217,832, so the real change over the whole record is -12.2% — about -0.68% 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: +13.8% in cash against -24.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 17 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £266,000 | £266,000 |
| 17 | 24 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 1 | 23 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £252,000 | £252,000 |
| 94 | 30 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 54 | 20 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 52 | 28 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £173,500 | £177,272 |
| 88 | 17 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 48 | 30 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £164,000 | £172,567 |
| 7 | 9 Apr 2024 | Detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 19 | 2 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 80 | 21 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 46 | 18 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £166,500 | £179,897 |
| 52 | 21 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 42 | 28 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 58 | 20 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 5 | 19 Jul 2022 | Detached | £335,000 | £388,127 |
| 100 | 19 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £185,374 |
| 80 | 6 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 17 | 25 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £232,500 | £269,371 |
| 18 | 14 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 102 | 29 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £139,950 | £176,819 |
| 29 | 21 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £191,000 | £241,317 |
| 7 | 12 Mar 2021 | Detached | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 20 | 26 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £207,000 | £261,532 |
| 22 | 25 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £202,000 | £261,543 |
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 Starling Close, Manchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Starling Close | £148,152 (2005) | £266,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 17 Starling Close | £144,350 (2005) | £265,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.0% |
| 1 Starling Close | £147,250 (2005) | £252,000 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 94 Starling Close | £110,000 (2004) | £170,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 54 Starling Close | £124,950 (2004) | £165,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.5% |
| 52 Starling Close | £129,950 (2004) | £173,500 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 88 Starling Close | £107,000 (2004) | £160,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 48 Starling Close | £133,950 (2004) | £164,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -1.8% |
| 7 Starling Close | £141,450 (2006) | £340,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.0% |
| 19 Starling Close | £143,950 (2005) | £245,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 80 Starling Close | £111,500 (2004) | £165,000 (2023) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 46 Starling Close | £135,950 (2004) | £166,500 (2023) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Starling Close, 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 | 75 | 43.4% | £131,000 | £105,000 – £173,500 |
| Semi-detached | 60 | 34.7% | £146,950 | £110,000 – £266,000 |
| Terraced | 26 | 15.0% | £139,950 | £102,450 – £265,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 6.9% | £264,995 | £150,000 – £389,995 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Starling Close, Manchester
169 of the sales on record are leasehold and 4 freehold — 97.7% 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 £138,000 and the median freehold sale £188,425 — a gap of +36.5%. 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 | 169 | 97.7% | £138,000 |
| Freehold | 4 | 2.3% | £188,425 |
| New build | 78 | 45.1% | £133,475 |
| Existing home | 95 | 54.9% | £144,350 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -7.5%. 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 6 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 Starling Close, Manchester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire East, 44.0% of 197,366 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,489 | 0.8% |
| B | 29,554 | 15.0% |
| C | 55,700 | 28.2% |
| D | 73,725 | 37.4% |
| E | 26,906 | 13.6% |
| F | 7,570 | 3.8% |
| G | 2,422 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire East at £982 a month as of Jun 2026 — £694 for a one-bedroom home and £1,102 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £138,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.54% 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 M22 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 Starling Close, Manchester
The 2021 census counted 398,772 residents in Cheshire East across 174,854 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a M22 postcode: 11 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Enterprise Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,145 |
| Crossacres Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 704 |
| St Anthony's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 665 |
| Benchill Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 479 |
| Ringway Primary School | Primary | Community school | 417 |
| Haveley Hey Community School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 413 |
| The Willows Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 407 |
| Ss John Fisher and Thomas More Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 370 |
| St Wilfrid's CofE Aided Primary School Northenden | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 340 |
| Northenden Community School | Primary | Academy converter | 232 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Benchill (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.3 km |
| Benchill (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.3 km |
| Benchill (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 0.3 km |
| Crossacres (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 0.3 km |
Section 09
How Starling Close, Manchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Starling Close, Manchester sits below that national figure — -12.4%.
Within Manchester the street ranks 2998 of 8967 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,000 (+16.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,054 per square metre, across 62 of the 173 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 £102,450 to £389,995. 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.
Starling Close, Manchester sits in Cheshire East, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire East at 7.6 times median local earnings of £39,459 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
- Church Road£125,500 median
- Haslington Road£84,300 median
- Sheen Gardens£126,620 median
- Petworth Close£83,500 median
- Devoke Road£95,500 median
- Greenwood Road£114,500 median
- Bronington Close£137,500 median
- Downes Way£115,000 median
- Chapel Road£125,000 median
- Royle Green Road£131,000 median
- Brett Street£79,250 median
- Longley Lane£121,365 median
- Northumberland Way£133,000 median
- Hollyhedge Road£120,000 median
- Cornishway£110,000 median
- Portway£79,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 7 Starling Close8 sales
- 18 Starling Close6 sales
- 54 Starling Close5 sales
- 25 Starling Close4 sales
- 17 Starling Close4 sales
- 1 Starling Close4 sales
- 52 Starling Close4 sales
- 19 Starling Close4 sales
- 5 Starling Close4 sales
- 100 Starling Close4 sales
- 10 Starling Close4 sales
- 80 Starling Close3 sales
- 42 Starling Close3 sales
- 58 Starling Close3 sales
- 29 Starling Close3 sales
- 20 Starling Close3 sales
- 106 Starling Close3 sales
- 96 Starling Close3 sales
- 15 Starling Close3 sales
- 3 Starling Close3 sales
- 72 Starling Close3 sales
- 60 Starling Close3 sales
- 4 Starling Close3 sales
- 2 Starling Close3 sales
Back to Manchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Starling Close, Manchester?
The median price paid in Starling Close, Manchester across every sale on the register is £138,000. 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 Starling Close, Manchester?
173 sales are on record for Starling Close, Manchester, the most recent completing on 17 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Starling Close, Manchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +13.8% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -24.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Starling Close, Manchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £193,623, set in 2018. 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 Starling Close, Manchester?
£2,054 per square metre, from the 62 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 17 Mar 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, “Starling Close, 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.