Whitelow Road, Manchester house prices are built from 227 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 28 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £165,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +89.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +40.3%.
Median price paid
£165,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+89.4%
Change in real terms
+40.3%
Median per m²
£2,685
HM Land Registry227 sales57 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Whitelow Road, Manchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Whitelow Road, Manchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. 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 | 1 | £49,500 | £109,913 |
| 2000s | 8 | £137,500 | £250,484 |
| 2010s | 7 | £172,498 | £243,221 |
| 2020s | 3 | £323,500 | £330,533 |
The highest yearly median on record for Whitelow Road, Manchester is £520,000 in 2020; the lowest is £49,500 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £49,500 to £281,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £107,377, so the real change over the whole record is +183.0% — about +3.93% 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: +89.4% in cash against +40.3% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 28 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £720,000 | £720,000 |
| 55 | 16 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £465,100 | £475,211 |
| 53 | 9 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £517,500 | £528,750 |
| 1 Lyndhurst Court | 26 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 50 | 24 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £722,500 | £760,243 |
| Flat 8 Chorlton View, 6 | 2 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 51 | 15 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £580,000 | £626,667 |
| Apartment 5 17 | 13 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 4 Lyndhurst Court | 18 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 10 Lyndhurst Court | 30 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £302,500 | £326,839 |
| 9 Lyndhurst Court | 9 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| Flat 2 Whitelow Lodge, 12 | 17 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £177,000 | £191,241 |
| Flat 2 5 | 12 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £246,000 | £285,012 |
| Flat 4 Chorlton View, 6 | 5 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| Apartment 6 17 | 12 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £262,000 | £303,550 |
| Flat 3 Whitelow Lodge, 12 | 21 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| Flat 5 Whitelow Lodge, 12 | 26 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 12 Lyndhurst Court | 18 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £222,366 |
| 38 | 28 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £715,000 | £903,360 |
| 55a | 30 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| Apartment 4 17 | 28 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £282,000 | £356,290 |
| 59 | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| Flat 7 Chorlton View, 6 | 25 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £213,000 | £269,113 |
| 53 | 30 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £371,000 | £468,737 |
| 55b | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £365,000 | £461,156 |
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 Whitelow 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 Whitelow Road | £150,000 (2001) | £720,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.6% |
| 53 Whitelow Road | £371,000 (2021) | £517,500 (2025) | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| 1 LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road | £95,000 (2007) | £270,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.2% |
| FLAT 8 CHORLTON VIEW, 6 Whitelow Road | £140,250 (2006) | £220,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 51 Whitelow Road | £229,000 (2004) | £580,000 (2023) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
| APARTMENT 5 17 Whitelow Road | £167,950 (2005) | £260,000 (2023) | +2.5% | -0.5% |
| 4 LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road | £145,000 (2005) | £245,000 (2023) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| 10 LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road | £206,000 (2005) | £302,500 (2023) | +2.2% | -0.8% |
| 9 LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road | £207,000 (2005) | £305,000 (2023) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| FLAT 2 WHITELOW LODGE, 12 Whitelow Road | £33,000 (1998) | £177,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| FLAT 2 5 Whitelow Road | £55,000 (1995) | £246,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| FLAT 4 CHORLTON VIEW, 6 Whitelow Road | £140,207 (2006) | £235,000 (2022) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Whitelow 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 159 | 70.0% | £150,000 | £33,000 – £305,000 |
| Semi-detached | 45 | 19.8% | £305,000 | £55,000 – £855,000 |
| Terraced | 23 | 10.1% | £215,000 | £116,000 – £517,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Whitelow Road, Manchester
166 of the sales on record are leasehold and 61 freehold — 73.1% 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 £151,000 and the median freehold sale £325,000 — a gap of +115.2%. 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 | 166 | 73.1% | £151,000 |
| Freehold | 61 | 26.9% | £325,000 |
| New build | 51 | 22.5% | £147,000 |
| Existing home | 176 | 77.5% | £176,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -16.7%. 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 3 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 Whitelow Road, 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 £165,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.88% 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 Whitelow Road, 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 Whitelow Road, Manchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Whitelow Road, Manchester sits above that national figure — +4.8%.
Within Manchester the street ranks 1925 of 8967 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,000 (+39.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,685 per square metre, across 57 of the 227 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 £33,000 to £855,000. 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.
Whitelow Road, 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
- Nell Lane£200,000 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
- Ellesmere Road£156,000 median
- Ivygreen Road£170,000 median
- Hackness Road£103,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, 5 Whitelow Road7 sales
- FLAT 2, WHITELOW LODGE, 12 Whitelow Road5 sales
- APARTMENT 4, 17 Whitelow Road5 sales
- FLAT 10, WHITELOW LODGE, 12 Whitelow Road5 sales
- 4, LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road4 sales
- 10, LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 6, 17 Whitelow Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, WHITELOW LODGE, 12 Whitelow Road4 sales
- 55B Whitelow Road4 sales
- 39 Whitelow Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 3, 17 Whitelow Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, WHITELOW LODGE, 12 Whitelow Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, WHITELOW LODGE, 12 Whitelow Road4 sales
- 62 Whitelow Road4 sales
- 15, LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road4 sales
- FLAT 14, CHORLTON VIEW, 6 Whitelow Road4 sales
- APARTMENT 1, 17 Whitelow Road4 sales
- FLAT 9, WHITELOW LODGE, 12 Whitelow Road4 sales
- 41 Whitelow Road3 sales
- 1, LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road3 sales
- 51 Whitelow Road3 sales
- 9, LYNDHURST COURT Whitelow Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, CHORLTON VIEW, 6 Whitelow Road3 sales
- 55A Whitelow Road3 sales
Back to Manchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Whitelow Road, Manchester?
The median price paid in Whitelow Road, Manchester across every sale on the register is £165,000. 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 Whitelow Road, Manchester?
227 sales are on record for Whitelow Road, Manchester, the most recent completing on 28 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Whitelow Road, Manchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +89.4% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +40.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Whitelow Road, Manchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £520,000, set in 2020. 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 Whitelow Road, Manchester?
£2,685 per square metre, from the 57 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 28 Jan 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, “Whitelow 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.