Ashton Lane, Sale house prices are built from 331 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £133,715. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +40.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.3%.
Median price paid
£133,715
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+40.0%
Change in real terms
+0.3%
Median per m²
£2,222
HM Land Registry331 sales107 with floor areaLatest sale 8 May 2026
Section 01
How Ashton Lane, Sale prices moved
The chart tracks the median Ashton Lane, Sale house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2026. 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 | 3 | £60,250 | £133,783 |
| 2000s | 10 | £101,000 | £183,992 |
| 2010s | 8 | £168,500 | £237,585 |
| 2020s | 7 | £180,000 | £183,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Ashton Lane, Sale is £314,000 in 2015; the lowest is £56,475 in 1999. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £87,000 to £195,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £188,723, so the real change over the whole record is +3.3% — about +0.11% 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: +40.0% in cash against +0.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 5 Windsor Court | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 104 | 7 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £472,000 | £472,000 |
| Flat 20 Windsor Court | 17 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £162,500 | £162,500 |
| Apartment 38 21 – 25 | 10 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £122,500 | £122,500 |
| 144 | 6 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| Flat 9 Grosvenor Court, 75 | 27 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| Apartment 56 21 – 25 | 11 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| Flat 9 Windsor Court | 17 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 99 | 10 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 45 | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £1,166,000 | £1,191,348 |
| Apartment 3 21 – 25 | 14 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £111,000 | £113,413 |
| Apartment 57 21 – 25 | 17 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £172,000 | £175,739 |
| Flat 6 Grosvenor Court, 75 | 27 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| Flat 1 Windsor Court | 24 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| Flat 14 Windsor Court | 18 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 102 | 8 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £441,940 |
| Apartment 18 21 – 25 | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £142,052 |
| 71 | 2 Sep 2024 | Detached | £919,000 | £967,007 |
| Flat 8 Rylatt Court | 28 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| Flat 4 Rylatt Court | 23 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £173,301 | £182,354 |
| Flat 9 Windsor Court | 2 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £169,000 | £177,828 |
| Flat 8 Windsor Court | 28 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £189,000 | £198,873 |
| Flat 10 the Homestead | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| Flat 7 Grosvenor Court, 75 | 18 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 78 | 8 Mar 2024 | Detached | £690,000 | £726,045 |
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 Ashton Lane, Sale values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 5 WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane | £100,000 (2006) | £195,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 104 Ashton Lane | £350,000 (2022) | £472,000 (2026) | +7.8% | +3.9% |
| FLAT 20 WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane | £105,000 (2006) | £162,500 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| APARTMENT 38 21 – 25 Ashton Lane | £110,671 (2016) | £122,500 (2026) | +1.0% | -2.3% |
| APARTMENT 56 21 – 25 Ashton Lane | £126,900 (2016) | £110,000 (2025) | -1.6% | -4.9% |
| FLAT 9 WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane | £95,000 (2006) | £165,000 (2025) | +2.9% | 0.0% |
| 45 Ashton Lane | £134,000 (1996) | £1,166,000 (2025) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| APARTMENT 3 21 – 25 Ashton Lane | £106,567 (2016) | £111,000 (2025) | +0.5% | -3.0% |
| APARTMENT 57 21 – 25 Ashton Lane | £147,467 (2016) | £172,000 (2025) | +1.7% | -1.7% |
| FLAT 6 GROSVENOR COURT, 75 Ashton Lane | £123,000 (2006) | £210,000 (2024) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| FLAT 1 WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane | £80,000 (2005) | £190,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 14 WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane | £110,000 (2005) | £170,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ashton Lane, Sale 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 | 237 | 71.6% | £110,671 | £35,000 – £240,000 |
| Semi-detached | 54 | 16.3% | £213,000 | £6,500 – £960,000 |
| Detached | 36 | 10.9% | £340,000 | £6,500 – £1,166,000 |
| Terraced | 4 | 1.2% | £56,000 | £45,000 – £200,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Ashton Lane, Sale
254 of the sales on record are leasehold and 77 freehold — 76.7% 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 £112,000 and the median freehold sale £257,500 — a gap of +129.9%. 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 | 254 | 76.7% | £112,000 |
| Freehold | 77 | 23.3% | £257,500 |
| New build | 57 | 17.2% | £133,200 |
| Existing home | 274 | 82.8% | £134,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.0%. 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 55 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 Ashton Lane, Sale
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 £133,715 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.19% 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 M33 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 Ashton Lane, Sale
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.
21 state and independent schools have a M33 postcode: 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton-on-Mersey School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,609 |
| Sale Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,352 |
| Sale High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,103 |
| Springfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 680 |
| Brooklands Primary School | Primary | Community school | 645 |
| Firs Primary School | Primary | Community school | 540 |
| Lime Tree Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 473 |
| Park Road Sale Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 461 |
| Worthington Primary School | Primary | Community school | 446 |
| Woodheys Primary School | Primary | Community school | 443 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Brooklands (Manchester Metrolink) | Tram | 0.4 km |
| Brooklands (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.4 km |
| Brooklands (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.4 km |
| Sale (Manchester Metrolink) | Metro or underground | 0.6 km |
Section 09
How Ashton Lane, Sale compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Ashton Lane, Sale sits below that national figure — -15.1%.
Within Sale the street ranks 547 of 690 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £173,000 (-22.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,222 per square metre, across 107 of the 331 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 £6,500 to £1,166,000. 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.
Ashton Lane, Sale 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
- Brooklands Road£115,000 median
- Northenden Road£158,050 median
- Glebelands Road£185,225 median
- Marsland Road£189,975 median
- Broad Road£164,975 median
- Dane Road£196,000 median
- Norris Road£195,000 median
- Moss Lane£204,975 median
- Washway Road£199,950 median
- Manor Avenue£172,000 median
- Whitehall Road£107,975 median
- Carrington Lane£168,000 median
- Harley Road£143,000 median
- Walton Road£242,500 median
- Harboro Road£197,000 median
- Alma Road£82,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 30, the HOMESTEAD Ashton Lane6 sales
- FLAT 9, RYLATT COURT Ashton Lane5 sales
- 95 Ashton Lane5 sales
- FLAT 25, the HOMESTEAD Ashton Lane5 sales
- FLAT 10, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane5 sales
- FLAT 5, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 1, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 8, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 3, the HOMESTEAD Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 33, the HOMESTEAD Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 4, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane4 sales
- 122 Ashton Lane4 sales
- 57 Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 27, the HOMESTEAD Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 29, the HOMESTEAD Ashton Lane4 sales
- FLAT 20, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane3 sales
- FLAT 9, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane3 sales
- 45 Ashton Lane3 sales
- FLAT 14, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane3 sales
- FLAT 4, RYLATT COURT Ashton Lane3 sales
- FLAT 7, RYLATT COURT Ashton Lane3 sales
- FLAT 23, the HOMESTEAD Ashton Lane3 sales
- FLAT 3, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane3 sales
- FLAT 18, WINDSOR COURT Ashton Lane3 sales
Back to Sale house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Ashton Lane, Sale?
The median price paid in Ashton Lane, Sale across every sale on the register is £133,715. 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 Ashton Lane, Sale?
331 sales are on record for Ashton Lane, Sale, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Ashton Lane, Sale house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +40.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Ashton Lane, Sale house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £314,000, set in 2015. 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 Ashton Lane, Sale?
£2,222 per square metre, from the 107 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 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, “Ashton Lane, Sale 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.