{"id":669832,"date":"2026-01-02T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/669832\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:57:17","slug":"whalley-range-and-firswood-declared-greater-manchesters-property-hotspot-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/669832\/","title":{"rendered":"Whalley Range and Firswood declared Greater Manchester’s ‘property hotspot’ of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

House prices in the city centre are also down by 20 per cent(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Firswood and Whalley Range saw the third biggest jump in house prices in the country in 2025, according to new figures.<\/p>\n

Average house prices in the M16 postcode, which covers much of Whalley Range<\/a>, Firswood and Old Trafford<\/a>, shot up by over \u00a361,000 last year, with the typical home in the postcode area selling for over \u00a3333,000 in 2025.<\/p>\n

That figure represents a 23% increase on the average price in 2024, and is the third highest year-on-year increase of any postcode area in the country.<\/p>\n

Firswood neighbours Chorlton<\/a>, a popular and pricey postcode where prices have increased less sharply – but are now the most expensive in the borough of Manchester.<\/p>\n

The Barbakan delicatessen in Chorlton. (Image: ABNM Photography)<\/p>\n

The typical home in M21 now costs nearly \u00a3424,000, which may suggest why Firswood is seeing an increase as people spill over into neighbouring areas.<\/p>\n

But after M16, it’s the OL1 postcode has seen the next largest percentage increases Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n

This postcode, which covers Derker, Higginshaw, parts of the town entre and Chadderton<\/a> Fold, has seen prices rise by 18% in the last year to an average of \u00a3203,000.<\/p>\n

The M6 postcode area, which covers Claremont, Irlams O’ Th’ Height, Charlestown, and Whitlane, saw the third highest increase, with average prices rising by 15%.<\/p>\n

Derker, Oldham.(Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

M9 is next – Harpurhey<\/a> and Blackley<\/a> – with rises of 10%, followed jointly by M35 and M12 at 9% each.<\/p>\n

But these increases don’t in fact the full picture of housing in Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n

The M1 postcode, covering a portion of the city centre, has in fact seen the largest drops in average house prices.<\/p>\n

Manchester city centre in 2023. (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The typical home in the city centre postcode area was \u00a3253,000 in 2025. That\u2019s 20% less than in 2024.<\/p>\n

In M15 – which covers Hulme<\/a> and some of the city\u2019s southern tower blocks – prices fell by 15% to \u00a3267,000.<\/p>\n

But the postcode with the biggest drop in house prices fell in one of London’s most exclusive and sought-after neighourhoods.<\/p>\n

House prices in SW1 X, which covers Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Chelsea, fell by 51% in the last year, down to an average of \u00a32.7 million from \u00a35.5 million in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House prices in the city centre are also down by 20 per cent(Image: Manchester Evening News) Firswood and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,8832,393,4884,2465,8086,1286,10003,16,15,42704],"class_list":{"0":"post-669832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chorlton","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-centre","14":"tag-oldham","15":"tag-property-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-whalley-range"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115827746216412692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}