House prices in M25 (Prestwich)

Price per square metre data and charts to help you understand the housing market in M25 - stats were last calculated on 05 January 2026.

Defining 'M25'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "M25", this is also called the postcode district. There are no official postcode district names so I've just labelled it M25, Prestwich. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in M25 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in November 2025, Flat 80 Brentwood Court, Lowther Road, Prestwich, M25 9PX sold for £159,400. Given the internal area of 58 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £159,400 ÷ 58 sqm = £2,748.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on M25 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for houses vs flats in M25

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in M25 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £3,350 to £3,500, £3,500 to £3,650, £3,650 to £3,800 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 749 sales that took place in M25, in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in M25, Prestwich. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £3,730 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of M25 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for M25

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Prestwich. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'M25' as well as the 'M' postcode area.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'M25' is £3,250.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 749 transactions in M25, Prestwich half were sold for between £2,720 and £3,730 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 749 for M25, Prestwich.

    • Property price map for Prestwich

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'M25' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Prestwich
    House price map for Prestwich

    Will M25 house prices drop in 2025?

    House prices in M25 fell -0.0% in the last year, -3.8% after inflation. Whether or not this trend will continue depends on many factors, such as wage growth, net migration, interest rates and the level of house building. No one can predict these things with certainty however we can plot the historic trends in house prices in M25 (Prestwich) compared with the wider postcode area 'M'.You can extrapolate from this based on your own views.

    House price index for M25

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'M25' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in M25 and is set to 100 in 2004. The chart compares trends for M25, Prestwich against those of the broader postcode area 'M'. What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire Bury local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for M25
    M area M25 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 4.1% 1.3% 3.5% 0.7%
    20 yr total 124.2% 29.9% 99.9% 15.8%
    10 yr per annum 5.5% 2.3% 5.7% 2.4%
    10 yr total 71.3% 25.8% 73.3% 27.3%
    5 yr per annum 5.5% 0.9% 4.2% -0.3%
    5 yr total 30.7% 4.8% 23.0% -1.4%
    1 yr per annum 3.4% -0.5% -0.0% -3.8%
    1 yr total 3.4% -0.5% -0.0% -3.8%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, M25 district have seen a 0.7% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 15.8% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, M area have seen a 0.9% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 4.8% in real terms.

    Most recent M25 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Longfield Centre, , M25 1G 69 sqm £2,205 21
    Park View Road, , M25 1Q 64 sqm £3,153 20
    Milton Road, , M25 1P 77 sqm £3,053 19
    Lowther Road, , M25 9P 59 sqm £2,557 15
    Woodward Road, , M25 9T 77 sqm £3,291 13
    Clifton Road, , M25 3H 104 sqm £3,193 13
    Windsor Road, , M25 0D 96 sqm £3,222 12
    Bent Lane, , M25 1D 121 sqm £2,606 11

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'M25' compares to the other postcode districts nearby 'M25'.

    District Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    M9 Manchester £1,730 sqm £2,140 sqm £2,700 sqm 766
    M8 Manchester £1,820 sqm £2,310 sqm £2,920 sqm 408
    M7 Salford £2,160 sqm £2,670 sqm £3,240 sqm 501
    M6 Salford £2,260 sqm £2,680 sqm £3,160 sqm 1,052
    M50 Salford £2,930 sqm £3,430 sqm £4,100 sqm 429
    M5 Salford £2,340 sqm £2,880 sqm £4,160 sqm 903
    M46 Atherton £1,830 sqm £2,250 sqm £2,790 sqm 677
    M45 Whitefield £2,480 sqm £2,970 sqm £3,480 sqm 542
    M44 Irlam £2,290 sqm £2,710 sqm £3,180 sqm 513
    M43 Droylsden £2,360 sqm £2,870 sqm £3,330 sqm 593

    Raw data

    Our analysis of M25 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    Flat 80 Brentwood Court, Lowther Rd, £159,400
    Nov-2025
    		 58 2,748
    2, Sandringham Grange, £265,500
    Nov-2025
    		 75 3,540
    27, Ernest St, £155,055
    Oct-2025
    		 88 1,761

    See the entire list of all sales in M25 here.

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