Renting in Manchester
Median asking rent · all sizes · 3,249 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Manchester before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Manchester is £1,445 a month, from 3,249 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,150/moasking · 727 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,383/moasking · 1,176 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,600/moasking · 448 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £3,466/moasking · 823 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £700/moasking · 116 listings · Oct 2026 |
Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated . Weekly prices normalised to monthly. Each figure counts the live listings behind it; rooms are per room.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent in Manchester by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/manchester, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Manchester
Manchester currently has 3,365 rental listings on the property sites we track, 3,249 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Manchester is £1,445 a month, from 3,249 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 1,052 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 37% are houses and the rest are flats. How we measure this
Rents vary sharply by postcode. Median asking rents for homes of all sizes run from £1,000 a month in M32 (7 live listings) to £3,466 in M14 (361 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Manchester (Dwellio, October 2026). For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Manchester, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Manchester is £1,150 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 727 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Manchester is £1,383 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 1,176 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Manchester is £1,600 a month, 11% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 448 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Manchester is £3,466 a month, 140% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 823 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Manchester is £700 a month, from 116 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property. Each size needs at least 10 live listings. Studio figures are hidden for now: listings whose bedroom count we couldn’t read were being counted as studios. How we measure this
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Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in Manchester is £1,380 a month, up 4.6% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). The Office for National Statistics’ Price Index of Private Rents is the official series for rents being paid, including long-running tenancies; Dwellio’s figures above are asking rents.
Annual
+4.6%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+45%
since 2021
Source: Office for National Statistics · Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Updated monthly with a ~2-month lag. ONS uses Broad Rental Market Areas in Scotland — figures may aggregate beyond the city itself. How we measure this
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in Manchester spend an estimated 55% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£30,067/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
55%
Expensive — half of local median pay before tax.
Sources: Office for National Statistics — Price Index of Private Rents (latest month) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Table 8.7a (median annual gross pay, place of residence). The 30% line is the conventional rent-burden threshold above which housing costs are considered to crowd out other essentials. How we measure this
Property types
60% of listings
36% of listings
4% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 38% of the 1,049 houses currently advertised in Manchester.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 2,358 live listings in 37 districts (October 2026). Districts with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental; rooms in shared houses are left out.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in Manchester, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/manchester, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Manchester
Live signal across 3,365 Manchester rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
63%
of 958 Manchester listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
73%
of 1,197 Manchester listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Floor area
£2.18/sq ft a monthMedian asking rent per sq ft · all sizes · 445 live listings · October 2026Median 717 sqft across the 445 Manchester listings that publish floor area.
Live from the portals
1,052 homes came onto the Manchester rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Vox, Trentham Street M15
1 bed property
Chapel Wharf, Salford M3
1 bed property
The Slate Yard M3
2 bed property
Broadside M4
1 bed property
Angel Gardens M4
2 bed property
The Green Rooms M50
3 bed property
The Slate Yard M3
2 bed flat/apartment
The Green Rooms, M50
1 bed flat/apartment
Chapel Wharf, Salford, M3
3 bed flat/apartment
The Slate Yard, M3
1 bed flat/apartment
The Slate Yard, M3
1 bed flat/apartment
Angel Gardens, M4
2 bed flat/apartment
Broadside, M4
1 bed flat/apartment
Vox, Trentham Street, M15
5 bed terraced house
BRAILSFORD ROAD, FALLOWFIELD
3 bed terraced house
Jennison Close, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M18
3 bed terraced house
Lumb Lane, Droylsden, Manchester
2 bed flat/apartment
Barlow Moor Road, West Didsbury, Manchester, M20
5 bed terraced house
Eades Street, Salford, M6
3 bed flat/apartment
Old Lansdowne Road, West Didsbury, Manchester, M20
6 bed property
Schuster Road, Manchester, M14
4 bed terraced house
Carill Drive, Fallowfield, Manchester, M14
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Clive Street, Manchester, M4
1 bed flat/apartment
Kampus, 44 Aytoun Street, M1
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Manchester. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Manchester homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band A–B across 249,300 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
1.93
≈ Band A–B
Stock
249k
249,300 properties
Source: HM Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax Stock of Properties (CTSOP1.0), extract dated 31 March 2024. Covers England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate band schemes and aren't included.
Broadband · Ofcom Connected Nations
84% of Manchester premises can already get full-fibre and 89% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
84%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
89%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
97%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
461 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Manchester), July 2025, covering 242,333 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
55% of Manchester homes hold a current EPC in bands A–C — the bands that meet the proposed 2030 minimum energy-efficiency standard for rented stock.
Bands A–C
55%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
45%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
260k
259,579 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Manchester. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
9 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Manchester centroid. The five closest:
Crown Street Primary School
Primary · Free schools · M15 4ZB
St Philip's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · M15 6BT
St Wilfrid's RC Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · M15 5BJ
St Philip's CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · M3 5LF
The Cathedral School of St Peter and St John RC Primary
Primary · Voluntary aided school · M3 6LU
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Manchester centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
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Frequently asked
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Manchester is £1,445 a month, from 3,249 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Manchester is £1,150 a month, 20% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 727 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Manchester is £1,383 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 1,176 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Manchester is £1,600 a month, 11% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 448 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Manchester is £3,466 a month, 140% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 823 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Manchester is £700 a month, from 116 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 3,365 rental properties available in Manchester, with 1,052 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Across North West
How Manchester compares with the other 24 places we track in North West — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
Every city, every region, one table: the UK rental index.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across North West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/manchester, updated 28 October 2026.
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