The Greater Manchester postcode named 'millionaire's row' where £1m homes are flying off the shelf

One postcode has been named Greater Manchester's 'millionaire's row' after more properties sold for over £1 million than anywhere else in the region. Over 14,000 houses sold for more than £1 million across England and Wales over the last year, according to the M.E.N's exclusive analysis of the latest Land Registry data.

Almost half of them were sold in London, with a total of 286 sales in the SW11 postcode area, which covers Battersea and Clapham. Meanwhile, the most expensive home sold in the last 12 months was an apartment in Mayfair, London, which cost its new owners a whopping £38.64 million.

In the Greater Manchester region, a total of 109 houses sold for more than a million in the last 12 months. The majority of those sales were in WA15, an affluent postcode which covers parts of Altrincham, Hale, Hale Barns and Timperley in the Trafford borough, where there were 34 million-pound plus sales over the last year ranging from £1m to £2.57m.

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The most expensive house sold was a property named White Acres on Brooks Drive in Hale Barns, which sold for £2.57m in July 2023. This was followed by 16 Broadway in Hale, which sold for £2.55m in June 2023 and 45 Carrwood in Hale Barns, which was bought for £2.3m in November 2023.

27 Park Lane in Hale sold for £2m in May last year, whilst 17 Gorse Bank Road in Hale Barns, 13 Leicester Road in Hale, 15 Harrop Road in Hale, 9 Planetree Road in Hale and 4 Bower Road in Hale all sold for more than £1.5m between April and October last year.

Properties in WA15 had an overall average price of £598,853 over the last year, which is 8 percent higher than the peak in 2021, according to the Land Registry.

The majority of sales in WA15 were semi-detached properties, selling for an average price of £541,843. Detached properties sold for an average of £962,146, with terraced properties fetching £480,494.

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At the other end of the scale, Middlesbrough is the cheapest place to buy a house in England and Wales. Homes in the TS1 postcode area sold for an average of £69,874 each in the year to the end of March. That’s the lowest average of any postcode area in the country, excluding those with fewer than 20 sales.

The DN31 postcode area, which covers Grimsby, had the next lowest average with homes there being sold for an average of £78,192 each.

In DL4 - Shildon in County Durham - homes were sold for an average of £85,666 each. In TS3, covering east Middlesbrough, the average was £85,809, in BD1, central Bradford, the average was £86,889, and in CF43, Ferndale, north of Cardiff, it was £98,522.