Data as of October 2026 · computed by Flatscout from live cross-portal listings and official open data
Manchester is the biggest rental market outside London, and it moves fast: a decade of city-centre tower building around Deansgate and Ancoats has stacked thousands of new flats next to Victorian terraces in Chorlton and Didsbury, with two large universities keeping the room market busy year-round.
Manchester currently has 10,627 live rental listings across the portals Flatscout tracks — Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom — with a median asking rent of £1,350 a month for a whole property. Rooms in shared homes start lower, and the by-postcode table below shows how much the same budget buys in different corners of the city.
Everything on this page is computed from listings Flatscout scrapes and de-duplicates around the clock, joined with official open data: the ONS Price Index of Private Rents for the long-run trend, ONS earnings data for affordability, police.uk street-level crime, VOA council-tax bands, Ofcom broadband coverage, and EPC certificates matched to the homes actually being advertised right now. Figures refresh continuously — the numbers below were last computed in October 2026.
If you're actively hunting, the data has one practical message: well-priced Manchester rentals go in hours, not days. Flatscout watches every portal and can alert you by email, WhatsApp or Telegram within minutes of a matching listing appearing — before most renters have refreshed the app.
The newest live rental listings in Manchester, merged across portals and agents. Each links to its Flatscout listing page with price history and area facts.
| Bedrooms | Median rent | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | £1,000/mo | 352 |
| 1 bed | £1,100/mo | 2,202 |
| 2 bed | £1,350/mo | 3,524 |
| 3 bed | £1,500/mo | 1,367 |
| 4+ bed | £2,492/mo | 1,459 |
| Room in shared home | £700/mo | 1,723 |
| Outcode | Median rent | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| M60 | £1,750/mo | 13 |
| M14 | £1,527/mo | 1,605 |
| M15 | £1,500/mo | 873 |
| M20 | £1,500/mo | 660 |
| M3 | £1,500/mo | 298 |
| M4 | £1,475/mo | 1,211 |
| M1 | £1,463/mo | 1,048 |
| M2 | £1,450/mo | 12 |
| M19 | £1,300/mo | 126 |
| M32 | £1,300/mo | 66 |
| M28 | £1,295/mo | 130 |
| M23 | £1,250/mo | 53 |
| M31 | £1,250/mo | 10 |
| M12 | £1,200/mo | 54 |
| M13 | £1,200/mo | 235 |
| M22 | £1,200/mo | 83 |
| M25 | £1,200/mo | 81 |
| M38 | £1,200/mo | 34 |
| M40 | £1,200/mo | 139 |
| M41 | £1,200/mo | 61 |
| M43 | £1,200/mo | 80 |
| M45 | £1,200/mo | 91 |
| M21 | £1,198/mo | 112 |
| M16 | £1,195/mo | 550 |
| M11 | £1,150/mo | 92 |
| M18 | £1,150/mo | 65 |
| M35 | £1,150/mo | 69 |
| M9 | £1,150/mo | 112 |
| M17 | £1,113/mo | 30 |
| M24 | £1,100/mo | 106 |
| M29 | £1,100/mo | 34 |
| M34 | £1,100/mo | 79 |
| M8 | £1,100/mo | 148 |
| M27 | £1,075/mo | 166 |
| M44 | £1,075/mo | 29 |
| M30 | £990/mo | 202 |
| M26 | £875/mo | 97 |
| M46 | £850/mo | 47 |
The ONS Price Index of Private Rents puts the average rent across ALL Manchester tenancies at £1,358/mo in June 2026 — up 3.5% on a year earlier. In January 2020 it was £911/mo. The ONS average sits below asking-rent medians because it includes existing tenancies, not just newly advertised homes.
Renting at the ONS average of £1,358/mo takes roughly 54% of the local median gross salary of £30,067 a year (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.
Of 10,627 live listings, 46% advertise a garden and 11% advertise parking. Portals under-report features, so treat these as a floor.
| Band | Listings |
|---|---|
| A | 6 |
| B | 1,228 |
| C | 2,470 |
| D | 1,808 |
| E | 387 |
| F | 42 |
| G | 8 |
| Band | Properties |
|---|---|
| Band A | 137,790 |
| Band B | 43,110 |
| Band C | 38,170 |
| Band D | 21,260 |
| Band E | 7,640 |
| Band F | 3,390 |
| Band G | 1,270 |
| Band H | 150 |
Residential premises coverage in Manchester: 84% full fibre (FTTP), 89% gigabit-capable, 97% superfast (30 Mbit/s+) (Ofcom Connected Nations).
No single portal has every home — Flatscout merges and de-duplicates them all, so each property is counted once.
The median asking rent in Manchester is £1,350 per month for a whole property, based on 10,627 live listings tracked by Flatscout across Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom (October 2026).
Flatscout is currently tracking 10,627 active rental listings in Manchester, with 1,959 new listings added in the last 7 days. Listings from every portal are merged and de-duplicated, so each home is counted once.
The median asking rent for a one-bedroom property in Manchester is £1,100 per month, while a room in a shared home has a median of £700 (October 2026).
Renting at the ONS average of £1,358/mo takes roughly 54% of the local median gross salary of £30,067 (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.