Manchester City Centre's population grew approximately 10% from 2014 to 2017 and is projected to grow 37% between 2018 to 2024. However, Pickup in construction last year still fell short of the target by 716 homes.

Over 35,000 people graduate from a Manchester university each year, producing young professionals well-versed in a wealth of employable skills. With graduates holding expertise in languages, business management and data analytics, businesses in Manchester have an extremely healthy talent pool to choose from. Manchester’s universities are also regular collaborators with local businesses, helping them access bespoke training courses and cutting-edge research.

With around 100,000 students in the city, Greater Manchester is home to one of the largest student communities in Europe. Students flock to Manchester from all over the globe, with international students from almost every country on Earth living here. Manchester also has a fantastic graduate retention rate with over half of all higher education leavers deciding to stay in the city, creating great opportunities for Manchester buy-to-let investors interested in renting to young professionals.

Salford, along with other Greater Manchester authorities, has a key role to play in accommodating much of the anticipated growth in the region. It has yet to reach its full potential and is continuing to see growing interest from savvy investors looking for pockets of value.

Boasting a population of 251,300, the city has experienced significant growth over the last 15 years at a considerably higher rate (16.2%) than Greater Manchester (10.9%) or the North West (7.0%). Salford is a major employment centre which makes a strong contribution towards Greater Manchester’s economy.

There are estimated to be over 9,500 active businesses in the city, employing over 127,000 people with a significant number of these concentrated to City Centre Salford and Salford Quays. Major companies such as TalkTalk and Vodafone, call it home as well as MediaCityUK, a £500million mixed-use development with more than 250 businesses, including BBC and ITV. The city’s unemployment rate has seen a substantial reduction due to this business influx, falling to 4.9% in June 2018.

Another contributor to the strong employment level is the high-growth industry focused on finance and digital. Salford has one of the first operational 5G networks in the UK and is concentrated to the financial and professional services, alongside the creative and media sectors too. This is likely to bring more business and professionals to Salford, further improving the area’s liveability for work and play.

Manchester is home to two significant teams in the world of professional football, Manchester United and Manchester City. Manchester United boasts over 1-1 billion worldwide fans and is one of footballs bigger flagship clubs, being significantly popular in major markets such as China as a direct result of the clubs remarkable success through the 1990’s and even in the 2000,s, two full decades of great success. More recently, Manchester United's success has been directly challenged by their neighbours Manchester City, who burst onto the scene in 2008, once being taken over by HRH Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan – the deputy prime minister of the United Arad Emirates. As recent as 2019, Manchester city won the English Premier League for the 4th time in just seven years, a remarkable achievement.

Both the giant football teams from Manchester, both United and City, have brought great exposure to Manchester, with both teams actively competing in European competition, more fans can view them from around the world, meaning the potential for exposure is forever growing. .. Read more

In the 80’s and the 90’s Manchester has offered an abundance of worldwide famous musicians, such as The Stone Roses and The Oasis. Both of which, have sold millions and millions of albums globally, selling out stadiums all around the world consistently. The lead singer of The Oasis – Liam Gallagher has performed globally, even performing in Dubai, Beijing and Shenzhen to name a few since 2017 alone.

Not just football teams and worldwide musicians, but Manchester is also the birthplace of significant names in the History of Science, Technology and politics too. Read More…

Manchester has a variety of high-profile projects which are currently underway. Funded by local and national government and international institutional investors, these are a few projects that are all set to transform the city of Manchester for the better. These will make Manchester even more accessible as well as altering the scenery too, making Manchester a much more aesthetically pleasing area to live, something for all residents to enjoy and appreciate.

Manchester has a real estate sector that is continuing to appeal to property investors, not just on a national basis but worldwide too. Appealing to international investment.

With the rising population in Manchester, there are more global businesses relocating and expanding to Manchester City Centre and the expanding economy, Manchester’s property market is struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of growth, struggling to match the demands. Manchester’s current population is rising at a rate 15 times faster than the rate of new homes being built.

Since the year 2015, the overall price per square foot for a new build residential property within Manchester had risen by nearly 32%- a staggering growth statistic.

The City Centre of Manchester needs to produce 2,500 new homes per year in order to meet the current demand, let alone the future demands of the forever growing population of Manchester.

In the last decade, only 1,150 new properties have been developed per year, meaning that meeting demands is proving to be a huge struggle. .. Read more

For years now, global investors looked towards the UK for investment and typically opted for London as the returns on investment in the capital would typically outperform any other region in the UK. However with property prices soaring in the capital, the rental yields decreased whereas the north west region, especially Manchester, continued to grow and grow, proving the more favourable option to investors now. London has now got the slowest rate or price growth in properties compared to any region in the country. Many investors have now turned to Manchester in order to achieve the highest possible capital growth from UK real estate.

In the year 2019, the average price of a property in Central London was £1.55million , whereas the average then in Manchester’s city centre was £214,881.

Yearly, property growth for London in August was sitting at just 0.2% whereas the prices in Manchester increased by 4.5% throughout the same time period.

London also now has the slowest yield growth in the country too while properties in Manchester are generating roughly 69% higher returns on investments than London as a whole. .. Read more

• As Manchester is a city that is just at the beginning of its cycle of growth, the city is the location that is mostly sought after by the global investor community.
• Property price growth in Manchester has exceeded the average across the whole of the UK, seeing a price increase much more than any other region in the country as a whole.
• Within the 12 month period to June of 2018 alone, the Manchester property values had risen by 7.4% while the UK average at the time was sitting at 4.6%.
• The prices for apartments in Manchester increased by 51% within six years, through 2011 to 2017.
• Private rental rates within the Manchester City Centre had increased by 38% through 2014 to 2018, in comparison to the average in England being just 15%.