20th October 2025

The Manchester Monopoly board with real house prices 2025

A classic board game which is tucked away in most family homes ready for holidays, birthdays and long weekends, Monopoly has long been a staple in the boardgame industry. A name as recognisable as any other, this game has evolved countless times, being reimagined as special editions for cities all over the world, and Manchester hasn’t been excluded.

A trip around Manchester’s most iconic landmarks, sporting grounds, shopping hotspots and more, this North Western edition of the game was first released in 2000, and has grown in popularity along with the city itself. With more and more people flocking to Manchester in real life, we wondered if it might be time to see just how much it would really cost you to pick up a lot on Quay Street, Market Street or Albert Square. 

Join us as we investigate that very thing, comparing in-game price tags with the real life house prices of Manchester’s Monopoly places. We’ll also consider how much you could expect to get from ‘passing go’ by looking at the average salary for working in the city, what payments landing on the tax squares would demand, and how much you’d need to pay for the utilities places of Water Works and Electric Company.

Lumns Lane

Board Price → £60

2025 Average → £213,076

St Peter’s Square

Board Price → £60

2025 Average → £271,296

As the cheapest squares on the board, the brown properties give players a gentle start to the game – in the game at least. On the streets of Manchester, though, these may not be the best places to take your first step onto the property ladder.

On Lumns Lane, no property has been sold in the last 10 years, with the last sale happening in 2013 for £170,000. To get a more accurate idea of the cost in today’s market, we’ve widened the net and considered the surrounding streets to get an accurate real life price for this property of £213,076. That’s a far cry from the £60 you’d need to fund your purchase in the game, but not as far a cry as the £271,296 you’d need to secure a property near St Peter’s Square. This price tag seems a little more reasonable, however, when you consider the prime location of the square, which is also home to the Manchester Central Library and the esteemed Midland Hotel.

Albert Square

Board Price → £100

2025 Average → £357,773

Liverpool Road

Board Price → £100

2025 Average → £225,333

Bridge Street

Board Price → £120

2025 Average → £282,905

Seen as reliably affordable on the game board, Manchester’s real life equivalents for the light blue properties don’t stand by their reputation. Seeing the most expensive real-life lot, properties within a ¼ mile radius of Albert Square come to an average price of £357,773. It’s quite a jump down to the next most expensive among this group, with properties sold in the same radius of Bridge Street averaging £282,905. Last (and least in terms of price) we see Liverpool Road with a price tag of £225,333. The only place among the light blue properties which saw sales on the street itself, Liverpool Road is a residential street, with all of the properties sold in the last 12 months being flats.

Old Trafford Cricket Ground

Board Price → £140

2025 Average → £193,333

City of Manchester Stadium

Board Price → £140

2025 Average → £140,000

Old Trafford

Board Price → £160

2025 Average → £234,500

A city with an undeniably impressive sporting history (no matter who you support), the Manchester Monopoly board celebrates three of the city’s most iconic locations in the pink property set; the Old Trafford Cricket Ground, City of Manchester Stadium, now known as the Etihad Stadium, and Old Trafford. 

Near Old Trafford Cricket Ground, properties have been selling on Talbot Road for an average of £193,333 over the last year. Things are a little slower over on Ashton New Road where we find the Etihad Stadium. Here, there was only one property, a flat, which sold in the last year, which fetched a price of £140,000. Close by, Old Trafford itself holds steady at £234,500 based on sales from surrounding streets, a reminder that even legendary football turf doesn’t necessarily mean sky-high house prices.

The Trafford Centre

Board Price → £180

2025 Average → £262,312

Market Street

Board Price → £180

22025 Average → £224,729

Arndale Centre

Board Price → £200

2025 Average → £226,409

The orange set often trips players up with frequent visits (or maybe it just feels that way with Free Parking so close), and in Manchester, these places are all about shopping. As Manchester’s main retail hub, people flock to The Trafford Centre to eat, shop and drop, and those who never want to leave can expect to pay around £262,312 to get their own property. Most sold properties in this area were semi-detached properties, with a good few terraced homes selling too, making a change from the more common city-centre flats the city is increasingly well known for. 

Coming up a little cheaper than The Trafford Centre, the area around Market Street (including Turner Street and Thomas Street) has an average sale price of £224,729. The Arndale Centre’s average sits very close to this at £226,409, based on sales around High Street. These aren’t the city’s most expensive addresses, but like the game board, they’re lively places with plenty of footfall.

Strangeways Brewery

Board Price → £220

2025 Average → £250,959

Derby Street

Board Price → £220

2025 Average → £82,000

Coronation Street

Board Price → £240

2025 Average → £209,404

The red properties on the board bring a mix of culture and residential quirks, each bringing their own unique feel to the lineup. From Strangeways Brewery, which was famous for being the original birthplace of Boddingtons Bitter, to Derby Street’s industrial contribution as a working area outside of the city centre, there’s not much tying these red lots together. Things get stranger still when you consider Coronation Street which, while as famous a street as they come, doesn’t actually exist in real life. 

In terms of real life values, the disparity in price is just as strong. House prices in Strangeways reached an average of £250,959 over the last year, with a majority of flats being sold. Derby Street, on the other hand, isn’t just the cheapest among this property group, but the whole board altogether, with only one flat sold within a quarter mile radius of the street, which went for £82,000. Things jump straight back up again when we hit the fictional cobbles of Coronation Street, with prices around MediaCityUK averaging £209,404.

Hunts Bank

Board Price → £260

2025 Average → £168,949

Quay Street

Board Price → £260

2025 Average → £272,792

Withy Grove

Board Price → £280

2025 Average → £207,630

Next up, we have a set of busy streets in city-centre spots as the yellow properties. Sales are a little slower here, so we’ve widened our net to include the quarter mile surrounding these streets, giving us an average of £168,949 for properties around Hunts Bank. Quay Street increased this significantly, with a sales average of £272,792, before dropping back down to £207,630 for Withy Grove. Given that Quay Street is in Manchester’s business district, and Withy Grove is mostly a public street, these slow sales are expected.

All Saints

Board Price → £300

2025 Average → £198,200

Oxford Road

Board Price → £300

2025 Average → £250,602

Sackville Street

Board Price → £320

2025 Average → £225,667

Greens are known for their prestige spots close to the end of the board, but in Manchester, the first two spots are more likely to be occupied by students than well-funded property moguls. All Saints, near Lower Ormond Street, has Manchester Metropolitan University on its doorstep, meaning the local property market is dominated by individual flats and larger buy-to-let properties perfect for converting into student or young professional HMOs, with an average sale price of £198,200. Oxford Road shows the area’s diversity, with flats, terraced houses and semi-detached properties all seen here, bringing the average to a strong £250,602. 

Sales were slower in the more commercial area of Sackville Street which, as an odd-one out for the student-heavy green properties, is located in Manchester’s Chinatown. With more office buildings and storefronts than residential properties, the average came to £225,667 for the three flats sold over the last year.

Sport City

Board Price → £350

2025 Average → £227,500

The Quays

Board Price → £400

2025 Average → £252,595

The final two are usually the priciest prizes, and while Manchester’s versions don’t hit Mayfair levels, they’re still strong contenders. Sport City saw just one property sale last year, a two-bed terrace at £227,500, while The Quays proved to be much more sought after, with plenty of apartment properties available in landmark developments such as City Lofts, Millennium Point, and the N V Building. Here, flats have sold for an average of £252,595.

Passing Go

Board Price → £200

Average North West Salary → £35,170

Passing Go (or landing on it if you’re really lucky) will refresh your funds for the next run around the board, but in real life, that annual salary takes a bit more effort than a few rolls of the dice. In the North West, the average salary comes to £35,170 which, while below the UK median salary of £37,430, still puts property ownership within reach for the area. 

Of course, there’s still tax squares to consider (both in game and in real life), but with income tax estimated at £4,518.20 for this salary, and national insurance contributions at £1,808.00, the estimated take-home pay of £28,843.80 is still respectable.

Electric Company

Board Price → £150

2025 Average → £1,234.53

Water Works

Board Price → £150

2025 Average → £603

Not something the average home-buyer or investor would consider purchasing in real life, unless of course they had considerable funds and an interest in the home utilities sector, the Electric Company and Water Works spaces are the Not something the average home-buyer or investor would consider purchasing in real life, unless of course they had considerable funds and an interest in the home utilities sector, the Electric Company and Water Works spaces are the last to consider in our research. To give you an idea of what you’d have to pay when landing on this owned square, we’ve calculated the average gas and electricity bill to be £1,234.53 and the average water payment at £603 per year. This is based on the majority of houses sold in Manchester over the last year being flats, which, as a UK average, consume 7,500 kWh of gas and 1,800 kWh of electricity annually for an estimated occupancy of 1-2 people.

Find auction properties in Manchester 

Manchester’s Monopoly board is as diverse as the city itself, with prices ranging from the budget Derby Street at £82,000, all the way to Albert Square where lots went for well over £350,000. With something to suit a range of budgets, whether you’re looking for a student buy-to-let near Oxford Road, or a residential flat for yourself on The Quays, browse the lots we have available in our Property Auctions in Manchester.