The new 'Metrolink map' that shows just how much it costs to rent a one-bed flat near EVERY tram stop in Greater Manchester

Seven years ago, a Manchester-based digital marketing agency released a rental cost guide for Greater Manchester. Designed to look exactly like the Metrolink map, it revealed average rent prices for a one-bedroom flat near every tram stop across the region.

Back in 2015, the map's creator Kirsty Allen, now Digital Media Team 's marketing manager, told the MEN that she was inspired by a rent map that had been created for the London Underground, and wanted to do the same for our city.

The original Manchester rental map was a hit with our readers, and now - seven years later - DMT has brought out a new revitalised version showing what rent costs are like across the region almost a decade on.

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A lot has changed in Greater Manchester in the last seven years which has most certainly impacted the rental market. Two of the biggest factors have been the coronavirus pandemic and the cost of living crisis, which have pushed rent prices further up.

But other changes such as the mass of newly built rental homes in the city centre, and the addition of the Red Line going to the Trafford Centre, have also affected how the map looks now.

"We knew that rental prices had increased significantly since 2015, but none of us were ready to see just how much they had gone up," revealed DMT ahead of sharing the data.

The most expensive location on the 2015 map was torn between Piccadilly and Piccadilly Gardens, which had the highest average rent cost of £785 per month.

Fast forward to 2022, rent costs in Piccadilly are now £900 a month, with Piccadilly Gardens overtaking at £950 per month. But as times change, neither of these stops are even a patch on