Typical rates £95–£150/night · Flat 15% + VAT · One month's notice
Airbnb management, Salford Quays & MediaCity.
We're Matt and Steph, a family-run team hosting across Greater Manchester and Cheshire since May 2017. Our offices are in Hale and on Back Turner Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
80+ active listings · 75% average occupancy · Rated 9.2/10 from 8,700+ guest reviews
BBC/ITV corporate, The Lowry visitors, matchday stays · 1–2 bed waterfront apartments
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Indicative gross annual revenue before fees and running costs, from 2026 Greater Manchester and Cheshire market data and our portfolio of 80+ listings. Not a quote: your exact valuation is benchmarked against comparable properties we actually manage.
Salford Quays & MediaCity · 1 bedroom
£19,000–£34,000
indicative gross revenue per year · ≈£2,200/month · nightly £95–£125
Salford Quays & MediaCity, 1 bedroom: estimated £19,000 to £34,000 a year, about £2,200 a month.
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The Salford Quays & MediaCity market
What makes Salford Quays & MediaCity book
MediaCityUK gives Salford Quays something almost no neighbourhood outside the core has: institutional midweek demand. BBC and ITV productions, their contractors and their guests need beds Monday to Thursday, week after week, often for multi-week blocks that self-managing hosts rarely capture because their settings quietly turn long stays away.
Then the weekend flips the postcode's personality: The Lowry's theatre crowd, waterfront leisure and Old Trafford matchdays a tram stop away. The combination of corporate weekdays and event weekends produces some of the steadiest annual occupancy in Greater Manchester at rates kind enough to keep guests returning.
Media-industry midweek
Productions book repeatedly and for longer stays. It's dependable demand that most hosts misconfigure away.
Old Trafford adjacency
Football and cricket matchdays lift weekend rates a tram stop from the stadium.
Waterfront photography
Quays views give listings the scroll-stopping hero shot that converts.
Longer average stays
Multi-night corporate bookings mean fewer changeovers and fewer void nights.
Local knowledge, not a template
How we run Salford Quays & MediaCity specifically
The Quays rewards long-stay readiness: a washing machine, a real workspace and parking guidance matter more here than anywhere central, because the production booker filtering for a three-week stay won't compromise on them. Our minimum-stay and pricing settings court that booking deliberately, and our own MediaCity stock keeps the playbook honest.
9+
Years hosting
60,043+
Nights hosted
£10.6M+
Booking value
£6.88M+
Paid to owners
8,700+
Guest reviews
75%
Avg. occupancy
80+
Active listings
Portfolio figures as of October 2026 · Rated 9.2/10 from 8,700+ guest reviews on Airbnb and Booking.com · 4.7 on Google · 4.9 on Trustpilot
Salford Quays & MediaCity FAQ
Owners ask, we answer
What could a Quays apartment earn?
Typical rates run £95–£150 a night, with the real strength in occupancy: corporate midweek plus event weekends compound into very solid annual figures, especially for two-beds with parking. Run the estimator, then get the exact benchmark from the MediaCity properties we manage.
How do I attract the BBC/ITV production bookings?
Be bookable for them: amenity grid complete (washing machine, workspace, parking), minimum stays that welcome two-to-six-week bookings, presence on the channels production coordinators use, and rates structured for length. It's configuration, not luck, and it's what we set up on day one.
Do matchdays really reach the Quays?
Yes. Old Trafford is one tram stop away, and fixture weekends lift rates noticeably. European nights announced at short notice are pure dynamic-pricing wins, which is why our rates update daily rather than seasonally.
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