Two-bedroom apartments from £369,305 in Manchester’s most amenity-rich address on Oxford Road

Introduction

There are apartments in Manchester and then there is Vita Living Circle Square North. The difference is not just the address, though Oxford Road puts everything in reach. It is the way the building is run: Vita Group have managed it since the day it opened, the team know every resident by name, and the care that goes into keeping this place at its best is visible the moment you walk through the door. If you ever decide to rent it out, Vita Group handle that too, in-house, without fuss. For now, though, this is about where you are going to live.

The Apartment

The apartment extends to 716 sq ft across two double bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, an open-plan living and dining space and a fully integrated kitchen. It sits on an upper floor overlooking Symphony Park, and on a clear day the view stretches well beyond the city's edge. Everything is in place: fully furnished, finished to a high specification, and ready for the day you arrive. There is nothing to do and nothing to organise. Just move in.

The Amenities

Start at the top. Thirty-five floors up, the Sky Lounge opens across a 180-degree panorama of Manchester: the Pennines to the east, the city spreading in every direction below. It is a residents-only space and there is nothing comparable available from a private address anywhere in the city. Come down to the fifteenth floor and there is a lounge with two outdoor terraces, a different perspective again, better suited to a weekday morning coffee than a Friday night.

The co-working space is the largest attached to any single residential address in Manchester. It is well-equipped, well-used, and one of the reasons people who rent here do not tend to leave.

Beyond that: a Les Mills gymnasium, a bookable private dining room you can actually take people to, a residents events programme that runs throughout the year, and a concierge and building management team on site. The building is managed by Vita Group, who have been here since the beginning. It shows.

The Location

Circle Square sits at the heart of the Oxford Road Corridor, directly adjacent to Symphony Park and its new public gardens. The universities are on the doorstep. The Manchester Royal Infirmary, the growing life sciences and technology quarter, the independent restaurants and bars of the Corridor: all of it within a few minutes on foot. Manchester Piccadilly is a short walk north, the Northern Quarter just beyond it. The city does not ask much of you here in terms of effort. Everything is simply nearby.

The Longer View

Manchester's rental market has grown by 46% over the past five years, and the city keeps drawing people in: 120,000 students a year, 51% of graduates who stay after they finish, a professional community that is growing faster than almost anywhere else in the country. Circle Square is where a significant number of them choose to live, and it is easy to understand why. The building has a feel that most new developments spend years trying to create: a genuine community, regular events, people who know their neighbours, a management team that treats the building as something worth looking after. It is not something that arrives fully formed; Vita Group have built it here over five years, and it is still very much intact. This is a place to settle into.

Useful Information

Tenure: Leasehold, 999 years from 2021.

Ground rent: Peppercorn.

Service charge: £5.60 per sq ft per year, inclusive of building insurance and estate management (approximately £4,010 per year for this apartment).

Council tax: Ask agent. EPC: Ask agent.

Parking: Spaces available to hire a few hundred metres away; ask agent for details.

Services

Electricity: Mains.

Heating: Electric panel heating.

Water and drainage: Mains.

Mobile coverage: EE, O2, Three and Vodafone all provide good outdoor and in-home coverage at this address. Source: Ofcom.