GALLERY | Inside One Port Street – Select Property’s ‘flagship’ investment
Standing 32 storeys tall and representing a £195m investment, One Port Street is now gearing up to welcome residents in February 2026, with all but five of its 477 apartments sold.
Conceived by Select Property, designed by SimpsonHaugh Architects, and built by Renaker, the three blocks will offer luxury living with open-plan apartments and a plethora of amenities – one-bedroom flats start at around £300,000.
One Port Street is touted as Select Property’s “flagship investment” and its development comes hand-in-hand with its Prestige Collection brand, through which the flats were marketed.
Select Property also owns Affinity Living.. This scheme is targeted at a much higher market.
Nik Bremner, director of Select Residential, said: “We like to segment our brand to cater for different markets. When we came up with the One Port Street concept and this kind of location, we thought it would be better served by being designated towards a slightly higher end of the market.”
Facilities
Residents and visitors will enter into a public reception and 24/7 concierge, supported by two retail commercial offers. Co-working spaces and the bookable Hideout will also be installed.
This area will centre around a feature open fire pit, which Select Property expects will “immediately inform residents that they are in a high-end building”.
Amenities are not in short supply. A “David Lloyd-quality” gym with bookable personal training rooms and southern facing views, and a 2,000 sq ft basement swimming pool and leisure suite – lit by a huge skylight – will be fully available to those living within the building.
Select Property has plans for various events and commercial offers across the blocks, with communal spaces made easily adaptable for both meetings and food or drink service.
The Port Street tower is one of several schemes coming forward in the area. Credit: via planning documents
Residential
One Port Street offers 477 one- and two-bed flats, most with a starting price of around £300,000. It is 98% sold out.
The development will seek to take advantage of the influx of government workers expected when the Manchester Digital Campus opens, offering high-end living.
Outdoor Space
A half-acre of public realm, accessible to all and offering a children’s play area, features on the site’s southern side, creating a through route towards Ancoats.
The urban garden is the resident-only outdoor area encompassed by the development’s three blocks, offering a private and quieter external space surrounded by trees and planting
Sitting adjacent to the garden, a covered and furnished lounge area known as the Atrium will allow residents to hide from the Manchester rain, while still being in an external space.
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- The view from the seventh floor private terrace. Credit: PNW
- A view of the starting one-bedroom offer. Credit: PNW
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- The basement pool room will be lit by a skylight. Credit: PNW
- A view of the starting one-bedroom offer. Credit: PNW
- A view of the starting one-bedroom offer. Credit: PNW
- A view of the starting one-bedroom offer. Credit: PNW
- One of the beds in the two-bedroom corner flat offer. Credit: PNW
- The living space in the two-bedroom corner flat offer. Credit: PNW
- A view of the starting one-bedroom offer. Credit: PNW
- The emerging 7th floor resident's lounge. Credit: PNW
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- The Gym. Credit: via SH Comms
- Reception, with an open fire pit. Credit: via SH Comms
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- The 7th floor lounge. Credit: via SH Comms
- The terrace. Credit: via SH Comms
- The atrium will act as a covered lounge overlooking the private garden. Credit: via SH Comms
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More room in a doll’s house – whilst it’s a nice development the size of those rooms is shocking (and that’s before there’s any belongings in there).
By Anonymous
They will lose a lot of money on this
By Anonymous
Still tens of them showing for sale on Rightmove.
By J
I’d be really interested in seeing the breakdown of purchasers and what country they’re from or whether they’ve been bought to let etc…..you hear so much of this “All those apartments are sold to wealthy foreigners as investments” etc….It’d be interesting to find out the mix, personally I love this development and as a Londoner I can assure you those rooms aren’t tiny as some think. They look pretty average to me 😅
By Cristoforo
there has to be a point where they can’t get away with building these eyesores for profit. The look of this tower is horrendous, it’s so oppresive, it dominates Ancoats now. Look at how beautiful buildings used to be, especially in Manchester but then we’ve come to this point where these atrocious looking buildings marketed as ‘luxury living’ pop up everywhere. I don’t know how something so ugly be luxurious,there should be some sort of design code that respects its surroundings and just adds to the visual interest of the city rather than spoiling it.
By Mike
Looks high quality but way too small. Not a place you would want to live in long term but guess that’s the demographic now.
By Anonymous
98% sold, but to who? No doubt a disproportionate number of BTL landlords who could not point to Manchester, let alone Port St, on a map.
By Bewildered Mancunian
£300k+ and you don’t even got enough space to put a chest of drawers at the foot of the bed! World’s gone mad.
By Anonymous
Are those doors in-between the windows? What are they for, if the building has no balconies?
By Anonymous
Wither the annual service charge? ‘High -end’ needs paying for. How did Manchester arrive at this nonsense?
By Anonymous
All this talk of “who can afford these”. Manchester’s average salary is now £38k per year – you’re all living in the past if you think Manchester is still a poor city.
By Anonymous
This building looks truly grotesque from the outside. When will Manchester council learn that if it looks insipid on computer, it’ll look ten times worse in real life. You only need look up the road at Oxygen. Vomit inducing.
By Tom