Location
Within walking distance to major Manchester universities, global employers and transport links, Vita Living Circle Square North occupies one of the city’s most high-demand locations.
Manchester is home to 80 of the FTSE 100 companies, underpinning a thriving and rapidly expanding job market driven by major national and international employers.
Circle Square also forms part of a thriving neighbourhood in its own right. A vibrant destination defined by independent restaurants, bars, cafés, offices, gyms, and fitness studios, it’s a true community within the city.
MAJOR BRANDS AT CIRCLE SQUARE
Circle Square is home to major global brands, with international brand, Puma, recently announcing their upcoming relocation to the district.
Major international blue-chip employers choose Circle Square as their base to place themselves on the doorstep of Manchester’s world-leading academic institutions and top creative talent, presenting an ideal home for young professionals.
Circle Square is a £750m, 2.25 million sq ft neighbourhood built on the former BBC Broadcasting House site by Bruntwood SciTech and Vita Group, with more than 1,700 homes and 1.2 million sq ft of workspace. Auto Trader, Havas and the Information Commissioner’s Office all have offices inside the scheme.
For an owner letting an apartment that is the point: the people who will rent it can walk to work without leaving the neighbourhood.
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A HIGHER EDUCATION HUB
Manchester is a university powerhouse, home to five top educational institutes including Russell Group, The University of Manchester.
With one of the largest student populations in Europe, Manchester boasts a 51% graduate retention rate. This growing talent pool of young professionals makes Circle Square a desirable home for people working and living in the city.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Sister will become a vibrant new £1.7 billion city-centre district, with an ambition to establish Manchester as a world leader in technology and innovation.
Once home to the historic University of Manchester’s Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Sister is steeped in a rich history of science and engineering. A joint venture between The University of Manchester and Bruntwood SciTech, this major regeneration scheme is one of several significant regeneration projects taking place in the city.
THE OXFORD ROAD CORRIDOR
Circle Square sits on the Oxford Road Corridor, the mile-long innovation district running south from the city centre past both universities and the teaching hospital campus. The Corridor hosts more than 104,000 employees and more than 86,000 students, of whom over 22,000 are international and more than 42,000 study STEM subjects. It accounts for 48% of Manchester’s life sciences businesses and draws 4.7 million visitors a year. Figures published by oxfordroadcorridor.com, as at 2026.
Two universities, a teaching hospital and a life sciences cluster on a single spine is the demand side of a city centre tenancy. It is why apartments here let to working professionals and postgraduates rather than to one seasonal student market.
A COMPLETED BUILDING, NOT A PLOT
Vita Living Circle Square North is already built. It has been operated for the last four years as an institutional grade rental development by Vita Group and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, and Select Property is bringing it to individual buyers for the first time. You are buying into a location that is finished and occupied rather than a masterplan. That matters for a buyer purchasing from overseas: the rental demand for this exact stock has already been tested inside the same building, rather than projected from comparable schemes elsewhere in the city.
Sister Masterplan at Circle Square Manchester
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