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Didsbury market report M20 1, Manchester
The M20 1 (Didsbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,373 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M20 1 (Manchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in M20 1 (Manchester) came in at £365,800, out of 40 registered, up 25% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £394,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,020 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,373 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like M20 1 is a single group of streets within M20 (Manchester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where M20 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in M20 1
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) M20 1 home went for £365,800. The mean is £394,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in M20 1
By floor space, homes in M20 1 have sold for about £4,020 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so M20 1 trades 28% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical M20 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £365,800 | £365,800 | 40 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 98 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 69 |
| 2023 | £289,800 | £318,419 | 80 |
| 2022 | £312,500 | £366,442 | 81 |
| 2021 | £293,000 | £370,976 | 142 |
| 2020 | £243,000 | £315,298 | 81 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 127 |
| 2018 | £294,500 | £392,574 | 136 |
| 2017 | £208,800 | £284,782 | 102 |
| 2016 | £183,000 | £256,019 | 123 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 107 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 120 |
| 2013 | £142,500 | £205,043 | 118 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 118 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 71 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 73 |
| 2009 | £191,800 | £308,320 | 70 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 69 |
| 2007 | £154,200 | £261,566 | 126 |
| 2006 | £162,000 | £281,211 | 185 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 138 |
| 2004 | £125,500 | £227,933 | 160 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 136 |
| 2002 | £87,000 | £163,690 | 113 |
| 2001 | £79,800 | £153,411 | 136 |
| 2000 | £74,000 | £145,225 | 104 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 109 |
| 1998 | £58,300 | £117,683 | 124 |
| 1997 | £57,500 | £117,921 | 106 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 75 |
| 1995 | £55,800 | £121,301 | 36 |
In cash terms the typical M20 1 home went from £55,800 in 1995 to £365,800 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 202%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M20 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2018 (+41.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−37.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.6% | +5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.2% | +3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in M20 1
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
M20 1 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 137 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How M20 1 trades
This is a thin market: 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What tenants pay around M20 1
The local authority for M20 1 is Manchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,352 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £989 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,989, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Manchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £365,800 median sold price, £1,352 a month is £16,224 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about M20 1 (Didsbury)
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Searches that land here, answered
People ask what is the average house price increase in west didsbury since 2020
. From the register: £243,000 in 2020 against £365,800 in 2026, which is a rise of 51% in cash (up 16% after inflation).
Searches like rental valuation didsbury
reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £365,800 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
m20 commercial property price per square foot
is a question the floor-area data can answer: about £4,020 per square metre averaged over five years of sales, call it £373 per square foot. Note it describes homes, not commercial stock, which mostly sits outside the Price Paid record.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Where do M20 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
M20's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 230 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M20 district, not just M20 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Whitchurch Road, Manchester, Greater ...
- Old Moat Lane, Manchester, Greater Ma...
- Tintern Avenue, West Didsbury
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every M20 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in M
What homes of each size actually sold for across the M area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £282,000 | £395,000 (+40%) | £625,000 (+58%) | £810,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | £240,000 (+20%) | £310,000 (+29%) | £450,000 (+45%) | £635,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £181,725 | £199,300 (+10%) | £246,000 (+23%) | £350,000 (+42%) | £455,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £160,000 | £233,000 (+46%) | £330,000 (+42%) | £590,000 (+79%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the M area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the M area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in M20
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of M20, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M20 2 | £345,000 | 93 |
| M20 3 | £292,500 | 38 |
| M20 4 | £300,000 | 35 |
| M20 5 | £471,000 | 32 |
| M20 6 | £372,500 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full M20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M20 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in M20 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M20 1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim M20 1.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to M20 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M20 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.