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Didsbury market report M20 2, Manchester
The M20 2 (Didsbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 8,651 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M20 2 (Manchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in M20 2 (Manchester) sold for £345,000 in 2026, the median of 93 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £398,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,350 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,651 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
M20 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside M20 (Manchester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where M20 2 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.
What a home in M20 2 sells for
Across 93 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) M20 2 home went for £345,000. The mean is £398,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in M20 2
By floor space, homes in M20 2 have sold for about £4,350 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, M20 2 sits 21% above the national market.
M20 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 93 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 225 |
| 2024 | £316,800 | £336,823 | 180 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 205 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 266 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 303 |
| 2020 | £327,500 | £424,938 | 242 |
| 2019 | £339,000 | £444,348 | 248 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 254 |
| 2017 | £291,500 | £397,577 | 308 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 278 |
| 2015 | £253,000 | £357,489 | 297 |
| 2014 | £229,600 | £325,728 | 304 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 247 |
| 2012 | £216,000 | £317,925 | 250 |
| 2011 | £208,000 | £314,000 | 310 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 360 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 237 |
| 2008 | £226,000 | £370,462 | 145 |
| 2007 | £246,000 | £417,285 | 295 |
| 2006 | £226,000 | £392,307 | 418 |
| 2005 | £183,100 | £325,844 | 426 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 366 |
| 2003 | £189,500 | £349,105 | 330 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 398 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 309 |
| 2000 | £117,200 | £230,005 | 234 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 256 |
| 1998 | £88,500 | £178,644 | 231 |
| 1997 | £68,700 | £140,890 | 249 |
| 1996 | £67,500 | £142,354 | 241 |
| 1995 | £71,200 | £154,778 | 146 |
In cash terms the typical M20 2 home went from £71,200 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M20 2 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 2003 (+30.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−12.8%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in M20 2
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 2 recorded 93 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 347 sales a year before the financial crisis and 194 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around M20 2
The local authority for M20 2 is Manchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,352 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £989 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,989 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Manchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £345,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,352 a month (£16,224 a year) works out at a 4.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the M20 2 market
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.
Real searches this page gets asked
These are the recorded searches for the wider M20 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, M20 6BQ among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
People ask what are current house prices in m20 and have they increased since 2020
. From the register: £327,500 in 2020 against £345,000 in 2026, which is a rise of 5% in cash (down 19% after inflation).
what is the price per square foot for commercial property in m20
is a question the floor-area data can answer: about £4,350 per square metre averaged over five years of sales, call it £404 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.
M20 2 (Didsbury): the questions that come up
Is M20 2 (Didsbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M20 2 (Didsbury)?
Are property prices falling in M20 2 (Didsbury)?
What happens to M20 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in M20 now
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 2: 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in M: the cost
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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are M20's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M20 1 | £365,800 | 40 |
| 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.
Selling in M20 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in M20 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the M20 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded M20 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim M20 2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about M20 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M20 2 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.