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Didsbury market report M20 3, Manchester
The standing M20 3 (Didsbury) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,904 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in M20 3 (Manchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical M20 3 (Manchester) home changed hands for £292,500 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £326,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,890 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,904 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
M20 3 is one sector of M20 (Manchester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where M20 3 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 3 sells for
The 2026 median for M20 3 is £292,500, taken from 38 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £326,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in M20 3
Per square metre, M20 3 homes have averaged around £3,890 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, M20 3 sits 3% above the national market.
A typical M20 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £292,500 | £292,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 103 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 93 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 59 |
| 2022 | £257,000 | £301,362 | 95 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 100 |
| 2020 | £260,500 | £338,004 | 86 |
| 2019 | £228,000 | £298,853 | 112 |
| 2018 | £221,200 | £294,864 | 109 |
| 2017 | £228,000 | £310,969 | 107 |
| 2016 | £171,000 | £239,231 | 102 |
| 2015 | £195,000 | £275,535 | 119 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 132 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 80 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 81 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 91 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 90 |
| 2009 | £172,500 | £277,295 | 59 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 69 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 176 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 168 |
| 2005 | £156,200 | £277,973 | 156 |
| 2004 | £147,600 | £268,070 | 192 |
| 2003 | £132,500 | £244,097 | 227 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 222 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 178 |
| 2000 | £97,500 | £191,344 | 172 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 171 |
| 1998 | £65,200 | £131,611 | 136 |
| 1997 | £63,200 | £129,610 | 154 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 136 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 91 |
In cash terms the typical M20 3 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £292,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 114%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M20 3 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 2017 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−14.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What M20 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in M20 3
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
M20 3 recorded 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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.
The shape of the M20 3 market
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes M20 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the M20 district median, M20 3 sits 19% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around M20 3
M20 3 falls under Manchester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,352 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £989 a month here against £1,989 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Manchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,352 a month is £16,224 a year, which against the £292,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: M20 3 (Didsbury)
How much did a house sell for in M20 3 (Didsbury)?
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Searches that land here, answered
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: £260,500 in 2020 against £292,500 in 2026, which is a rise of 12% in cash (down 13% after inflation).
what is the price per square foot for commercial property in m20
is a question the floor-area data can answer: about £3,890 per square metre averaged over five years of sales, call it £361 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 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
M20's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 230 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M20 district, not just M20 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Whitchurch Road, Manchester, Greater ...
- Old Moat Lane, Manchester, Greater Ma...
- Tintern Avenue, West Didsbury
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every M20 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in M
Real sold prices by size across the M area, straight 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the M area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, M area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in M20
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of M20, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M20 1 | £365,800 | 40 |
| M20 2 | £345,000 | 93 |
| 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.
Before you sell in M20 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in M20 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the M20 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded M20 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim M20 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to M20 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual M20 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.