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Didsbury market report M20 4, Manchester
The standing M20 4 (Didsbury) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,483 registered sales in M20 4 (Manchester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in M20 4 (Manchester) came in at £312,500, out of 42 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £325,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,710 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,483 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 4 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 4 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 4 sells for
Across 42 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) M20 4 home went for £312,500. The mean is £325,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in M20 4
Per square metre, M20 4 homes have averaged around £3,710 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so M20 4 trades 10% above the country as a whole.
M20 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £312,500 | £312,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £333,600 | £341,577 | 110 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 85 |
| 2023 | £326,200 | £358,414 | 102 |
| 2022 | £313,400 | £367,497 | 126 |
| 2021 | £268,200 | £339,576 | 174 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 110 |
| 2019 | £243,000 | £318,515 | 115 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 124 |
| 2017 | £228,000 | £310,969 | 133 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 132 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 131 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 155 |
| 2013 | £169,000 | £243,174 | 107 |
| 2012 | £167,500 | £246,539 | 102 |
| 2011 | £173,500 | £261,918 | 102 |
| 2010 | £165,200 | £259,076 | 94 |
| 2009 | £161,000 | £258,809 | 84 |
| 2008 | £179,000 | £293,419 | 107 |
| 2007 | £194,000 | £329,078 | 174 |
| 2006 | £184,900 | £320,963 | 218 |
| 2005 | £160,500 | £285,625 | 182 |
| 2004 | £162,000 | £294,224 | 221 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 211 |
| 2002 | £111,700 | £210,163 | 242 |
| 2001 | £90,200 | £173,405 | 217 |
| 2000 | £83,000 | £162,888 | 151 |
| 1999 | £71,500 | £142,496 | 211 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 153 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 138 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 111 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 119 |
In cash terms the typical M20 4 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £312,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 161%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M20 4 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 2004 (+24.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What M20 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −6.3% | −8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.8% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in M20 4
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.
The register shows 42 M20 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 202 sales a year before the financial crisis and 93 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around M20 4
M20 4 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.
Set against the £312,500 median sold price, £1,352 a month is £16,224 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
How M20 4 trades
This is a thin market: 42 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. Against the M20 district median, M20 4 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: M20 4 (Didsbury)
Is M20 4 (Didsbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M20 4 (Didsbury)?
Are property prices falling in M20 4 (Didsbury)?
What happens to M20 4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
M20's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 2 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M20 district, not just M20 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in M
What homes of each size actually sold for across the M area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £240,000 | £277,250 (+16%) | £337,500 (+22%) | £416,000 (+23%) | £574,995 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £193,000 | £225,000 (+17%) | £272,000 (+21%) | £355,000 (+31%) | £500,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £180,000 | £190,000 (+6%) | £220,350 (+16%) | £262,000 (+19%) | £352,400 (+35%) |
| Flat | £155,000 | £177,500 (+15%) | £250,000 (+41%) | £295,750 (+18%) | £380,000 (+28%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 | 44 |
| M20 2 | £345,000 | 109 |
| M20 3 | £300,000 | 43 |
| M20 5 | £480,000 | 37 |
| M20 6 | £385,200 | 54 |
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 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in M20 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from M20 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded M20 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M20 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M20 4 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.