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Didsbury market report M20 5, Manchester
The M20 5 (Didsbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,389 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M20 5 (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: a typical M20 5 (Manchester) home changed hands for £471,000 in 2026 (median of 32 registered sales, up 39% on five years earlier), with the mean at £520,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,370 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,389 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like M20 5 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 5 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 M20 5 homes really sell for
Take the 32 registered 2026 sales in M20 5 and the middle price, the median, is £471,000. The mean lands at £520,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in M20 5
The last five years of sales put M20 5 at roughly £4,370 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving M20 5 65% above the national figure.
A typical M20 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £471,000 | £471,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £386,500 | £395,742 | 56 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 56 |
| 2023 | £395,000 | £434,009 | 41 |
| 2022 | £394,000 | £462,010 | 59 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 61 |
| 2020 | £332,500 | £431,426 | 74 |
| 2019 | £299,500 | £392,573 | 68 |
| 2018 | £295,000 | £393,241 | 65 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 75 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 70 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 79 |
| 2014 | £205,500 | £291,538 | 76 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 72 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 57 |
| 2011 | £195,500 | £295,130 | 52 |
| 2010 | £204,000 | £319,925 | 68 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 55 |
| 2008 | £207,500 | £340,136 | 46 |
| 2007 | £202,000 | £342,648 | 103 |
| 2006 | £206,200 | £357,937 | 120 |
| 2005 | £203,000 | £361,258 | 113 |
| 2004 | £189,500 | £344,169 | 86 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 96 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 105 |
| 2001 | £109,200 | £209,931 | 92 |
| 2000 | £94,800 | £186,045 | 88 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 83 |
| 1998 | £71,000 | £143,319 | 77 |
| 1997 | £68,200 | £139,864 | 102 |
| 1996 | £64,700 | £136,449 | 84 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical M20 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £471,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 261%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the M20 5 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 (+30.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +21.9% | +19.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.7% | +1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.0% | +3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in M20 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 100 sales a year before the financial crisis and 49 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.
Reading the M20 5 market
This is a thin market: 32 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within M20, this sector trades 31% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around M20 5
The local authority for M20 5 is Manchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £471,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. 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.
What people ask about M20 5 (Didsbury)
How much did a house sell for in M20 5 (Didsbury)?
Are property prices falling in M20 5 (Didsbury)?
Is M20 5 (Didsbury) a good place to buy a house?
Real searches this page gets asked
These are the recorded searches for the wider M20 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as M20 6BQ. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
One real search that lands here: what are current house prices in m20 and have they increased since 2020
. The record's answer: the M20 5 (Didsbury) median was £332,500 in 2020 and £471,000 in 2026, up 42% in cash and up 9% in today's money.
Another real search: what is the price per square foot for commercial property in m20
. Over the last five years, homes here averaged about £4,370 per square metre, which is roughly £406 per square foot. That covers residential sales only; the Price Paid record this page is built from excludes most commercial property.
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 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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.
Moving up a bedroom in M: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the M area, straight 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 2 | £345,000 | 93 |
| M20 3 | £292,500 | 38 |
| M20 4 | £300,000 | 35 |
| 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 5? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in M20 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from M20 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded M20 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working M20 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim M20 5.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every M20 5 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.