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Didsbury market report M20, Manchester
The house prices in M20 (Didsbury): the full public record, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 28,331 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M20 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in M20 (Manchester) sold for £360,000 in 2026, the median of 280 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £397,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,170 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 28,331 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
M20 is a postcode district covering Didsbury, Withington in Manchester. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where M20 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
The 2026 median for M20 is £360,000, taken from 280 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £397,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in M20
A square metre of M20 home has cost about £4,170 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts M20 26% above the country at large.
A typical M20 home, priced year by year (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 | £360,000 | £360,000 | 280 |
| 2025 | £347,000 | £355,298 | 727 |
| 2024 | £325,300 | £345,861 | 590 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 608 |
| 2022 | £327,100 | £383,562 | 770 |
| 2021 | £308,000 | £389,968 | 953 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 708 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 798 |
| 2018 | £277,800 | £370,313 | 832 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 879 |
| 2016 | £224,000 | £313,378 | 864 |
| 2015 | £217,500 | £307,328 | 896 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 965 |
| 2013 | £185,500 | £266,916 | 767 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 738 |
| 2011 | £193,800 | £292,563 | 757 |
| 2010 | £195,500 | £306,594 | 813 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 624 |
| 2008 | £197,000 | £322,925 | 567 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 1,065 |
| 2006 | £194,400 | £337,454 | 1,366 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 1,237 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 1,242 |
| 2003 | £142,500 | £262,520 | 1,234 |
| 2002 | £128,000 | £240,831 | 1,386 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 1,186 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 995 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 1,087 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 984 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 990 |
| 1996 | £59,800 | £126,116 | 813 |
| 1995 | £59,700 | £129,779 | 610 |
In cash terms the typical M20 home went from £59,700 in 1995 to £360,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 177%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the M20 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 (+22.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−2.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.7% | +1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £517,500 against £247,500 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, M20
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £517,500 | 14 | 1,581 |
| Semi-detached | £442,500 | 102 | 10,208 |
| Terraced | £397,400 | 61 | 6,169 |
| Flats | £247,500 | 103 | 10,373 |
How many homes change hands in M20
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 604 sales completed in M20. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,214 sales a year before the financial crisis and 595 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.
How M20 trades
M20 sits 3 of 42 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
The rental side of M20
The local authority for M20 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.
Set against the £360,000 median sold price, £1,352 a month is £16,224 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
Real searches this page gets asked
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 (Didsbury) median was £295,000 in 2020 and £360,000 in 2026, up 22% in cash and down 6% 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 £4,170 per square metre, which is roughly £387 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.
Common questions on M20 (Didsbury)
Are property prices falling in M20 (Didsbury)?
Is M20 (Didsbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M20 (Didsbury)?
Will M20 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
On the market in M20 today
Everything above is what homes in M20 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 230 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the M20 median sold price.
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.
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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 →
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. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
M20 ranks 24 of 42 in the M area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
M area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside M20, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 5 | £471,000 | 32 |
| M20 6 | £372,500 | 42 |
How M20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the M area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| M21 | £410,000 | +22% |
| M33 | £410,000 | +27% |
| M20 (this report) | £360,000 | +17% |
| M41 | £346,400 | +20% |
| M16 | £314,500 | +37% |
| M7 | £296,000 | +35% |
| M25 | £293,500 | +13% |
| M32 | £290,000 | +21% |
| M28 | £285,000 | +12% |
| M19 | £276,000 | +23% |
| M45 | £275,000 | +24% |
| M23 | £266,000 | +33% |
| M2 | £257,800 | -34% |
| M13 | £250,000 | +2% |
| M14 | £245,000 | +29% |
| M27 | £243,500 | +22% |
| M22 | £242,000 | +26% |
| M35 | £238,000 | +29% |
| M44 | £235,000 | +31% |
| M6 | £232,500 | +16% |
| M29 | £232,500 | +16% |
| M30 | £230,000 | +17% |
| M40 | £230,000 | +38% |
| M43 | £230,000 | +31% |
Before you sell in M20: 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from M20's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded M20 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every M20 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.