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Stretford market report M32 8, Manchester
The M32 8 (Stretford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,344 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M32 8 (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 2026 median for M32 8 (Manchester) is £330,000, from 39 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £365,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,400 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,344 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like M32 8 is a single group of streets within M32 (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 M32 8 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.
M32 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 39 registered 2026 sales in M32 8 and the middle price, the median, is £330,000. The mean lands at £365,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in M32 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in M32 8 costs about £3,400 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, M32 8 runs 16% above it.
A typical M32 8 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £350,200 | £358,574 | 74 |
| 2024 | £344,000 | £365,743 | 81 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 82 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 77 |
| 2021 | £294,500 | £372,875 | 110 |
| 2020 | £252,500 | £327,624 | 80 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 89 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 81 |
| 2017 | £214,200 | £292,147 | 104 |
| 2016 | £184,900 | £258,677 | 116 |
| 2015 | £192,500 | £272,003 | 124 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 113 |
| 2013 | £141,800 | £204,036 | 86 |
| 2012 | £160,500 | £236,236 | 78 |
| 2011 | £144,000 | £217,385 | 82 |
| 2010 | £149,000 | £233,670 | 71 |
| 2009 | £148,000 | £237,911 | 56 |
| 2008 | £153,500 | £251,619 | 60 |
| 2007 | £157,200 | £266,655 | 170 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 142 |
| 2005 | £136,500 | £242,915 | 124 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 160 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 163 |
| 2002 | £86,000 | £161,808 | 150 |
| 2001 | £72,800 | £139,954 | 136 |
| 2000 | £63,200 | £124,030 | 147 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 139 |
| 1998 | £47,200 | £95,277 | 112 |
| 1997 | £50,700 | £103,975 | 118 |
| 1996 | £46,200 | £97,434 | 95 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical M32 8 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 245%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M32 8 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 (+23.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−11.7%). 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) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.0% | +2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
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.
The register shows 39 M32 8 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 149 sales a year before the financial crisis and 71 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.
The rental side of M32 8
For renting purposes M32 8 sits in Trafford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,362 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £938 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,098 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Trafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, which against the £330,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
Reading the M32 8 market
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes M32 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 M32, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on M32 8 (Stretford)
Is M32 8 (Stretford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M32 8 (Stretford)?
Are property prices falling in M32 8 (Stretford)?
Are M32 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in M32 now
Turning to what is actually available: 21 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M32 district, not just M32 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% 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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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 M32 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
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, M area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in M32
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of M32, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M32 0 | £275,000 | 44 |
| M32 9 | £292,000 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full M32 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M32 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in M32 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M32 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working M32 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim M32 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with M32 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every M32 8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.