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Stretford market report M32, Manchester
The M32 (Stretford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 12,914 HM Land Registry entries for M32 (Manchester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in M32 (Manchester) came in at £290,000, out of 121 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £1,958,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 12,914 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
M32 is a postcode district covering Stretford 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 M32 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 buyers actually paid in M32
Take the 121 registered 2026 sales in M32 and the middle price, the median, is £290,000. The mean lands at £1,958,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
M32 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in M32 costs about £3,260 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts M32 2% above the country at large.
The price of a typical M32 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 121 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 325 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 286 |
| 2023 | £265,000 | £291,170 | 333 |
| 2022 | £255,000 | £299,017 | 378 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 509 |
| 2020 | £232,500 | £301,674 | 327 |
| 2019 | £215,200 | £282,076 | 352 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 402 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 392 |
| 2016 | £170,100 | £237,972 | 389 |
| 2015 | £159,700 | £225,656 | 444 |
| 2014 | £147,000 | £208,545 | 411 |
| 2013 | £134,000 | £192,813 | 325 |
| 2012 | £128,200 | £188,694 | 302 |
| 2011 | £124,000 | £187,192 | 269 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 263 |
| 2009 | £126,000 | £202,546 | 271 |
| 2008 | £137,000 | £224,572 | 249 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 600 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 577 |
| 2005 | £128,500 | £228,678 | 427 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 703 |
| 2003 | £97,800 | £180,171 | 642 |
| 2002 | £82,500 | £155,223 | 589 |
| 2001 | £66,200 | £127,266 | 494 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 527 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 496 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 407 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 400 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 365 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 339 |
In cash terms the typical M32 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 203%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the M32 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.0%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 48% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £484,500 against £160,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, M32
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 | £484,500 (2025) | – | 569 |
| Semi-detached | £310,000 | 56 | 6,234 |
| Terraced | £282,500 | 44 | 4,550 |
| Flats | £180,500 | 18 | 1,558 |
How many homes change hands in M32
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
M32 recorded 257 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 570 sales a year before the financial crisis and 289 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.
Rents around M32
For renting purposes M32 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 £290,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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 market
M32 sits 8 of 42 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What people ask about M32 (Stretford)
Is M32 (Stretford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in M32 (Stretford)?
Are property prices falling in M32 (Stretford)?
The questions people bring to M32 (Stretford)
These are the recorded searches for the wider M report family, answered with this page's own figures.
People ask average house price increase manchester since 2020
. From the register: £232,500 in 2020 against £290,000 in 2026, which is a rise of 25% in cash (down 4% after inflation).
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.
Will M32 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.
What you could buy in M32 now
Everything above is what homes in M32 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 21 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the M32 median sold price.
14% 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.
- Norwood Road, Stretford
- Burleigh Road, Stretford, Manchester,...
- 1 New Belvedere Close, Manchester, M32 0EG, Manchester
"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 M32 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
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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
M32 ranks 21 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.
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.
Inside M32, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M32 0 | £275,000 | 44 |
| M32 8 | £330,000 | 39 |
| M32 9 | £292,000 | 38 |
How M32 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 | £360,000 | +17% |
| M41 | £346,400 | +20% |
| M16 | £314,500 | +37% |
| M7 | £296,000 | +35% |
| M25 | £293,500 | +13% |
| M32 (this report) | £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 M32: 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'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim M32.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to M32. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual M32 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.