Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 13,499 sales registered with HM Land Registry in M32 (Manchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
M32 is the postcode district covering Stretford in Manchester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where M32 sits
Click the map to open M32 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£295,000median sold price, 2026
+26%five-year change (cash)
289sales in the last 12 months
5.5%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in M32 sells for
The 2026 median in M32 is £295,000, from 77 registered sales; the mean, £314,400, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so M32 trades 8% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical M32 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£295,000
£295,000
77
2025
£285,000
£285,000
363
2024
£283,000
£293,860
343
2023
£265,000
£284,370
378
2022
£252,000
£288,598
443
2021
£235,000
£290,591
604
2020
£230,000
£291,460
379
2019
£210,000
£268,831
431
2018
£205,000
£266,887
453
2017
£184,500
£245,763
442
2016
£172,600
£235,830
416
2015
£158,000
£218,040
477
2014
£146,000
£202,289
438
2013
£133,800
£188,029
334
2012
£128,200
£184,288
302
2011
£124,000
£182,821
269
2010
£130,000
£199,112
263
2009
£126,000
£197,816
271
2008
£137,000
£219,327
249
2007
£146,000
£241,873
600
2006
£135,000
£228,870
577
2005
£128,500
£223,338
427
2004
£125,000
£221,722
703
2003
£97,800
£175,963
642
2002
£82,500
£151,598
589
2001
£66,200
£124,294
494
2000
£55,000
£105,417
527
1999
£50,000
£97,320
497
1998
£47,500
£93,643
407
1997
£45,000
£90,131
400
1996
£45,000
£92,687
365
1995
£44,000
£93,415
339
In cash terms the typical M32 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 216%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+3.5%
+3.5%
5 years (since 2021)
+4.7%
+0.3%
10 years (since 2016)
+5.5%
+2.3%
20 years (since 2006)
+4.0%
+1.3%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 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 289 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 321 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 homes rent for around M32
M32 falls under Trafford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,362 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £938 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,098, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Trafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £295,000 median sold price, £1,362 a month is £16,344 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
Will M32 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
M32 ranks 13 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside M32, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.