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Denton market report M34 5, Manchester
The standing M34 5 (Denton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,506 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in M34 5 (Manchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in M34 5 (Manchester) sold for £220,000 in 2026, the median of 38 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £234,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,506 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
M34 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside M34 (Manchester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where M34 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 buyers actually paid in M34 5
Take the 38 registered 2026 sales in M34 5 and the middle price, the median, is £220,000. The mean lands at £234,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in M34 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in M34 5 costs about £2,880 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, M34 5 sits 23% below the national market.
The price of a typical M34 5 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 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 179 |
| 2024 | £227,000 | £241,348 | 166 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 159 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 179 |
| 2021 | £196,500 | £248,794 | 270 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 181 |
| 2019 | £178,500 | £233,971 | 272 |
| 2018 | £197,000 | £262,605 | 275 |
| 2017 | £176,000 | £240,046 | 293 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 249 |
| 2015 | £134,000 | £189,342 | 205 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 200 |
| 2013 | £126,800 | £182,453 | 190 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 172 |
| 2011 | £143,000 | £215,875 | 179 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 156 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 92 |
| 2008 | £119,000 | £195,066 | 127 |
| 2007 | £127,000 | £215,427 | 231 |
| 2006 | £123,000 | £213,512 | 248 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 163 |
| 2004 | £91,000 | £165,274 | 254 |
| 2003 | £77,200 | £142,221 | 288 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 246 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 249 |
| 2000 | £49,500 | £97,144 | 248 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 189 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 193 |
| 1997 | £45,700 | £93,721 | 246 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 192 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 177 |
In cash terms the typical M34 5 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 153%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the M34 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 2003 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−16.1%). 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) | −12.0% | −14.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
M34 5 recorded 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 144 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.
What tenants pay around M34 5
The local authority for M34 5 is Tameside, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £920 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £677 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,389 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Tameside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £220,000 median purchase price, a rent of £920 a month (£11,040 a year) works out at a 5.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How M34 5 trades
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes M34 5 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.
Asked and answered: M34 5 (Denton)
How much did a house sell for in M34 5 (Denton)?
Are property prices falling in M34 5 (Denton)?
Is M34 5 (Denton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do M34 5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
M34's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 125 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole M34 district, not just M34 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ashbourne Road, Denton, Tameside
- Boothdale Drive, Audenshaw, M34, Audenshaw
- Boothdale Drive, Audenshaw, Mancheste...
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 M34 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
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%) | — |
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 M34
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of M34, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| M34 2 | £241,500 | 42 |
| M34 3 | £185,000 | 55 |
| M34 6 | £222,500 | 24 |
| M34 7 | £200,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full M34 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how M34 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in M34 5: 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 M34 5'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 M34 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to M34 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual M34 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.