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Droylsden market report M43, Manchester
The M43 (Droylsden) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 11,036 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in M43 (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 2026 median for M43 (Manchester) is £230,000, from 85 registered sales, up 31% on five years earlier; the mean is £242,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,860 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 11,036 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district M43 covering Droylsden sits in Manchester. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where M43 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.
Today's M43 prices, from the sold record
Take the 85 registered 2026 sales in M43 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £242,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in M43
The last five years of sales put M43 at roughly £2,860 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so M43 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
A typical M43 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 85 |
| 2025 | £222,800 | £228,128 | 250 |
| 2024 | £212,700 | £226,144 | 340 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 383 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 405 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 366 |
| 2020 | £152,000 | £197,223 | 264 |
| 2019 | £142,500 | £186,783 | 279 |
| 2018 | £133,500 | £177,958 | 399 |
| 2017 | £133,500 | £182,081 | 353 |
| 2016 | £115,800 | £162,005 | 278 |
| 2015 | £114,000 | £161,082 | 288 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 262 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 185 |
| 2012 | £92,500 | £136,148 | 166 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 188 |
| 2010 | £97,000 | £152,121 | 209 |
| 2009 | £98,500 | £158,340 | 177 |
| 2008 | £112,000 | £183,592 | 245 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 484 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 512 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 297 |
| 2004 | £88,000 | £159,825 | 518 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 618 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 531 |
| 2001 | £46,000 | £88,433 | 514 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 526 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 393 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 404 |
| 1997 | £41,500 | £85,108 | 465 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 346 |
| 1995 | £37,500 | £81,519 | 306 |
In cash terms the typical M43 home went from £37,500 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 182%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the M43 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 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 49% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £318,500 against £125,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, M43
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 | £370,000 | 14 | 1,078 |
| Semi-detached | £233,000 | 43 | 5,437 |
| Terraced | £206,500 | 24 | 4,147 |
| Flats | £125,000 (2025) | – | 358 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.2% | +0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.6% | +0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.1% | +3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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
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 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.
The register shows 191 M43 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 500 sales a year before the financial crisis and 293 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.
The rental side of M43
M43 falls under Tameside, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £920 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £677 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,389, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tameside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £920 a month is £11,040 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
How M43 trades
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Common questions on M43 (Droylsden)
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What people search before landing on M43 (Droylsden)
These are the recorded searches for the wider M report family, answered with this page's own figures.
One real search that lands here: average house price increase manchester since 2020
. The record's answer: the M43 (Droylsden) median was £152,000 in 2020 and £230,000 in 2026, up 51% in cash and up 17% in today's money.
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.
What happens to M43 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 4% 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.
On the market in M43 today
Everything above is what homes in M43 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 15 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 26% above the M43 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 M43 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the M area. 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%) | — |
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
M43 ranks 10 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 M43, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| M43 6 | £220,000 | 35 |
| M43 7 | £249,200 | 50 |
How M43 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 | £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 (this report) | £230,000 | +31% |
Selling a home in M43? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at M43'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 M43.
Take it further
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See every individual M43 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.
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.