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Chorleywood market report WD3 1, Rickmansworth
The WD3 1 (Chorleywood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,401 registered sales in WD3 1 (Rickmansworth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for WD3 1 (Rickmansworth) is £420,000, from 25 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £560,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,330 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,401 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WD3 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WD3 (Rickmansworth). 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 WD3 1 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.
WD3 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 25 registered 2026 sales in WD3 1 and the middle price, the median, is £420,000. The mean lands at £560,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WD3 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WD3 1 costs about £6,330 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 WD3 1 47% above the country at large.
The price of a typical WD3 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £520,000 | £532,435 | 79 |
| 2024 | £495,000 | £526,287 | 67 |
| 2023 | £395,000 | £434,009 | 51 |
| 2022 | £470,000 | £551,129 | 79 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 103 |
| 2020 | £505,000 | £655,248 | 77 |
| 2019 | £405,000 | £530,858 | 133 |
| 2018 | £495,000 | £659,844 | 69 |
| 2017 | £411,000 | £560,563 | 75 |
| 2016 | £316,200 | £442,367 | 144 |
| 2015 | £370,000 | £522,810 | 89 |
| 2014 | £332,500 | £471,709 | 118 |
| 2013 | £289,500 | £416,562 | 99 |
| 2012 | £291,000 | £428,316 | 90 |
| 2011 | £309,400 | £467,075 | 113 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 67 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 69 |
| 2008 | £271,500 | £445,046 | 64 |
| 2007 | £265,000 | £449,514 | 155 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 159 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 107 |
| 2004 | £235,500 | £427,714 | 128 |
| 2003 | £228,200 | £420,400 | 134 |
| 2002 | £192,000 | £361,246 | 143 |
| 2001 | £187,000 | £359,498 | 227 |
| 2000 | £156,500 | £307,131 | 130 |
| 1999 | £139,800 | £278,614 | 170 |
| 1998 | £123,000 | £248,284 | 87 |
| 1997 | £104,000 | £213,283 | 141 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 135 |
| 1995 | £86,500 | £188,038 | 74 |
In cash terms the typical WD3 1 home went from £86,500 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 36% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD3 1 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 2017 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−23.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD3 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −19.2% | −21.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in WD3 1
Sales per year, counted
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.
WD3 1 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 148 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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 tenants pay around WD3 1
For renting purposes WD3 1 sits in Three Rivers. The ONS average private rent there is £1,809 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,263 a month here against £2,756 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Three Rivers
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £420,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,809 a month (£21,708 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
What kind of market WD3 1 is
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD3 1 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 WD3, this sector trades 30% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on WD3 1 (Chorleywood)
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Are WD3 1 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 WD3 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 171 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD3 district, not just WD3 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Hill Rise, Rickmansworth, WD3
- Stag Lane, Chorleywood, WD3, Rickmansworth
- Nightingale Road, Rickmansworth, WD3, Rickmansworth
"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 WD3 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.
What another bedroom costs in WD
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WD area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £570,000 | £809,500 (+42%) | £1,120,000 (+38%) | £1,514,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £412,500 | £497,250 (+21%) | £585,000 (+18%) | £760,000 (+30%) | £975,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £380,000 | £425,000 (+12%) | £507,750 (+19%) | £624,750 (+23%) | £845,000 (+35%) |
| Flat | £250,000 | £355,000 (+42%) | £572,500 (+61%) | £1,000,000 (+75%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WD area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WD3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD3 3 | £630,000 | 61 |
| WD3 4 | £1,200,000 | 11 |
| WD3 5 | £650,000 | 27 |
| WD3 6 | £1,050,000 | 7 |
| WD3 7 | £897,500 | 12 |
| WD3 8 | £500,000 | 31 |
| WD3 9 | £435,000 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full WD3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WD3 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD3 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD3 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD3 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WD3 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD3 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WD3 1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.