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Chorleywood market report WD3 3, Rickmansworth
The standing WD3 3 (Chorleywood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,952 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD3 3 (Rickmansworth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WD3 3 (Rickmansworth) is £630,000, from 61 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £619,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,540 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,952 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WD3 3 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 3 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 WD3 3 homes really sell for
In the WD3 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £630,000, from 61 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £619,500, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in WD3 3
A square metre of WD3 3 home has cost about £6,540 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WD3 3 121% above the country at large.
The price of a typical WD3 3 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 | £630,000 | £630,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £650,000 | £665,543 | 195 |
| 2024 | £633,000 | £673,009 | 176 |
| 2023 | £640,000 | £703,204 | 128 |
| 2022 | £645,000 | £756,336 | 147 |
| 2021 | £577,500 | £731,190 | 167 |
| 2020 | £545,000 | £707,149 | 132 |
| 2019 | £545,000 | £714,365 | 167 |
| 2018 | £521,000 | £694,503 | 143 |
| 2017 | £550,000 | £750,145 | 160 |
| 2016 | £520,000 | £727,485 | 147 |
| 2015 | £470,000 | £664,110 | 180 |
| 2014 | £420,800 | £596,978 | 174 |
| 2013 | £380,000 | £546,782 | 217 |
| 2012 | £370,000 | £544,594 | 220 |
| 2011 | £345,000 | £520,817 | 213 |
| 2010 | £332,000 | £520,661 | 191 |
| 2009 | £277,000 | £445,280 | 138 |
| 2008 | £317,500 | £520,450 | 102 |
| 2007 | £319,000 | £541,113 | 237 |
| 2006 | £280,000 | £486,044 | 268 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 187 |
| 2004 | £263,000 | £477,659 | 207 |
| 2003 | £242,500 | £446,744 | 207 |
| 2002 | £209,500 | £394,172 | 258 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 250 |
| 2000 | £162,200 | £318,318 | 206 |
| 1999 | £134,000 | £267,055 | 241 |
| 1998 | £124,800 | £251,918 | 192 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 269 |
| 1996 | £95,000 | £200,351 | 219 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 153 |
In cash terms the typical WD3 3 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £630,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 229%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD3 3 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 2000 (+21.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD3 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 61 sales completed in WD3 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 228 sales a year before the financial crisis and 141 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 3
The local authority for WD3 3 is Three Rivers, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,809 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,263 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,756 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Three Rivers
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £630,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,809 a month (£21,708 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
WD3 3 (Chorleywood): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WD3 3 (Chorleywood)?
Are property prices falling in WD3 3 (Chorleywood)?
Is WD3 3 (Chorleywood) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WD3 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
What you could buy in WD3 now
Turning to what is actually available: 171 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD3 district, not just WD3 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WD
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WD 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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
The spread across the WD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WD area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WD3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD3 1 | £420,000 | 25 |
| 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 3: 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 WD3 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WD3 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD3 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WD3 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.