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Chorleywood market report WD3 5, Rickmansworth
The standing WD3 5 (Chorleywood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,433 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD3 5 (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: a typical WD3 5 (Rickmansworth) home changed hands for £650,000 in 2026 (median of 27 registered sales, down 22% on five years earlier), with the mean at £690,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,433 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WD3 5 is one sector of WD3 (Rickmansworth): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WD3 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 WD3 5
The 2026 median for WD3 5 is £650,000, taken from 27 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £690,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WD3 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WD3 5 sales average about £6,900 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD3 5 128% above the national figure.
The price of a typical WD3 5 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £650,000 | £650,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £830,000 | £849,848 | 111 |
| 2024 | £855,000 | £909,041 | 100 |
| 2023 | £892,500 | £980,640 | 106 |
| 2022 | £925,000 | £1,084,668 | 120 |
| 2021 | £830,000 | £1,050,887 | 143 |
| 2020 | £711,200 | £922,797 | 90 |
| 2019 | £721,000 | £945,058 | 114 |
| 2018 | £742,500 | £989,767 | 116 |
| 2017 | £775,000 | £1,057,022 | 101 |
| 2016 | £703,800 | £984,623 | 118 |
| 2015 | £613,000 | £866,169 | 154 |
| 2014 | £552,000 | £783,108 | 129 |
| 2013 | £512,000 | £736,717 | 138 |
| 2012 | £600,000 | £883,125 | 130 |
| 2011 | £427,500 | £645,361 | 122 |
| 2010 | £475,000 | £744,922 | 135 |
| 2009 | £433,800 | £697,337 | 114 |
| 2008 | £435,000 | £713,057 | 91 |
| 2007 | £450,000 | £763,325 | 194 |
| 2006 | £387,500 | £672,650 | 179 |
| 2005 | £410,000 | £729,635 | 163 |
| 2004 | £413,800 | £751,542 | 144 |
| 2003 | £370,000 | £681,630 | 147 |
| 2002 | £329,000 | £619,011 | 224 |
| 2001 | £283,200 | £544,438 | 154 |
| 2000 | £255,000 | £500,438 | 153 |
| 1999 | £197,000 | £392,611 | 165 |
| 1998 | £171,200 | £345,579 | 228 |
| 1997 | £168,500 | £345,560 | 219 |
| 1996 | £139,000 | £293,145 | 175 |
| 1995 | £143,000 | £310,860 | 129 |
In cash terms the typical WD3 5 home went from £143,000 in 1995 to £650,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 109%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 40% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WD3 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 2012 (+40.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−21.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −21.7% | −23.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.8% | −9.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.8% | −4.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 27 WD3 5 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 170 sales a year before the financial crisis and 93 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around WD3 5
For renting purposes WD3 5 sits in Three Rivers. The ONS average private rent there is £1,809 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £650,000 median sold price, £1,809 a month is £21,708 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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 WD3 5 trades
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD3 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. Within WD3, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: WD3 5 (Chorleywood)
Is WD3 5 (Chorleywood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD3 5 (Chorleywood)?
Are property prices falling in WD3 5 (Chorleywood)?
Will WD3 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 38% 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.
What is for sale in WD3 right 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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WD3 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.
What another bedroom costs in WD
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WD area. 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WD3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WD3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD3 1 | £420,000 | 25 |
| WD3 3 | £630,000 | 61 |
| WD3 4 | £1,200,000 | 11 |
| 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.
Selling in WD3 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD3 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD3 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD3 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WD3 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD3 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD3 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WD3 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.
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.