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Chorleywood market report WD3 8, Rickmansworth
The standing WD3 8 (Chorleywood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,679 registered sales in WD3 8 (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.
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 WD3 8 (Rickmansworth) sold for £500,000 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £491,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,950 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,679 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WD3 8 is a single group of streets within WD3 (Rickmansworth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WD3 8 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 a home in WD3 8 sells for
Across 31 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD3 8 home went for £500,000. The mean is £491,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in WD3 8
By floor space, homes in WD3 8 have sold for about £5,950 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WD3 8 sits 75% above the national market.
A typical WD3 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £468,800 | £480,010 | 78 |
| 2024 | £476,000 | £506,086 | 69 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 56 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 73 |
| 2021 | £451,500 | £571,657 | 122 |
| 2020 | £475,000 | £616,322 | 71 |
| 2019 | £435,000 | £570,181 | 76 |
| 2018 | £442,500 | £589,861 | 79 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 79 |
| 2016 | £405,000 | £566,599 | 85 |
| 2015 | £360,000 | £508,680 | 115 |
| 2014 | £315,000 | £446,883 | 119 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 79 |
| 2012 | £260,000 | £382,688 | 85 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 79 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 77 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 98 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 76 |
| 2007 | £258,800 | £438,997 | 176 |
| 2006 | £234,000 | £406,194 | 152 |
| 2005 | £217,000 | £386,173 | 110 |
| 2004 | £230,000 | £417,725 | 149 |
| 2003 | £196,500 | £362,001 | 134 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 177 |
| 2001 | £152,200 | £292,597 | 146 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 116 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 236 |
| 1998 | £107,100 | £216,189 | 162 |
| 1997 | £92,400 | £189,494 | 196 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 219 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical WD3 8 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 188%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD3 8 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 (+20.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−5.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD3 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in WD3 8
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 31 sales completed in WD3 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 145 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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 shape of the WD3 8 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the WD3 district median, WD3 8 sits 17% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of WD3 8
The local authority for WD3 8 is Three Rivers, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,809 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,809 a month is £21,708 a year, which against the £500,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
WD3 8 (Chorleywood): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WD3 8 (Chorleywood)?
Are property prices falling in WD3 8 (Chorleywood)?
Is WD3 8 (Chorleywood) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WD3 8 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: WD prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the WD area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WD area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £420,000 | 25 |
| 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 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 a home in WD3 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD3 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD3 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD3 8 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 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD3 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD3 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WD3 8 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.
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.