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Chorleywood market report WD3, Rickmansworth
The standing WD3 (Chorleywood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 22,824 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WD3 (Rickmansworth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WD3 (Rickmansworth) home changed hands for £600,000 in 2026 (median of 196 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £645,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,450 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 22,824 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WD3 is a postcode district covering Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Croxley Green in Rickmansworth. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WD3 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 WD3 prices, from the sold record
Across 196 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD3 home went for £600,000. The mean is £645,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WD3 prices by floor area
Per square metre, WD3 homes have averaged around £6,450 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WD3 111% above the country at large.
A typical WD3 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £600,000 | £600,000 | 196 |
| 2025 | £652,000 | £667,591 | 596 |
| 2024 | £630,000 | £669,819 | 537 |
| 2023 | £625,000 | £686,722 | 449 |
| 2022 | £669,000 | £784,479 | 563 |
| 2021 | £570,000 | £721,694 | 729 |
| 2020 | £583,500 | £757,103 | 496 |
| 2019 | £535,000 | £701,257 | 618 |
| 2018 | £556,000 | £741,158 | 538 |
| 2017 | £550,000 | £750,145 | 554 |
| 2016 | £500,000 | £699,505 | 642 |
| 2015 | £473,000 | £668,349 | 692 |
| 2014 | £405,500 | £575,273 | 708 |
| 2013 | £385,000 | £553,977 | 723 |
| 2012 | £369,000 | £543,122 | 678 |
| 2011 | £350,000 | £528,365 | 657 |
| 2010 | £347,000 | £544,185 | 615 |
| 2009 | £300,000 | £482,253 | 572 |
| 2008 | £327,400 | £536,678 | 455 |
| 2007 | £320,000 | £542,809 | 1,030 |
| 2006 | £280,000 | £486,044 | 1,029 |
| 2005 | £282,500 | £502,736 | 739 |
| 2004 | £260,000 | £472,211 | 841 |
| 2003 | £248,000 | £456,876 | 790 |
| 2002 | £221,000 | £415,810 | 1,034 |
| 2001 | £190,000 | £365,265 | 980 |
| 2000 | £173,200 | £339,905 | 828 |
| 1999 | £140,000 | £279,013 | 1,029 |
| 1998 | £131,000 | £264,433 | 846 |
| 1997 | £115,600 | £237,072 | 1,039 |
| 1996 | £104,000 | £219,331 | 939 |
| 1995 | £96,000 | £208,689 | 682 |
In cash terms the typical WD3 home went from £96,000 in 1995 to £600,000 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 24% 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 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 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.0% | −10.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
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, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £915,000 against £315,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WD3
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 | £915,000 | 42 | 6,414 |
| Semi-detached | £625,000 | 77 | 7,103 |
| Terraced | £482,600 | 40 | 4,395 |
| Flats | £315,000 | 37 | 4,912 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WD3 recorded 461 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 909 sales a year before the financial crisis and 468 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How WD3 trades
WD3 sits 2 of 11 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
The rental side of WD3
For renting purposes WD3 sits in Three Rivers. The ONS average private rent there is £1,809 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,263 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,756, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Three Rivers
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £600,000 median sold price, £1,809 a month is £21,708 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
Asked and answered: WD3 (Chorleywood)
How much did a house sell for in WD3 (Chorleywood)?
Are property prices falling in WD3 (Chorleywood)?
Is WD3 (Chorleywood) a good place to buy a house?
Will WD3 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in WD3 today
Everything above is what homes in WD3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 171 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the WD3 median sold price.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Hill Rise, Rickmansworth, WD3
- Stag Lane, Chorleywood, WD3, Rickmansworth
- Nightingale Road, Rickmansworth, WD3, Rickmansworth
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 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. 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%) | — |
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
WD3 ranks 4 of 11 in the WD 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.
Winners and losers across the WD area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WD3, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 8 | £500,000 | 31 |
| WD3 9 | £435,000 | 22 |
How WD3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WD7 | £670,000 | -21% |
| WD3 (this report) | £600,000 | +5% |
| WD4 | £564,500 | +3% |
| WD23 | £543,500 | -1% |
| WD25 | £497,500 | +16% |
| WD5 | £461,500 | +3% |
| WD19 | £440,000 | +5% |
| WD6 | £432,500 | -8% |
| WD24 | £412,500 | +9% |
| WD17 | £400,000 | -2% |
| WD18 | £372,500 | +6% |
Selling in WD3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD3, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
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See every individual WD3 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.