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Chipperfield market report WD4 8, Kings Langley
The WD4 8 (Chipperfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,685 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD4 8 (Kings Langley) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WD4 8 (Kings Langley) sold for £480,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £504,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,340 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,685 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WD4 8 is one sector of WD4 (Kings Langley): 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 WD4 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.
Today's WD4 8 prices, from the sold record
Take the 41 registered 2026 sales in WD4 8 and the middle price, the median, is £480,000. The mean lands at £504,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WD4 8
Per square metre, WD4 8 homes have averaged around £5,340 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 WD4 8 68% above the country at large.
A typical WD4 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £480,000 | £480,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £471,500 | £482,775 | 114 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 144 |
| 2023 | £484,000 | £531,798 | 100 |
| 2022 | £532,500 | £624,417 | 166 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 179 |
| 2020 | £440,000 | £570,909 | 109 |
| 2019 | £357,500 | £468,597 | 153 |
| 2018 | £447,000 | £595,859 | 110 |
| 2017 | £503,000 | £686,042 | 123 |
| 2016 | £407,500 | £570,097 | 158 |
| 2015 | £372,500 | £526,343 | 164 |
| 2014 | £375,000 | £532,003 | 154 |
| 2013 | £317,500 | £456,851 | 147 |
| 2012 | £285,000 | £419,484 | 103 |
| 2011 | £280,000 | £422,692 | 121 |
| 2010 | £321,000 | £503,411 | 110 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 111 |
| 2008 | £261,100 | £427,998 | 164 |
| 2007 | £260,000 | £441,032 | 280 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 291 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 133 |
| 2004 | £248,200 | £450,780 | 132 |
| 2003 | £209,000 | £385,029 | 129 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 188 |
| 2001 | £166,000 | £319,127 | 180 |
| 2000 | £143,800 | £282,208 | 144 |
| 1999 | £128,800 | £256,692 | 172 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 145 |
| 1997 | £107,800 | £221,076 | 154 |
| 1996 | £85,200 | £179,683 | 162 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical WD4 8 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £480,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 151%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD4 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 2010 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−20.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.8% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WD4 8
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 41 sales completed in WD4 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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.
Reading the WD4 8 market
This is a thin market: 41 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within WD4, this sector trades 15% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around WD4 8
The local authority for WD4 8 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 £480,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,809 a month (£21,708 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Common questions on WD4 8 (Chipperfield)
How much did a house sell for in WD4 8 (Chipperfield)?
Are property prices falling in WD4 8 (Chipperfield)?
Is WD4 8 (Chipperfield) a good place to buy a house?
Will WD4 8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in WD4 right now
The live side of the market holds 71 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD4 district, not just WD4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Wander Wharf, Kings Langley, WD4, Kings Langley
- High Street, Kings Langley, WD4
- Chipperfield Road, Kings Langley
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 WD4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WD prices by size
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%) | — |
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. 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.
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 WD4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WD4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD4 9 | £856,400 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full WD4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WD4 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD4 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD4 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD4 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 WD4 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD4 8.
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The live map plots every individual WD4 8 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.