West Way, Rickmansworth house prices are built from 135 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £350,000. Across the 10 years from 2008 to 2018 the median moved +47.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +16.9%.
Median price paid
£350,000
Change in cash, 2008–2018
+47.3%
Change in real terms
+16.9%
Median per m²
£3,689
HM Land Registry135 sales40 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2026
Section 01
How West Way, Rickmansworth prices moved
The chart tracks the median West Way, Rickmansworth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2018. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £94,500 | £209,835 |
| 2000s | 6 | £250,000 | £455,426 |
| 2010s | 3 | £732,500 | £1,032,825 |
The highest yearly median on record for West Way, Rickmansworth is £817,500 in 2018; the lowest is £79,950 in 1997. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £94,500 to £817,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £209,835, so the real change over the whole record is +419.2% — about +7.42% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +47.3% in cash against +16.9% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 16 Jan 2026 | Detached | £1,170,000 | £1,170,000 |
| 16 | 6 Jan 2026 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,150,000 |
| 84 | 10 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £872,000 | £890,957 |
| 42 | 3 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £318,000 | £324,913 |
| 5 | 15 Oct 2024 | Detached | £1,070,000 | £1,125,896 |
| 55 | 25 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £830,000 | £873,358 |
| 69 | 12 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £615,000 | £647,127 |
| 78 | 3 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £382,500 | £413,276 |
| 86 | 21 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £950,000 | £1,026,437 |
| 64 | 10 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| 45 | 12 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £900,000 | £972,414 |
| 22 | 16 Dec 2022 | Detached | £1,100,000 | £1,274,445 |
| 51 | 30 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £925,002 | £1,071,695 |
| 65 | 18 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £738,000 | £855,037 |
| 12 | 23 Nov 2021 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,516,129 |
| 19 | 25 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £1,050,000 | £1,326,613 |
| 27 | 17 Jun 2021 | Detached | £1,240,000 | £1,566,667 |
| 71 | 24 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £750,000 | £947,581 |
| 46 | 12 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £335,000 | £433,747 |
| 82 | 13 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £665,000 | £861,019 |
| 60 | 22 Sep 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £347,500 | £449,931 |
| 39 | 10 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £740,000 | £958,127 |
| 66 | 29 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £330,000 | £431,633 |
| 46 | 18 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| 40 | 24 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £366,000 | £478,720 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to West Way, Rickmansworth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 West Way | £148,000 (1998) | £872,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 42 West Way | £202,000 (2006) | £318,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 55 West Way | £750,000 (2016) | £830,000 (2024) | +1.3% | -2.2% |
| 78 West Way | £105,000 (2000) | £382,500 (2023) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 86 West Way | £144,000 (1999) | £950,000 (2023) | +8.2% | +5.4% |
| 64 West Way | £54,000 (1997) | £390,000 (2023) | +7.9% | +5.1% |
| 45 West Way | £435,000 (2006) | £900,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.3% |
| 51 West Way | £429,000 (2013) | £925,002 (2022) | +8.9% | +6.2% |
| 12 West Way | £345,000 (2001) | £1,200,000 (2021) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
| 19 West Way | £340,500 (2000) | £1,050,000 (2021) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
| 27 West Way | £570,000 (2013) | £1,240,000 (2021) | +10.2% | +8.2% |
| 71 West Way | £250,000 (2002) | £750,000 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. West Way, Rickmansworth is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 58 | 43.0% | £358,000 | £90,000 – £1,050,000 |
| Detached | 41 | 30.4% | £570,000 | £210,000 – £1,240,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 32 | 23.7% | £205,000 | £5,500 – £400,000 |
| Terraced | 4 | 3.0% | £235,000 | £66,000 – £430,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in West Way, Rickmansworth
40 of the sales on record are leasehold and 95 freehold — 29.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £216,000 and the median freehold sale £499,999 — a gap of +131.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 40 | 29.6% | £216,000 |
| Freehold | 95 | 70.4% | £499,999 |
A further 3 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in West Way, Rickmansworth
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £350,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.06% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WD3, 126 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 39 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 20 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.23 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around West Way, Rickmansworth
The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
21 state and independent schools have a WD3 postcode: 16 primary, 5 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Clement Danes School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,585 |
| Rickmansworth School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,575 |
| Saint Joan of Arc Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,198 |
| Croxley Danes School | Secondary | Free schools | 1,049 |
| The Reach Free School | Secondary | Free schools | 734 |
| Yorke Mead Primary School | Primary | Community school | 441 |
| Little Green Junior School | Primary | Community school | 346 |
| St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 275 |
| Harvey Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 240 |
| Malvern Way Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 240 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Rickmansworth Underground Station | Tram | 0.9 km |
| Rickmansworth Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.9 km |
| Rickmansworth Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.9 km |
| Rickmansworth Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
Section 09
How West Way, Rickmansworth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. West Way, Rickmansworth sits above that national figure — +122.2%.
Within Rickmansworth the street ranks 239 of 446 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £310,000 (+12.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,689 per square metre, across 40 of the 135 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £5,500 to £1,240,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
West Way, Rickmansworth sits in Buckinghamshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- New Road£237,000 median
- Uxbridge Road£220,000 median
- High Street£249,950 median
- Watford Road£249,975 median
- Baldwins Lane£310,000 median
- Church Lane£247,000 median
- Northway£228,998 median
- Links Way£310,000 median
- Ebury Road£335,000 median
- The Green£562,500 median
- Quickley Lane£465,000 median
- Williamson Way£190,000 median
- Thellusson Way£212,500 median
- Highfield Way£577,500 median
- Berry Lane£337,500 median
- Salters Close£165,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 84 West Way6 sales
- 78 West Way6 sales
- 45 West Way4 sales
- 12 West Way4 sales
- 60 West Way4 sales
- 40 West Way4 sales
- 73 West Way4 sales
- 50 West Way4 sales
- 47 West Way4 sales
- 55 West Way3 sales
- 86 West Way3 sales
- 64 West Way3 sales
- 51 West Way3 sales
- 82 West Way3 sales
- 53 West Way3 sales
- 6 West Way3 sales
- 81 West Way3 sales
- 56 West Way3 sales
- 26 West Way3 sales
- 15 West Way3 sales
- 62 West Way3 sales
- 42 West Way2 sales
- 19 West Way2 sales
- 27 West Way2 sales
Back to Rickmansworth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in West Way, Rickmansworth?
The median price paid in West Way, Rickmansworth across every sale on the register is £350,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in West Way, Rickmansworth?
135 sales are on record for West Way, Rickmansworth, the most recent completing on 16 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have West Way, Rickmansworth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +47.3% between 2008 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +16.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were West Way, Rickmansworth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £817,500, set in 2018. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in West Way, Rickmansworth?
£3,689 per square metre, from the 40 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 16 Jan 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “West Way, Rickmansworth house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.