Royal William Yard, Plymouth house prices are built from 413 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2005 and the most recent on 3 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £220,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +27.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.8%.
Median price paid
£220,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+27.3%
Change in real terms
-7.8%
Median per m²
£3,012
HM Land Registry413 sales98 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Royal William Yard, Plymouth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Royal William Yard, Plymouth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2005 to 2025. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | £210,000 | £382,558 |
| 2010s | 10 | £205,000 | £289,050 |
| 2020s | 6 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Royal William Yard, Plymouth is £325,000 in 2024; the lowest is £132,000 in 2011. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £210,000 to £257,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £382,558, so the real change over the whole record is -31.2% — about -1.85% 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: +27.3% in cash against -7.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 19 Clarence, 10 | 3 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £441,000 | £441,000 |
| Flat 38 Clarence, 10 | 16 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| Flat 37 4 | 13 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| Flat 37 8 | 28 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £257,000 | £262,587 |
| Flat 18 4 | 17 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| Flat 78 4 | 21 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| House 17 Factory Cooperage, 31 | 15 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| Flat 15 4 | 8 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £137,000 | £139,978 |
| House 10 Factory Cooperage, 31 | 1 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £418,000 | £427,087 |
| Flat 43 4 | 24 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| Flat 38 4 | 10 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| Flat 83 4 | 8 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £575,000 | £587,500 |
| Flat 41 8 | 21 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £620,000 | £633,478 |
| Flat 10 Clarence, 10 | 29 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| House 2 Factory Cooperage, 31 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| Flat 58 8 | 27 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| Flat 6 4 | 25 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £172,500 | £176,250 |
| Flat 51 8 | 21 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £258,000 | £263,609 |
| Flat 28 Clarence, 10 | 7 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| Flat 39 Clarence, 10 | 7 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| Flat 62 8 | 7 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £257,500 | £263,098 |
| Flat 31 Clarence, 10 | 12 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| House 13 Factory Cooperage, 31 | 10 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £415,000 | £436,679 |
| Flat 40 Clarence, 10 | 10 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| House 22 Factory Cooperage, 31 | 3 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £426,000 | £448,254 |
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 Royal William Yard, Plymouth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 19 CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard | £412,576 (2007) | £441,000 (2026) | +0.4% | -2.5% |
| FLAT 38 CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard | £262,000 (2022) | £300,000 (2026) | +3.4% | -0.3% |
| FLAT 37 4 Royal William Yard | £160,000 (2008) | £185,000 (2026) | +0.8% | -2.0% |
| FLAT 37 8 Royal William Yard | £220,000 (2006) | £257,000 (2025) | +0.8% | -2.1% |
| FLAT 18 4 Royal William Yard | £132,076 (2008) | £130,000 (2025) | -0.1% | -3.0% |
| FLAT 78 4 Royal William Yard | £247,500 (2013) | £245,000 (2025) | -0.1% | -3.0% |
| FLAT 15 4 Royal William Yard | £135,000 (2008) | £137,000 (2025) | +0.1% | -2.8% |
| FLAT 43 4 Royal William Yard | £192,000 (2008) | £170,000 (2025) | -0.7% | -3.6% |
| FLAT 38 4 Royal William Yard | £175,750 (2008) | £170,000 (2025) | -0.2% | -3.1% |
| FLAT 83 4 Royal William Yard | £475,000 (2009) | £575,000 (2025) | +1.2% | -1.8% |
| FLAT 41 8 Royal William Yard | £330,000 (2006) | £620,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 10 CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard | £200,000 (2005) | £265,000 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Royal William Yard, Plymouth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 403 | 97.6% | £215,000 | £75,000 – £820,000 |
| Terraced | 10 | 2.4% | £415,000 | £350,000 – £475,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Royal William Yard, Plymouth
413 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 413 | 100.0% | £220,000 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 172 | 41.6% | £213,500 |
| Existing home | 241 | 58.4% | £223,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -4.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 40 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 Royal William Yard, Plymouth
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Plymouth, 46.5% of 142,697 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 688 | 0.5% |
| B | 15,064 | 10.6% |
| C | 50,598 | 35.5% |
| D | 54,508 | 38.2% |
| E | 16,647 | 11.7% |
| F | 3,832 | 2.7% |
| G | 1,360 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Plymouth at £998 a month as of Jun 2026 — £701 for a one-bedroom home and £1,058 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £220,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.44% 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 PL1, 1,048 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 407 violent, 14 burglary, 19 vehicle-related and 144 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 6.3 times busier.
Against the 264,695 residents the 2021 census counted in Plymouth, that is 3.96 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 Royal William Yard, Plymouth
The 2021 census counted 264,695 residents in Plymouth across 114,557 households. 58.8% of those households own their home and 41.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a PL1 postcode: 11 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devonport High School for Boys | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,300 |
| UTC Plymouth | Secondary | University technical college | 594 |
| Millbay Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 526 |
| Stoke Damerel Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 387 |
| Pilgrim Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 361 |
| Mount Wise Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 248 |
| High Street Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 214 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 201 |
| St Peter's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 192 |
| St Andrew's Cof E VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 190 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Plymouth Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 0.7 km |
| Plymouth Stonehouse Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 0.9 km |
| Plymouth Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Royal William Yard Ferry Landing | Ferry | 1.2 km |
Section 09
How Royal William Yard, Plymouth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Royal William Yard, Plymouth sits above that national figure — +39.7%.
Within Plymouth the street ranks 513 of 2885 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £132,500 (+66.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,012 per square metre, across 98 of the 413 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 £75,000 to £820,000. 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.
Royal William Yard, Plymouth sits in Plymouth, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Plymouth at 6.2 times median local earnings of £36,483 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
- Durnford Street£140,000 median
- Molesworth Road£120,000 median
- Stuart Road£96,000 median
- North Road West£85,000 median
- Valletort Road£120,000 median
- Millbay Road£174,450 median
- Wilton Street£104,000 median
- Citadel Road£115,000 median
- Craigie Drive£195,000 median
- Grand Parade£187,000 median
- Hotham Place£130,000 median
- Elliot Street£120,000 median
- Nelson Gardens£114,750 median
- Richmond Walk£230,500 median
- Notte Street£174,950 median
- Endeavour Court£148,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 11, 8 Royal William Yard5 sales
- FLAT 36, 8 Royal William Yard5 sales
- FLAT 19, CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 37, 4 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 40, CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 14, 8 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 35, 8 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 1, 8 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 13, CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 21, CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 68, 4 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 6, CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard4 sales
- FLAT 37, 8 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 78, 4 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 43, 4 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 83, 4 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 58, 8 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 51, 8 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 28, CLARENCE, 10 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 74, 8 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 36, 4 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 26, 4 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 8, 8 Royal William Yard3 sales
- FLAT 49, 4 Royal William Yard3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Royal William Yard, Plymouth?
The median price paid in Royal William Yard, Plymouth across every sale on the register is £220,000. 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 Royal William Yard, Plymouth?
413 sales are on record for Royal William Yard, Plymouth, the most recent completing on 3 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Royal William Yard, Plymouth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +27.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Royal William Yard, Plymouth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £325,000, set in 2024. 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 Royal William Yard, Plymouth?
£3,012 per square metre, from the 98 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 3 Mar 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, “Royal William Yard, Plymouth 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.