About £375,000 buys the middle of the market in Yelverton. Detached homes run to nearly six hundred thousand. Flats change hands at around a hundred and twenty. Thirty-one sales in twelve months is the whole evidence base, so the middle is an average of very different animals. The median is not the number that matters here. The spread underneath it is.
The Land Registry recorded 31 sales in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of £375,000. Detached houses accounted for eleven of them at a median of £587,500. Seven terraced sales came in at £385,000, seven semi-detached at £285,000, and six flats at £123,500. Terraces sitting above semis is a quirk of which seven houses happened to change hands rather than a rule about which type is worth more, and at this volume every type median is a sketch drawn with a thick pen.
The published house price index for the area registered a rise of about 2% over the twelve months to May 2026. Flats moved the other way over the same period, down about 2%. Neither figure is a story. A couple of percent in either direction is a market breathing, not a market doing anything.
Council tax runs high, which is what a stock of large detached houses produces. The most common band is F, and about 20% of dwellings sit in band A or B. A band D household pays about £2,705 a year, which is the figure worth holding against your current bill before anyone starts describing the place as good value.
Renting is the thin end of this market and the only reliable figure covers the whole district. Typical private rent across the West Devon area is about £840 a month as of April 2026, a mean taken from the national statistics office's rent index rather than a median of advertised listings, so it describes West Devon and not this village specifically. By size across the same area: about £600 for one bedroom, about £760 for two, about £940 for three, and about £1,340 for four or more.
Set the price against local earnings and the stretch is obvious. Modelled gross household income for this area, before tax, was about £52,000 for the financial year to March 2023. A £375,000 median against that is not a salary-multiple story, it is an equity story, which is roughly what the ownership pattern in the village already tells you.
By floor area, the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate came out at a median of about £3,300 per square metre, across about 48% of the sales in the period, so it is the measurable half of the market rather than all of it. The typical matched home measured 115 square metres. What the rate buys is bulk, and the bulk is why the headline looks the way it does.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 census confirms it. About 46% of households have four bedrooms or more, about 30% have three, about 16% have two and about 8% have one. Almost half the village is a four-bedroom house, which explains the median far better than any talk about the view.
Yelverton prices out as middling, and it does it honestly: the money is buying square metres and bedrooms rather than a postcode, and there is very little at the bottom of the market for anyone hoping to sneak in cheaply.