At the gates of Fribourg on the Sarine plain, Belfaux combines a well-preserved village with a direct rail link to the centre.
Flat prices in Belfaux run at CHF 6,700 per m², a level that has stayed in step with Fribourg. A commune like this one moves with the cantonal cycle rather than against it, so the wider trend is a fair guide for your own estimate. Paying 5 percent more than the cantonal median buys location, not floor space. The same budget moved to a neighbouring commune would typically add a room, and that is the trade most buyers here have already made.
Belfaux ranks 28 out of 83 communes in Fribourg on flat prices per m². Rankings shift a place or two from one year to the next without anything real changing, so read the band rather than the exact position. Flats in Belfaux cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 6,700 against CHF 6,400. That points to a compact, well-served centre where small units are in demand, while the houses that sold sit further out on larger plots.
Up 3.6 percent in a year, Belfaux has been priced by whoever was willing to pay most for a small number of properties. In a commune with few sales, that is exactly how a median gets moved. The district test is the harder one. Belfaux comes out 1 percent from the Sarine median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. No single period defines Belfaux, though 1971-1980 leads with 13 percent. That mix works in a buyer's favour, since you can choose between period character and low running costs without leaving the commune.
Average size in Belfaux is 106 m² across 3.8 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre: an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate, and a small one often beats it. Half the flats sold in Belfaux went above CHF 6,700 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 5 percent from the Fribourg median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average.
The 25-year record opens at CHF 4,000 and closes at CHF 8,100, +102 percent apart. Use it to sanity-check an estimate rather than to project forward, since nothing in the series promises the next decade repeats it. Enough properties change hands in Belfaux each year to keep the price data steady. Estimates land in a narrower range here, and a valuation can lean on recent comparable sales instead of falling back on the cantonal average.
If you are weighing a sale in Belfaux, the useful question is not the commune price but yours. A few minutes and a handful of characteristics are enough to place your property inside the local range.
Building stock data: Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings, FSO, updated August 3, 2026
Market data updated on August 24, 2026
A range set against the price levels of your commune and the profile of your property.
Value my property →CHF 6,700 per m² is the current median for flats in Belfaux. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Houses in Belfaux are valued around CHF 6,400 per m² of living space. The plot weighs heavily on that figure, so two houses of identical size can be far apart in price if one has land around it and the other has none.
Homes in Belfaux average 3.8 rooms, with 1971-1980 the most common construction period at 13 percent. The mix means condition varies a lot from one building to the next, and condition is what pulls two similar flats apart on price.