A medieval town on the shore of Lake Neuchâtel, Estavayer watches over its Chenaux castle and stands as the capital of the Fribourg Broye.
Estavayer tracks Fribourg closely, at CHF 6,600 per m² for a flat. Communes in this band are the easiest to value: enough sales to anchor a price, and no local anomaly pulling the figures around. Estavayer ranks 33 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.
At CHF 7,300 per m² houses outprice flats in Estavayer by 11 percent. The difference is the plot rather than the build: a house sells with land attached, and where there is little left to build on, the land does the pricing. Flat prices in Estavayer are up 3.2 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window: measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction.
Against the Broye district the gap comes to 2 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate: communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. The largest group of homes in Estavayer, 18 percent, dates from before 1919, with the rest spread across the other bands. Where stock is this varied, a commune price per m² carries less weight and the comparison has to come down to buildings of the same age. At 3.6 rooms and 101 m² on average, homes in Estavayer are sized for households rather than single occupants. If you are looking for a studio or a two-room flat, expect a thinner choice and less room to negotiate.
CHF 6,600 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Estavayer, 3 percent from Fribourg. Take it as a starting point: in a commune this size, the spread between the cheapest and the dearest street is often wider than the gap to the canton. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,900 to CHF 8,000 per m², a change of +105 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Estavayer turns over enough stock to give a reliable read. The practical benefit shows at negotiation, where both sides can point to comparable sales from the same year, which shortens the distance between asking price and signature. Estavayer is a market where recent comparable sales exist and mean something. An estimate here has solid ground to stand on, provided it starts from your surface, your floor and the age of your building.
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 →Around CHF 6,600 per m² for a flat, which is 3 percent from the Fribourg median. Houses are priced separately and usually land somewhere else entirely, so work from the figure that matches your property type.
Count on roughly CHF 7,300 per m² for a house in Estavayer. That rate applies to habitable surface, which leaves out the garage, the cellar and any unconverted attic, all of which add value but never at the same rate.
Homes in Estavayer average 3.6 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 18 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.