Around its perched medieval town and its castle, Gruyères is one of the most visited places in Switzerland, between cheese and the Prealps.
Gruyères tracks Fribourg closely, at CHF 7,000 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. A gap of 9 percent over the Fribourg median is not statistical noise. It measures what buyers accept to pay for the location itself, and it holds through the cycle instead of appearing in one strong year.
Gruyères ranks 17 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. Per square metre, a flat in Gruyères at CHF 7,000 costs more than a house at CHF 6,300. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for: corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves.
The last twelve months added 3.9 percent in Gruyères. Rises of this order usually come from a shortage of listings rather than from a wave of new buyers, and they unwind faster than they build. Within the Gruyère district, Gruyères lands 4 percent from the local median. A cantonal average mixes city and countryside, so it flatters some communes and penalises others. The district figure removes most of that distortion. The largest group of homes in Gruyères, 17 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.
The average home in Gruyères has 3.7 rooms for 104 m². That ratio describes the shape of local demand better than the price does: many small rooms point to family housing, fewer and larger ones to conversions and new build. Half the flats sold in Gruyères went above CHF 7,000 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 9 percent from the Fribourg median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average.
Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,800 to CHF 8,500 per m², a change of +124 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Transaction volume in Gruyères is high enough that one unusual sale does not distort the medians. That matters, because thin markets are where automated estimates go furthest wrong and where a local opinion earns its keep.
Gruyères 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 →CHF 7,000 per m² is the current median for flats in Gruyères. 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 Gruyères are valued around CHF 6,300 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 Gruyères average 3.7 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 17 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.