Gurmels, Cormondes in French, is a bilingual commune of the Lake district that brings together several villages between Fribourg and Murten.
At CHF 5,700 per m², Gurmels sits near the middle of the Fribourg scale. Which side of that median your own flat lands on depends more on floor, view and condition than on the address itself. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Fribourg reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery. Out of 83 communes measured in Fribourg, Gurmels sits at position 72. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average.
Houses carry a premium of 7 percent per square metre over flats in Gurmels, CHF 6,100 against CHF 5,700. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. Up 3.2 percent in a year, Gurmels 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.
Against the See / District du Lac district the gap comes to 14 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 Gurmels, 10 percent, dates from 2001-2005, 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 4.1 rooms and 122 m² on average, homes in Gurmels 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. The median flat in Gurmels comes out at CHF 5,700 per m², a gap of 11 percent against the Fribourg median. That figure covers every flat sold, whatever the floor, the age of the building or the state of the kitchen. The 25-year record opens at CHF 4,300 and closes at CHF 7,600, +77 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.
Transaction volume in Gurmels 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. Gurmels 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 5,700 per m² is the current median for flats in Gurmels. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
The reference is CHF 6,100 per m² in Gurmels. It averages a small number of sales, since houses change hands far less often than flats, so treat it as a bracket to work inside rather than as a price.
Homes in Gurmels average 4.1 rooms, with 2001-2005 the most common construction period at 10 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.