At the gates of Bulle at the foot of the Moléson, Le Pâquier-Montbarry combines a Gruyère village with views of the Prealps.
Flat prices in Le Pâquier-Montbarry run at CHF 6,900 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. No single period defines Le Pâquier-Montbarry, though after 2015 leads with 14 percent. That mix works in a buyer's favour, since you can choose between period character and low running costs without leaving the commune.
At 4.0 rooms and 117 m² on average, homes in Le Pâquier-Montbarry 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. Few properties sell in Le Pâquier-Montbarry each year, so the figures on this page rest on a small sample. Read them as an order of magnitude: in a thin market two neighbouring sales can land far apart for no visible reason.
Half the flats sold in Le Pâquier-Montbarry went above CHF 6,900 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 8 percent from the Fribourg median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. A gap of 8 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. Against the Gruyère district the gap comes to 3 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.
Per square metre, a flat in Le Pâquier-Montbarry at CHF 6,900 costs more than a house at CHF 6,500. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for: corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves. Up 3.1 percent in a year, Le Pâquier-Montbarry 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.
Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 4,200 to CHF 8,300 per m², a change of +98 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Knowing the median in Le Pâquier-Montbarry gets you halfway. The second half is what separates your property from that median: condition, orientation, outside space, parking, and the works still to be done.
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 6,900 per m² for a flat, which is 8 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 6,500 per m² for a house in Le Pâquier-Montbarry. 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.
14 percent of homes in Le Pâquier-Montbarry date from after 2015. That age band sets the technical agenda for a buyer here, since insulation, heating system and windows are what decide running costs for the next twenty years.