At the gates of Fribourg on the Glâne plain, Matran combines a residential village with direct motorway access.
Flats in Matran change hands around CHF 7,600 per m², well above what the rest of Fribourg pays. The premium is priced into the land more than into the building, which is why two similar houses here can be valued very differently. The premium over Fribourg has a practical effect at resale. Buyers arriving from cheaper communes negotiate hard on condition, because they are already stretched on the price per square metre before they walk in. Position 3 of 83 in Fribourg puts Matran among communes with similar price levels and often very different housing stock. Two communes can share a rank and still value the same flat differently once age and condition are taken in.
Flats in Matran cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 7,600 against CHF 7,200. 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. The last twelve months added 3.1 percent in Matran. 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.
The district test is the harder one. Matran comes out 12 percent from the Sarine median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. The largest group of homes in Matran, 19 percent, dates from 1986-1990, 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 Matran has 3.8 rooms for 110 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. CHF 7,600 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Matran, 19 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 3,800 to CHF 7,500 per m², a change of +97 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Matran 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. In Matran the difference between two flats on the same street can run into six figures. Getting your own number, rather than reading the commune median, is what makes that difference visible before you set a price.
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 7,600 per m² is the current median for flats in Matran. 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 Matran are valued around CHF 7,200 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.
The dominant band in Matran is 1986-1990, which covers 19 percent of homes. Average size runs to 3.8 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.