Murten, Morat in French, is a fortified medieval town on the shore of its lake, keeping intact ramparts and a bilingual soul at the heart of the Lake district.
Buying in Murten means paying more per square metre than almost anywhere in Fribourg: CHF 7,500 for a flat. The gap holds even on older stock, so renovation work rarely comes off the asking price the way it does elsewhere. 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 4 of 83 in Fribourg puts Murten 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. The last twelve months added 3.2 percent in Murten. 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 See / District du Lac district, Murten lands 14 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 Murten, 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. Average size in Murten is 107 m² across 3.7 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre: an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate, and a small one often beats it.
The median flat in Murten comes out at CHF 7,500 per m², a gap of 17 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. From CHF 3,700 to CHF 7,200 per square metre in 25 years, +95 percent in all. The path was not a straight line, and the flat or falling stretches inside it are precisely what a long average hides.
Murten 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. A price level like the one in Murten leaves little room for approximation. An estimate built on the actual characteristics of your property, floor, condition, view and exposure, will tell you more than any commune average.
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 7,500 per m² is the current median for flats in Murten. 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 7,600 per m² in Murten. 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.
The dominant band in Murten is before 1919, which covers 18 percent of homes. Average size runs to 3.7 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.