An immediate neighbour of Bulle, Riaz benefits from the Gruyère boom while keeping its village setting facing the Prealps.
At CHF 7,500 per m² for a flat, Riaz sits in the upper band of the Fribourg market. That level usually goes with scarce building land and few sales, so a valuation rests on a thin set of comparables. A gap of 17 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. Position 4 of 83 in Fribourg puts Riaz 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 Riaz cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 7,500 against CHF 7,100. 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. Flat prices in Riaz are up 3.2 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window: measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction.
Within the Gruyère district, Riaz lands 12 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. No single period defines Riaz, though after 2015 leads with 15 percent. That mix works in a buyer's favour, since you can choose between period character and low running costs without leaving the commune.
The average home in Riaz has 3.9 rooms for 111 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. The median flat in Riaz 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 3,900 to CHF 7,900 per square metre in 25 years, +103 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.
Enough properties change hands in Riaz each year to keep the price data steady. Estimates land in a narrower range here, and a valuation can lean on recent comparable sales instead of falling back on the cantonal average. In Riaz 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 7,500 per m² is the current median for flats in Riaz. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Count on roughly CHF 7,100 per m² for a house in Riaz. 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.
15 percent of homes in Riaz 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.