In the Veveyse at the foot of the Alpettes, Saint-Martin brings together its town, Fiaugères and Besencens in a Prealpine countryside.
Flat prices in Saint-Martin run at CHF 5,700 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. The largest group of homes in Saint-Martin, 26 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 Saint-Martin is 117 m² across 4.1 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 market in Saint-Martin is thin, and that cuts both ways. Prices are slow to fall because few sellers are forced, and slow to be confirmed because months can pass without a single comparable sale. Half the flats sold in Saint-Martin went above CHF 5,700 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 11 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 11 percent against Fribourg means the same budget buys noticeably more surface here. It also means resale leans on demand spilling over from the pricier communes next door, which comes and goes with the cycle. Within the Veveyse district, Saint-Martin lands 16 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.
Houses carry a premium of 16 percent per square metre over flats in Saint-Martin, CHF 6,600 against CHF 5,700. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. Flat prices in Saint-Martin are up 3.8 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. The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,500 and closes at CHF 7,100, +103 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.
Saint-Martin 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 Saint-Martin. 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 6,600 per m² in Saint-Martin. 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 Saint-Martin is before 1919, which covers 26 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.1 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.