St. Silvester is a German-speaking village in the Sense district, on the high ground between Le Mouret, Plasselb and Rechthalten, facing the Fribourg Prealps.
Flats in St. Silvester trade around CHF 5,400 per m², under the cantonal level. Cheaper communes tend to have wider spreads between streets, so a single average tells you less here than it would in a tighter market. Sitting under the Fribourg median gives a buyer room, though the discount is rarely free. It usually pays for distance from a station, from the lake, or from a school catchment that people compete over. St. Silvester ranks 108 out of 115 communes in Fribourg on flat prices per m². Rankings shift a place or two from one year to the next without anything real changing, so read the band rather than the exact position.
At CHF 6,000 per m² houses outprice flats in St. Silvester by 11 percent. The difference is the plot rather than the build. A house sells with land attached, and where there is little left to build on, the land does the pricing. Flat prices in St. Silvester are up 3.4 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window, so measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction.
Against the Sense district the gap comes to 4 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate, because communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. No single period defines St. Silvester, though before 1919 leads with 12 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 St. Silvester has 4.0 rooms for 130 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 5,400 per m² is the working reference for a flat in St. Silvester, 14 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 7,200 per m², a change of +89 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Enough properties change hands in St. Silvester 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. Lower prices in St. Silvester do not make a valuation easier. The spread between properties is often wider here than in an expensive commune, which makes the commune average a weak guide to what yours is worth.
Building stock from the Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings (FSO), updated October 18, 2026
Market data updated on October 12, 2026
A range set against the price levels of your commune and the profile of your property.
Value my property →CHF 5,400 per m² is the current median for flats in St. Silvester. 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 6,000 per m² for a house in St. Silvester. 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.
12 percent of homes in St. Silvester date from before 1919. 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.