St. Ursen, Saint-Ours in French, is a village in the hills of the Sense district that cultivates a German-speaking rural setting a few minutes from Tafers.
Flats in St. Ursen trade around CHF 5,600 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. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Fribourg reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery.
Out of 83 communes measured in Fribourg, St. Ursen sits at position 75. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average. The last twelve months added 2.9 percent in St. Ursen. 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.
Against the Sense district the gap comes to 0 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate: communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. before 1919 accounts for 19 percent of homes in St. Ursen, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune: two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone. The average home in St. Ursen has 4.0 rooms for 115 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.
Half the flats sold in St. Ursen went above CHF 5,600 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 13 percent from the Fribourg median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. From CHF 5,300 to CHF 10,000 per square metre in 25 years, +89 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.
Transaction volume in St. Ursen is high enough that one unusual sale does not distort the medians. That matters, because thin markets are where automated estimates go furthest wrong and where a local opinion earns its keep. Before you settle on a price in St. Ursen, get a number that reflects your own property rather than the commune. It takes a few minutes, and it changes what you are able to defend in a negotiation.
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 →The median flat in St. Ursen is priced at CHF 5,600 per m². That puts the commune 13 percent from the Fribourg median, a gap explained in part by the age of the local stock and in part by how little land is left to build on.
Houses in St. Ursen are valued around CHF 5,800 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.
19 percent of homes in St. Ursen 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.