On the edge of the Gruyère and the Veveyse, Vaulruz watches over its castle at the crossroads of the southern canton's roads.
Vaulruz tracks Fribourg closely, at CHF 6,300 per m² for a flat. Communes in this band are the easiest to value: enough sales to anchor a price, and no local anomaly pulling the figures around. Position 45 of 83 in Fribourg puts Vaulruz 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 7 percent premium on flats over houses in Vaulruz is unusual and needs reading carefully. It normally means the flats sold recently were new or central, while the houses were older and priced mainly on their land. The last twelve months added 3.9 percent in Vaulruz. 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 Gruyère district, Vaulruz lands 6 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 Vaulruz, though before 1919 leads with 18 percent. That mix works in a buyer's favour, since you can choose between period character and low running costs without leaving the commune. Average size in Vaulruz is 105 m² across 3.8 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.
Half the flats sold in Vaulruz went above CHF 6,300 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 2 percent from the Fribourg median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 4,000 to CHF 8,200 per m², a change of +105 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Vaulruz 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. Vaulruz 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 →The median flat in Vaulruz is priced at CHF 6,300 per m². That puts the commune 2 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.
Count on roughly CHF 5,900 per m² for a house in Vaulruz. 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.
18 percent of homes in Vaulruz 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.