An industrial town on the Birse, Moutier left the canton of Bern to join the canton of Jura on 1 January 2026 and makes up the District de Moutier on its own.
At CHF 3,700 per m², Moutier sits near the middle of the Jura scale. Which side of that median your own flat lands on depends more on floor, view and condition than on the address itself. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Jura reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery.
Out of 49 communes measured in Jura, Moutier sits at position 32. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average. A house in Moutier is valued around CHF 4,200 per m² against CHF 3,700 for a flat, a gap of 14 percent. Land is what separates the two figures, and the scarcer the building plots, the wider that gap runs.
Flat prices in Moutier are up 3.5 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. The largest group of homes in Moutier, 19 percent, dates from 1946-1960, 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 Moutier is 98 m² across 3.8 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre, because an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate and a small one often beats it.
CHF 3,700 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Moutier, 10 percent from Jura. 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. From CHF 4,100 to CHF 7,000 per square metre in 25 years, +71 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.
Moutier 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. Knowing the median in Moutier gets you halfway. The second half is what separates your property from that median (condition, orientation, outside space, parking, and the works still to be done).
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 →Around CHF 3,700 per m² for a flat, which is 10 percent from the Jura median. Houses are priced separately and usually land somewhere else entirely, so work from the figure that matches your property type.
Houses in Moutier are valued around CHF 4,200 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 Moutier date from 1946-1960. 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.