North of Delémont, Movelier is a small hilltop village set well back from the Birse valley in rolling farmland.
At CHF 3,300 per m² for a flat, Movelier is one of the cheaper places to buy in Jura. Lower entry prices normally come with a longer commute or an older building, and one of the two usually explains the discount. A gap of 20 percent against Jura 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. Position 36 of 49 in Jura puts Movelier 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.
Houses carry a premium of 18 percent per square metre over flats in Movelier, CHF 3,900 against CHF 3,300. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. The last twelve months added 3.4 percent in Movelier. 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.
The district test is the harder one. Movelier comes out 27 percent from the Delémont median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. The largest group of homes in Movelier, 19 percent, dates from 1961-1970, 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.
At 4.1 rooms and 119 m² on average, homes in Movelier are sized for households rather than single occupants. If you are looking for a studio or a two-room flat, expect a thinner choice and less room to negotiate. Half the flats sold in Movelier went above CHF 3,300 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 20 percent from the Jura median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. From CHF 3,500 to CHF 6,000 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.
Enough properties change hands in Movelier 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. Before you settle on a price in Movelier, 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 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 →The median flat in Movelier is priced at CHF 3,300 per m². That puts the commune 20 percent from the Jura 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 Movelier are valued around CHF 3,900 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.
Homes in Movelier average 4.1 rooms, with 1961-1970 the most common construction period at 19 percent. The mix means condition varies a lot from one building to the next, and condition is what pulls two similar flats apart on price.