La Côte-aux-Fées stayed out of the Val-de-Travers merger. It is an upland village above Buttes near the French border, and its buildings are mostly old.
Flats in La Côte-aux-Fées trade around CHF 3,800 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. With 36 percent of homes dating from before 1919, the stock in La Côte-aux-Fées renews slowly. Thin new supply supports prices, and it also means the flats reaching the market often need a full technical inspection before any offer.
Average size in La Côte-aux-Fées is 111 m² across 4.0 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. Few properties sell in La Côte-aux-Fées each year, so the figures on this page rest on a small sample. Read them as an order of magnitude, since in a thin market two neighbouring sales can land far apart for no visible reason.
CHF 3,800 per m² is the working reference for a flat in La Côte-aux-Fées, 27 percent from Neuchâtel. 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. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Neuchâtel reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery. A house in La Côte-aux-Fées is valued around CHF 4,500 per m² against CHF 3,800 for a flat, a gap of 18 percent. Land is what separates the two figures, and the scarcer the building plots, the wider that gap runs.
The last twelve months added 3.1 percent in La Côte-aux-Fées. 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. Over 7 years the median moved from CHF 6,100 to CHF 6,800 per m², a change of +11 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Before you settle on a price in La Côte-aux-Fées, 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 La Côte-aux-Fées is priced at CHF 3,800 per m². That puts the commune 27 percent from the Neuchâtel 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 4,500 per m² for a house in La Côte-aux-Fées. 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.
The dominant band in La Côte-aux-Fées is before 1919, which covers 36 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.0 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.