Laténa combines Saint-Blaise, Hauterive, Enges and La Tène (Marin-Epagnier, Thielle-Wavre) east of Neuchâtel. Its name recalls the La Tène site, which gave its own name to an Iron Age culture.
Flats in Laténa change hands around CHF 7,100 per m², well above what the rest of Neuchâtel pays. The premium is priced into the land more than into the building, which is why two similar houses here can be valued very differently. A gap of 37 percent over the Neuchâtel median is not statistical noise. It measures what buyers accept to pay for the location itself, and it holds through the cycle instead of appearing in one strong year. Laténa ranks 2 out of 21 communes in Neuchâtel on flat prices per m². Rankings shift a place or two from one year to the next without anything real changing, so read the band rather than the exact position.
Up 3.3 percent in a year, Laténa has been priced by whoever was willing to pay most for a small number of properties. In a commune with few sales, that is exactly how a median gets moved. The largest group of homes in Laténa, 18 percent, dates from before 1919, 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.
The average home in Laténa has 3.7 rooms for 102 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. CHF 7,100 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Laténa, 37 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.
From CHF 3,800 to CHF 7,800 per square metre in 25 years, +105 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 Laténa 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. In Laténa the difference between two flats on the same street can run into six figures. Getting your own number, rather than reading the commune median, is what makes that difference visible before you set a price.
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 →CHF 7,100 per m² is the current median for flats in Laténa. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Count on roughly CHF 7,100 per m² for a house in Laténa. 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 Laténa is before 1919, which covers 18 percent of homes. Average size runs to 3.7 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.