Les Ponts-de-Martel and Petit-Martel lie in a high valley of marshland and peat bog south-west of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Les Ponts-de-Martel prices below the Neuchâtel median, at CHF 3,500 per m². For a buyer that widens what one budget covers, often by a room or by a plot. For a seller it means the surrounding communes set the ceiling. 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. Out of 21 communes measured in Neuchâtel, Les Ponts-de-Martel sits at position 20. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average.
Houses carry a premium of 11 percent per square metre over flats in Les Ponts-de-Martel, CHF 3,900 against CHF 3,500. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. Flat prices in Les Ponts-de-Martel are up 3.4 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 Les Ponts-de-Martel, 32 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. Average size in Les Ponts-de-Martel is 104 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.
The median flat in Les Ponts-de-Martel comes out at CHF 3,500 per m², a gap of 33 percent against the Neuchâtel median. That figure covers every flat sold, whatever the floor, the age of the building or the state of the kitchen. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,500 to CHF 7,000 per m², a change of +100 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Enough properties change hands in Les Ponts-de-Martel 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 Les Ponts-de-Martel, 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 Les Ponts-de-Martel is priced at CHF 3,500 per m². That puts the commune 33 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 3,900 per m² for a house in Les Ponts-de-Martel. 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.
Homes in Les Ponts-de-Martel average 3.8 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 32 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.