A vast alpine valley above Sierre, Anniviers brings together the resorts of Grimentz, Zinal, Saint-Luc and Chandolin in a preserved setting.
Buying in Anniviers means paying more per square metre than almost anywhere in Valais: CHF 8,000 for a flat. The gap holds even on older stock, so renovation work rarely comes off the asking price the way it does elsewhere. A gap of 45 percent over the Valais 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.
Out of 67 communes measured in Valais, Anniviers sits at position 6. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average. A house in Anniviers is valued around CHF 9,100 per m² against CHF 8,000 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 Anniviers are up 2.4 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window: measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction. Within the Sierre district, Anniviers lands 54 percent from the local median. A cantonal average mixes city and countryside, so it flatters some communes and penalises others. The district figure removes most of that distortion. The largest group of homes in Anniviers, 19 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 Anniviers has 3.2 rooms for 79 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. Half the flats sold in Anniviers went above CHF 8,000 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 45 percent from the Valais median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average.
Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,700 to CHF 8,100 per m², a change of +119 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Enough properties change hands in Anniviers 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.
The figures above describe Anniviers, not your property. At this end of the market the distance between the two is where the negotiation happens, so start from a valuation that takes your own characteristics as its input.
Building stock data: Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings, FSO, updated August 3, 2026
Market data updated on August 24, 2026
A range set against the price levels of your commune and the profile of your property.
Value my property →CHF 8,000 per m² is the current median for flats in Anniviers. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
The reference is CHF 9,100 per m² in Anniviers. It averages a small number of sales, since houses change hands far less often than flats, so treat it as a bracket to work inside rather than as a price.
Homes in Anniviers average 3.2 rooms, with before 1919 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.