At the confluence of the Navizence and the Rhône facing Sierre, Chippis combines an industrial heritage with a valley-floor village.
Chippis prices below the Valais median, at CHF 4,400 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. Sitting under the Valais median gives a buyer room, though the discount is rarely free. It usually pays for distance from a station, from the lake, or from a school catchment that people compete over. Chippis ranks 60 out of 67 communes in Valais 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.
Houses carry a premium of 30 percent per square metre over flats in Chippis, CHF 5,700 against CHF 4,400. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. Flat prices in Chippis are up 4.0 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, Chippis lands 15 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 Chippis, 17 percent, dates from after 2015, 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 3.4 rooms and 88 m² on average, homes in Chippis 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. The median flat in Chippis comes out at CHF 4,400 per m², a gap of 20 percent against the Valais median. That figure covers every flat sold, whatever the floor, the age of the building or the state of the kitchen. The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,900 and closes at CHF 7,700, +97 percent apart. Use it to sanity-check an estimate rather than to project forward, since nothing in the series promises the next decade repeats it.
Enough properties change hands in Chippis 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. Lower prices in Chippis do not make a valuation easier. The spread between properties is often wider here than in an expensive commune, which makes the commune average a weak guide to what yours is worth.
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 →Around CHF 4,400 per m² for a flat, which is 20 percent from the Valais median. Houses are priced separately and usually land somewhere else entirely, so work from the figure that matches your property type.
The reference is CHF 5,700 per m² in Chippis. 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.
17 percent of homes in Chippis date from after 2015. That age band sets the technical agenda for a buyer here, since insulation, heating system and windows are what decide running costs for the next twenty years.