An international resort on its sunny plateau above Sierre, Crans-Montana combines golf, skiing and prestige property.
Buying in Crans-Montana means paying more per square metre than almost anywhere in Valais: CHF 10,500 for a flat. The gap holds even on older stock, so renovation work rarely comes off the asking price the way it does elsewhere. The premium over Valais has a practical effect at resale. Buyers arriving from cheaper communes negotiate hard on condition, because they are already stretched on the price per square metre before they walk in. Position 3 of 67 in Valais puts Crans-Montana among communes with similar price levels and often very different housing stock. Two communes can share a rank and still value the same flat differently once age and condition are taken in.
Houses carry a premium of 10 percent per square metre over flats in Crans-Montana, CHF 11,600 against CHF 10,500. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. The last twelve months added 3.8 percent in Crans-Montana. 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.
The district test is the harder one. Crans-Montana comes out 102 percent from the Sierre median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. The largest group of homes in Crans-Montana, 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 3.2 rooms and 91 m² on average, homes in Crans-Montana 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. CHF 10,500 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Crans-Montana, 91 percent from Valais. 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. The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,700 and closes at CHF 8,400, +127 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.
Transaction volume in Crans-Montana 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. The figures above describe Crans-Montana, 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 →Around CHF 10,500 per m² for a flat, which is 91 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.
Count on roughly CHF 11,600 per m² for a house in Crans-Montana. 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 Crans-Montana average 3.2 rooms, with after 2015 the most common construction period at 17 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.