Across the Rhône from Vernayaz, Dorénaz is a Saint-Maurice district village lying between Collonges and Fully, a short drive from Martigny.
At CHF 4,900 per m², Dorénaz sits near the middle of the Valais scale. Which side of that median your own flat lands on depends more on floor, view and condition than on the address itself. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Valais reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery.
Dorénaz ranks 69 out of 119 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 8 percent per square metre over flats in Dorénaz, CHF 5,300 against CHF 4,900. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop.
Up 3.7 percent in a year, Dorénaz 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 district test is the harder one. Dorénaz comes out 0 percent from the Saint-Maurice median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. before 1919 accounts for 13 percent of homes in Dorénaz, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune, where two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone.
At 3.6 rooms and 95 m² on average, homes in Dorénaz 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 4,900 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Dorénaz, 6 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 3,800 and closes at CHF 8,000, +111 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 Dorénaz 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.
Knowing the median in Dorénaz gets you halfway. The second half is what separates your property from that median (condition, orientation, outside space, parking, and the works still to be done).
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 Dorénaz is priced at CHF 4,900 per m². That puts the commune 6 percent from the Valais 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.
Houses in Dorénaz are valued around CHF 5,300 per m² of living space. The plot weighs heavily on that figure, so two houses of identical size can be far apart in price if one has land around it and the other has none.
13 percent of homes in Dorénaz date from before 1919. 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.