Above Turtmann on the south side of the Rhône valley, Ergisch is a small German-speaking village in the Leuk district, made up mostly of older houses.
Flats in Ergisch trade around CHF 3,500 per m², under the cantonal level. Cheaper communes tend to have wider spreads between streets, so a single average tells you less here than it would in a tighter market. 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.
Out of 119 communes measured in Valais, Ergisch sits at position 112. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average. Up 4.3 percent in a year, Ergisch 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.
Against the Leuk district the gap comes to 8 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate, because communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. 49 percent of the housing in Ergisch dates from before 1919. Older stock buys you volume and detail, and hands you the bill for it. Roof, heating and windows come round, and thermal performance is the first thing a valuer marks down. The average home in Ergisch has 2.9 rooms for 60 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 Ergisch went above CHF 3,500 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 33 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 5,000 to CHF 10,500 per m², a change of +110 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Transaction volume in Ergisch 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. Before you settle on a price in Ergisch, 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
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Value my property →The median flat in Ergisch is priced at CHF 3,500 per m². That puts the commune 33 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 Ergisch are valued around CHF 3,500 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.
Homes in Ergisch average 2.9 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 49 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.