At the crossroads of the valleys towards the Grand-Saint-Bernard and the Val Ferret, Orsières combines a mountain town with the resorts of Champex and La Fouly.
At CHF 4,400 per m² for a flat, Orsières is one of the cheaper places to buy in Valais. Lower entry prices normally come with a longer commute or an older building, and one of the two usually explains the discount. 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. Orsières 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.
At CHF 5,200 per m² houses outprice flats in Orsières by 18 percent. The difference is the plot rather than the build: a house sells with land attached, and where there is little left to build on, the land does the pricing. Flat prices in Orsières are up 2.2 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.
Against the District d'Entremont district the gap comes to 15 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate: communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. No single period defines Orsières, though after 2015 leads with 14 percent. That mix works in a buyer's favour, since you can choose between period character and low running costs without leaving the commune.
Average size in Orsières is 79 m² across 3.7 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre: an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate, and a small one often beats it. CHF 4,400 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Orsières, 20 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. From CHF 3,500 to CHF 7,700 per square metre in 25 years, +120 percent in all. The path was not a straight line, and the flat or falling stretches inside it are precisely what a long average hides.
Enough properties change hands in Orsières 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 Orsières 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 →CHF 4,400 per m² is the current median for flats in Orsières. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Houses in Orsières are valued around CHF 5,200 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.
14 percent of homes in Orsières 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.