Saas-Almagell is the last commune up the Saas valley, beyond Saas-Grund, and its territory reaches as far as the Mattmark reservoir.
Flat prices in Saas-Almagell run at CHF 4,900 per m², a level that has stayed in step with Valais. A commune like this one moves with the cantonal cycle rather than against it, so the wider trend is a fair guide for your own estimate. 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. Position 69 of 119 in Valais puts Saas-Almagell 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 41 percent per square metre over flats in Saas-Almagell, CHF 6,900 against CHF 4,900. 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 4.6 percent in Saas-Almagell. 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. Saas-Almagell comes out 0 percent from the Visp median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. No single period defines Saas-Almagell, though before 1919 leads with 20 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 Saas-Almagell is 83 m² across 3.0 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre, because an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate and a small one often beats it. CHF 4,900 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Saas-Almagell, 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. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,800 to CHF 8,100 per m², a change of +113 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Saas-Almagell turns over enough stock to give a reliable read. The practical benefit shows at negotiation, where both sides can point to comparable sales from the same year, which shortens the distance between asking price and signature. Saas-Almagell is a market where recent comparable sales exist and mean something. An estimate here has solid ground to stand on, provided it starts from your surface, your floor and the age of your building.
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 Saas-Almagell 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.
Count on roughly CHF 6,900 per m² for a house in Saas-Almagell. 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.
20 percent of homes in Saas-Almagell 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.