A historic lock of the Rhône valley around its thousand-year-old abbey, Saint-Maurice keeps the soul of a small heritage town.
At CHF 4,700 per m² for a flat, Saint-Maurice 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.
Position 54 of 67 in Valais puts Saint-Maurice 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 15 percent per square metre over flats in Saint-Maurice, CHF 5,400 against CHF 4,700. 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 3.5 percent in Saint-Maurice. 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. Saint-Maurice comes out 8 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. No single period defines Saint-Maurice, though after 2015 leads with 18 percent. That mix works in a buyer's favour, since you can choose between period character and low running costs without leaving the commune.
At 3.6 rooms and 97 m² on average, homes in Saint-Maurice 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 4,700 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Saint-Maurice, 15 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. Saint-Maurice 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.
In Saint-Maurice the local price per m² is a floor, not an answer. What your property adds to it, or takes away from it, depends on its condition, its plot and its access to public transport.
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 →The median flat in Saint-Maurice is priced at CHF 4,700 per m². That puts the commune 15 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 5,400 per m² for a house in Saint-Maurice. 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.
18 percent of homes in Saint-Maurice 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.