Ballens is a village in the Jura foothills on the Bière-Apples-Morges railway, with mostly older buildings, between Bière, Yens and Hautemorges.
Flat prices in Ballens run at CHF 7,900 per m², a level that has stayed in step with Vaud. 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. Out of 272 communes measured in Vaud, Ballens sits at position 134. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average. The 11 percent premium on flats over houses in Ballens is unusual and needs reading carefully. It normally means the flats sold recently were new or central, while the houses were older and priced mainly on their land.
Up 2.3 percent in a year, Ballens 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. Ballens comes out 11 percent from the Morges median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it.
The largest band in Ballens is before 1919, at 37 percent of homes. Buildings of that age were rarely insulated when built, so running costs and the cost of the works belong in the price you offer, not in a list for later. Average size in Ballens is 110 m² across 3.9 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.
The median flat in Ballens comes out at CHF 7,900 per m², a gap of 0 percent against the Vaud median. That figure covers every flat sold, whatever the floor, the age of the building or the state of the kitchen. From CHF 4,500 to CHF 10,100 per square metre in 25 years, +124 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. Ballens 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.
Ballens 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 →CHF 7,900 per m² is the current median for flats in Ballens. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Count on roughly CHF 7,100 per m² for a house in Ballens. 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.
Homes in Ballens average 3.9 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 37 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.