Clinging to the hillside above Vevey, Chardonne overlooks Lake Geneva between the Lavaux vineyards and the wooded heights of Mont-Pèlerin.
Flats in Chardonne change hands around CHF 11,000 per m², well above what the rest of Vaud pays. The premium is priced into the land more than into the building, which is why two similar houses here can be valued very differently. A gap of 20 percent over the Vaud median is not statistical noise. It measures what buyers accept to pay for the location itself, and it holds through the cycle instead of appearing in one strong year.
Chardonne ranks 28 out of 132 communes in Vaud 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. Flat prices in Chardonne are up 2.8 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 Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district the gap comes to 1 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 Chardonne, though before 1919 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. The average home in Chardonne has 3.9 rooms for 118 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 Chardonne went above CHF 11,000 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 20 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. From CHF 3,800 to CHF 9,300 per square metre in 25 years, +145 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.
Transaction volume in Chardonne 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. The figures above describe Chardonne, not your property. At this end of the market the distance between the two is where the negotiation happens, so start from a valuation that takes your own characteristics as its input.
Building stock data: Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings, FSO, updated August 3, 2026
Market data updated on August 24, 2026
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Value my property →The median flat in Chardonne is priced at CHF 11,000 per m². That puts the commune 20 percent from the Vaud 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 Chardonne are valued around CHF 11,300 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.
18 percent of homes in Chardonne 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.