An immediate neighbour of the universities, Chavannes-près-Renens is one of the youngest and densest communes in the canton.
Flats in Chavannes-près-Renens change hands around CHF 11,200 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 22 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. Out of 132 communes measured in Vaud, Chavannes-près-Renens sits at position 21. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average.
Flats in Chavannes-près-Renens cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 11,200 against CHF 10,100. That points to a compact, well-served centre where small units are in demand, while the houses that sold sit further out on larger plots. The last twelve months added 3.7 percent in Chavannes-près-Renens. 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.
Within the l'Ouest lausannois district, Chavannes-près-Renens lands 0 percent from the local median. A cantonal average mixes city and countryside, so it flatters some communes and penalises others. The district figure removes most of that distortion. 1919-1945 accounts for 17 percent of homes in Chavannes-près-Renens, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune: two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone.
Average size in Chavannes-près-Renens is 66 m² across 2.7 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. Half the flats sold in Chavannes-près-Renens went above CHF 11,200 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 22 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,900 and closes at CHF 9,800, +151 percent apart. Use it to sanity-check an estimate rather than to project forward, since nothing in the series promises the next decade repeats it.
Transaction volume in Chavannes-près-Renens 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 Chavannes-près-Renens, 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 10, 2026
A range set against the price levels of your commune and the profile of your property.
Value my property →The median flat in Chavannes-près-Renens is priced at CHF 11,200 per m². That puts the commune 22 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 Chavannes-près-Renens are valued around CHF 10,100 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.
Homes in Chavannes-près-Renens average 2.7 rooms, with 1919-1945 the most common construction period at 17 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.