A small balcony over Lake Geneva between Vevey and Chardonne, Corseaux is home to Le Corbusier's famous Villa Le Lac.
Buying in Corseaux means paying more per square metre than almost anywhere in Vaud: CHF 11,400 for a flat. The gap holds even on older stock, so renovation work rarely comes off the asking price the way it does elsewhere. The premium over Vaud has a practical effect at resale. Buyers arriving from cheaper communes negotiate hard on condition, because they are already stretched on the price per square metre before they walk in. Position 18 of 132 in Vaud puts Corseaux 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 11 percent per square metre over flats in Corseaux, CHF 12,600 against CHF 11,400. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. Up 2.5 percent in a year, Corseaux 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.
Within the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district, Corseaux lands 5 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. No single period defines Corseaux, though 1919-1945 leads with 21 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 Corseaux has 4.0 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. CHF 11,400 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Corseaux, 24 percent from Vaud. 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. From CHF 3,700 to CHF 9,500 per square metre in 25 years, +157 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.
Corseaux 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. A price level like the one in Corseaux leaves little room for approximation. An estimate built on the actual characteristics of your property, floor, condition, view and exposure, will tell you more than any commune average.
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 →Around CHF 11,400 per m² for a flat, which is 24 percent from the Vaud median. Houses are priced separately and usually land somewhere else entirely, so work from the figure that matches your property type.
Houses in Corseaux are valued around CHF 12,600 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 Corseaux average 4.0 rooms, with 1919-1945 the most common construction period at 21 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.