Donneloye absorbed the former municipality of Prahins and also takes in Gossens and Mézery-près-Donneloye, on the farming plateau between Yverdon-les-Bains and Bercher.
Donneloye prices below the Vaud median, at CHF 5,600 per m². For a buyer that widens what one budget covers, often by a room or by a plot. For a seller it means the surrounding communes set the ceiling. With 37 percent of homes dating from before 1919, the stock in Donneloye renews slowly. Thin new supply supports prices, and it also means the flats reaching the market often need a full technical inspection before any offer. The average home in Donneloye has 4.4 rooms for 129 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.
Sales are sparse in Donneloye, which makes any commune-level figure less certain. A property here is better valued on its own characteristics and on sales in the neighbouring communes than on a local median built from a handful of deeds. CHF 5,600 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Donneloye, 29 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.
A gap of 29 percent against Vaud means the same budget buys noticeably more surface here. It also means resale leans on demand spilling over from the pricier communes next door, which comes and goes with the cycle. Within the Jura-Nord vaudois district, Donneloye lands 10 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.
A house in Donneloye is valued around CHF 6,000 per m² against CHF 5,600 for a flat, a gap of 7 percent. Land is what separates the two figures, and the scarcer the building plots, the wider that gap runs. The last twelve months added 2.8 percent in Donneloye. 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 25-year record opens at CHF 4,100 and closes at CHF 8,700, +112 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.
Lower prices in Donneloye do not make a valuation easier. The spread between properties is often wider here than in an expensive commune, which makes the commune average a weak guide to what yours is worth.
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 →Around CHF 5,600 per m² for a flat, which is 29 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.
Count on roughly CHF 6,000 per m² for a house in Donneloye. 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 Donneloye average 4.4 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.