A town of universities, Écublens is home to the EPFL and UNIL on its shores and benefits from exceptional housing demand.
Flats in Écublens change hands around CHF 11,300 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. Paying 23 percent more than the cantonal median buys location, not floor space. The same budget moved to a neighbouring commune would typically add a room, and that is the trade most buyers here have already made.
Écublens ranks 20 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. Per square metre, a flat in Écublens at CHF 11,300 costs more than a house at CHF 10,700. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for: corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves.
The last twelve months added 2.9 percent in Écublens. 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. Against the l'Ouest lausannois 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. The largest group of homes in Écublens, 14 percent, dates from 1961-1970, with the rest spread across the other bands. Where stock is this varied, a commune price per m² carries less weight and the comparison has to come down to buildings of the same age.
Average size in Écublens is 82 m² across 3.1 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. CHF 11,300 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Écublens, 23 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.
The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,600 and closes at CHF 9,700, +169 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. Écublens 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. In Écublens the difference between two flats on the same street can run into six figures. Getting your own number, rather than reading the commune median, is what makes that difference visible before you set a price.
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 11,300 per m² for a flat, which is 23 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 10,700 per m² for a house in Écublens. 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 Écublens average 3.1 rooms, with 1961-1970 the most common construction period at 14 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.