Fontaines-sur-Grandson is a small village set high on the Jura slopes above Grandson and Lake Neuchâtel, with mostly old buildings.
At CHF 6,400 per m² for a flat, Fontaines-sur-Grandson is one of the cheaper places to buy in Vaud. Lower entry prices normally come with a longer commute or an older building, and one of the two usually explains the discount. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Vaud reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery. Fontaines-sur-Grandson ranks 204 out of 272 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.
The 5 percent premium on flats over houses in Fontaines-sur-Grandson is unusual and needs reading carefully. It normally means the flats sold recently were new or central, while the houses were older and priced mainly on their land. The last twelve months added 3.5 percent in Fontaines-sur-Grandson. 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 district test is the harder one. Fontaines-sur-Grandson comes out 3 percent from the Jura-Nord vaudois median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. 43 percent of the housing in Fontaines-sur-Grandson dates from before 1919. Older stock buys you volume and detail, and hands you the bill for it. Roof, heating and windows come round, and thermal performance is the first thing a valuer marks down.
At 4.3 rooms and 131 m² on average, homes in Fontaines-sur-Grandson are sized for households rather than single occupants. If you are looking for a studio or a two-room flat, expect a thinner choice and less room to negotiate. The median flat in Fontaines-sur-Grandson comes out at CHF 6,400 per m², a gap of 19 percent against the Vaud median. That figure covers every flat sold, whatever the floor, the age of the building or the state of the kitchen. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 4,000 to CHF 7,900 per m², a change of +98 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Fontaines-sur-Grandson 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. Lower prices in Fontaines-sur-Grandson 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 →CHF 6,400 per m² is the current median for flats in Fontaines-sur-Grandson. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Houses in Fontaines-sur-Grandson are valued around CHF 6,100 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.
The dominant band in Fontaines-sur-Grandson is before 1919, which covers 43 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.3 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.