On the heights of Lavaux between lake and Jorat, Forel keeps a rural character a few minutes from the shore.
Forel (Lavaux) tracks Vaud closely, at CHF 8,500 per m² for a flat. Communes in this band are the easiest to value: enough sales to anchor a price, and no local anomaly pulling the figures around. Sitting under the Vaud median gives a buyer room, though the discount is rarely free. It usually pays for distance from a station, from the lake, or from a school catchment that people compete over. Position 73 of 132 in Vaud puts Forel (Lavaux) 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.
The 6 percent premium on flats over houses in Forel (Lavaux) 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. Up 3.2 percent in a year, Forel (Lavaux) 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 Lavaux-Oron district, Forel (Lavaux) lands 19 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. The largest group of homes in Forel (Lavaux), 27 percent, dates from before 1919, 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 Forel (Lavaux) is 106 m² across 4.0 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. The median flat in Forel (Lavaux) comes out at CHF 8,500 per m², a gap of 8 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 3,800 to CHF 8,300 per m², a change of +118 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Forel (Lavaux) 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. Knowing the median in Forel (Lavaux) gets you halfway. The second half is what separates your property from that median: condition, orientation, outside space, parking, and the works still to be done.
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 8,500 per m² for a flat, which is 8 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 Forel (Lavaux) are valued around CHF 8,000 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 Forel (Lavaux) is before 1919, which covers 27 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.0 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.