In the heart of the Terre Sainte, Founex lives in the immediate orbit of Geneva, with one of the most highly valued markets in the canton.
Flats in Founex change hands around CHF 11,900 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. A gap of 29 percent over the Vaud median is not statistical noise. It measures what buyers accept to pay for the location itself, and it holds through the cycle instead of appearing in one strong year.
Position 12 of 132 in Vaud puts Founex 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. A house in Founex is valued around CHF 13,800 per m² against CHF 11,900 for a flat, a gap of 16 percent. Land is what separates the two figures, and the scarcer the building plots, the wider that gap runs.
The last twelve months added 2.7 percent in Founex. 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. Within the Nyon district, Founex lands 12 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 Founex, 16 percent, dates from 1971-1980, 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.
The average home in Founex has 4.7 rooms for 142 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. The median flat in Founex comes out at CHF 11,900 per m², a gap of 29 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 3,600 to CHF 9,400 per m², a change of +161 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Founex 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.
The figures above describe Founex, not your property. At this end of the market the distance between the two is where the negotiation happens, so start from a valuation that takes your own characteristics as its input.
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 11,900 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 13,800 per m² for a house in Founex. 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 Founex average 4.7 rooms, with 1971-1980 the most common construction period at 16 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.