One of the smallest municipalities in the Jura-Nord vaudois district, La Praz is a foothill village between L'Isle and Vallorbe.
Flats in La Praz trade around CHF 5,800 per m², under the cantonal level. Cheaper communes tend to have wider spreads between streets, so a single average tells you less here than it would in a tighter market. 43 percent of the housing in La Praz 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 4.2 rooms and 130 m² on average, homes in La Praz 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 market in La Praz is thin, and that cuts both ways. Prices are slow to fall because few sellers are forced, and slow to be confirmed because months can pass without a single comparable sale.
CHF 5,800 per m² is the working reference for a flat in La Praz, 27 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. 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. The district test is the harder one. La Praz comes out 6 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.
Up 2.2 percent in a year, La Praz 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. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 4,200 to CHF 8,400 per m², a change of +100 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
In La Praz the local price per m² is a floor, not an answer. What your property adds to it, or takes away from it, depends on its condition, its plot and its access to public transport.
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 5,800 per m² is the current median for flats in La Praz. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
The reference is CHF 5,700 per m² in La Praz. It averages a small number of sales, since houses change hands far less often than flats, so treat it as a bracket to work inside rather than as a price.
The dominant band in La Praz is before 1919, which covers 43 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.2 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.