In the Vallée de Joux, Le Lieu also takes in Les Charbonnières and Le Séchey, between Lac de Joux and the smaller Lac Brenet.
Flats in Le Lieu trade around CHF 5,100 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. With 34 percent of homes dating from before 1919, the stock in Le Lieu renews slowly. Thin new supply supports prices, and it also means the flats reaching the market often need a full technical inspection before any offer.
The average home in Le Lieu has 3.8 rooms for 106 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. Few properties sell in Le Lieu each year, so the figures on this page rest on a small sample. Read them as an order of magnitude, since in a thin market two neighbouring sales can land far apart for no visible reason.
Half the flats sold in Le Lieu went above CHF 5,100 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 35 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. 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. Against the Jura-Nord vaudois district the gap comes to 18 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate, because communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers.
At CHF 6,500 per m² houses outprice flats in Le Lieu by 27 percent. The difference is the plot rather than the build. A house sells with land attached, and where there is little left to build on, the land does the pricing. Up 2.5 percent in a year, Le Lieu 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.
From CHF 3,800 to CHF 8,600 per square metre in 25 years, +126 percent in all. The path was not a straight line, and the flat or falling stretches inside it are precisely what a long average hides. Before you settle on a price in Le Lieu, get a number that reflects your own property rather than the commune. It takes a few minutes, and it changes what you are able to defend in a negotiation.
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 5,100 per m² is the current median for flats in Le Lieu. 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 6,500 per m² in Le Lieu. 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.
34 percent of homes in Le Lieu date from before 1919. That age band sets the technical agenda for a buyer here, since insulation, heating system and windows are what decide running costs for the next twenty years.