Lignerolle sits on the Jura slope above Orbe, next to Ballaigues, with recent housing added to its older core.
At CHF 5,300 per m² for a flat, Lignerolle 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. before 1919 accounts for 31 percent of homes in Lignerolle, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune, where two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone. The average home in Lignerolle has 4.1 rooms for 120 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 Lignerolle 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 Lignerolle went above CHF 5,300 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 33 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average.
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. Within the Jura-Nord vaudois district, Lignerolle lands 15 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.
Per square metre, a flat in Lignerolle at CHF 5,300 costs more than a house at CHF 5,000. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for (corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves). Up 2.5 percent in a year, Lignerolle 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 4,700 to CHF 9,000 per square metre in 25 years, +91 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.
In Lignerolle 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 →Around CHF 5,300 per m² for a flat, which is 33 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.
The reference is CHF 5,000 per m² in Lignerolle. 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 Lignerolle is before 1919, which covers 31 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.1 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.