Lovatens is a tiny farming village in the hills near Lucens, in the Broye-Vully district, made up mostly of older buildings.
Lovatens prices below the Vaud median, at CHF 5,800 per m². For a buyer that widens what one budget covers, often by a room or by a plot. For a seller it means the surrounding communes set the ceiling. The largest band in Lovatens is before 1919, at 69 percent of homes. Buildings of that age were rarely insulated when built, so running costs and the cost of the works belong in the price you offer, not in a list for later. Average size in Lovatens is 113 m² across 4.4 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre, because an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate and a small one often beats it.
Sales are sparse in Lovatens, which makes any commune-level figure less certain. A property here is better valued on its own characteristics and on sales in the neighbouring communes than on a local median built from a handful of deeds. CHF 5,800 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Lovatens, 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.
A gap of 27 percent against Vaud means the same budget buys noticeably more surface here. It also means resale leans on demand spilling over from the pricier communes next door, which comes and goes with the cycle. Against the Broye-Vully district the gap comes to 5 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.
Flats in Lovatens cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 5,800 against CHF 4,900. That points to a compact, well-served centre where small units are in demand, while the houses that sold sit further out on larger plots. Up 3.4 percent in a year, Lovatens 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. The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,900 and closes at CHF 7,700, +97 percent apart. Use it to sanity-check an estimate rather than to project forward, since nothing in the series promises the next decade repeats it.
Lower prices in Lovatens do not make a valuation easier. The spread between properties is often wider here than in an expensive commune, which makes the commune average a weak guide to what yours is worth.
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 →The median flat in Lovatens is priced at CHF 5,800 per m². That puts the commune 27 percent from the Vaud median, a gap explained in part by the age of the local stock and in part by how little land is left to build on.
Count on roughly CHF 4,900 per m² for a house in Lovatens. 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.
69 percent of homes in Lovatens 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.