Overlooked by its medieval castle on the banks of the Broye, Lucens combines a historic bourg with rural villages to the south of Moudon.
Lucens prices below the Vaud median, at CHF 6,100 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. 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.
Position 122 of 132 in Vaud puts Lucens 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. At CHF 6,600 per m² houses outprice flats in Lucens by 8 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.
The last twelve months added 3.4 percent in Lucens. 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. The district test is the harder one. Lucens comes out 5 percent from the Broye-Vully median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. With 29 percent of homes dating from before 1919, the stock in Lucens 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 Lucens has 3.5 rooms for 95 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. Half the flats sold in Lucens went above CHF 6,100 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 34 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average.
The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,900 and closes at CHF 7,900, +103 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. Enough properties change hands in Lucens each year to keep the price data steady. Estimates land in a narrower range here, and a valuation can lean on recent comparable sales instead of falling back on the cantonal average. Before you settle on a price in Lucens, 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 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 6,100 per m² for a flat, which is 34 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 6,600 per m² in Lucens. 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 Lucens is before 1919, which covers 29 percent of homes. Average size runs to 3.5 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.