Close to Oron, Maracon is a farming village in the uplands of the Lavaux-Oron district, mostly made up of older buildings.
Flats in Maracon trade around CHF 5,900 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. The largest band in Maracon is before 1919, at 38 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.
At 4.3 rooms and 124 m² on average, homes in Maracon 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 Maracon 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.
Half the flats sold in Maracon went above CHF 5,900 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 25 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. The district test is the harder one. Maracon comes out 40 percent from the Lavaux-Oron median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it.
Houses carry a premium of 20 percent per square metre over flats in Maracon, CHF 7,100 against CHF 5,900. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. Up 3.0 percent in a year, Maracon 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 7,600 per square metre in 25 years, +100 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 Maracon, 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 →The median flat in Maracon is priced at CHF 5,900 per m². That puts the commune 25 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.
Houses in Maracon are valued around CHF 7,100 per m² of living space. The plot weighs heavily on that figure, so two houses of identical size can be far apart in price if one has land around it and the other has none.
The dominant band in Maracon is before 1919, which covers 38 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.3 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.