A vast farming commune of the Gros-de-Vaud, Montanaire brings together a dozen villages around Thierrens.
Montanaire prices below the Vaud median, at CHF 5,700 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. A gap of 38 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. Out of 132 communes measured in Vaud, Montanaire sits at position 127. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average.
A house in Montanaire is valued around CHF 6,500 per m² against CHF 5,700 for a flat, a gap of 14 percent. Land is what separates the two figures, and the scarcer the building plots, the wider that gap runs. The last twelve months added 3.2 percent in Montanaire. 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.
Against the Gros-de-Vaud district the gap comes to 30 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate: communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. The largest band in Montanaire is before 1919, at 40 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.
The average home in Montanaire has 4.1 rooms for 119 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 Montanaire went above CHF 5,700 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 38 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,600 to CHF 8,300 per m², a change of +131 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Transaction volume in Montanaire is high enough that one unusual sale does not distort the medians. That matters, because thin markets are where automated estimates go furthest wrong and where a local opinion earns its keep. Lower prices in Montanaire 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 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 →CHF 5,700 per m² is the current median for flats in Montanaire. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Count on roughly CHF 6,500 per m² for a house in Montanaire. 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.
The dominant band in Montanaire is before 1919, which covers 40 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.