Between lake and vineyards, Montreux and its famous quays embody the Vaud Riviera and attract a clientele that is as local as it is international.
At CHF 10,600 per m² for a flat, Montreux sits in the upper band of the Vaud market. That level usually goes with scarce building land and few sales, so a valuation rests on a thin set of comparables. Paying 15 percent more than the cantonal median buys location, not floor space. The same budget moved to a neighbouring commune would typically add a room, and that is the trade most buyers here have already made. Montreux ranks 37 out of 132 communes in Vaud on flat prices per m². Rankings shift a place or two from one year to the next without anything real changing, so read the band rather than the exact position.
The last twelve months added 2.7 percent in Montreux. 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. Montreux comes out 3 percent from the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it.
With 31 percent of homes dating from before 1919, the stock in Montreux 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. Average size in Montreux is 88 m² across 3.2 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre: an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate, and a small one often beats it.
The median flat in Montreux comes out at CHF 10,600 per m², a gap of 15 percent against the Vaud median. That figure covers every flat sold, whatever the floor, the age of the building or the state of the kitchen. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,600 to CHF 9,300 per m², a change of +158 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Transaction volume in Montreux 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.
The figures above describe Montreux, not your property. At this end of the market the distance between the two is where the negotiation happens, so start from a valuation that takes your own characteristics as its input.
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 10,600 per m² is the current median for flats in Montreux. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
The reference is CHF 10,600 per m² in Montreux. 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.
Homes in Montreux average 3.2 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 31 percent. The mix means condition varies a lot from one building to the next, and condition is what pulls two similar flats apart on price.