A small town of the Nord vaudois perched on its hill, Orbe watches over its Roman mosaics and a property market in full awakening.
Flats in Orbe trade around CHF 7,300 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. A gap of 21 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.
Orbe ranks 98 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 2.3 percent in Orbe. 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 Jura-Nord vaudois district the gap comes to 7 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. before 1919 accounts for 18 percent of homes in Orbe, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune: two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone. The average home in Orbe has 3.3 rooms for 90 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 Orbe went above CHF 7,300 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 21 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 4,100 and closes at CHF 8,300, +102 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.
Orbe turns over enough stock to give a reliable read. The practical benefit shows at negotiation, where both sides can point to comparable sales from the same year, which shortens the distance between asking price and signature. Before you settle on a price in Orbe, 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 →The median flat in Orbe is priced at CHF 7,300 per m². That puts the commune 21 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.
The reference is CHF 7,400 per m² in Orbe. 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 Orbe average 3.3 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 18 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.