Despite the name, Provence is a Jura village through and through, set on high ground above Concise and Lake Neuchâtel.
At CHF 5,000 per m² for a flat, Provence is one of the cheaper places to buy in Vaud. Lower entry prices normally come with a longer commute or an older building, and one of the two usually explains the discount. 59 percent of the housing in Provence dates from before 1919. Older stock buys you volume and detail, and hands you the bill for it. Roof, heating and windows come round, and thermal performance is the first thing a valuer marks down.
At 3.4 rooms and 94 m² on average, homes in Provence 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 Provence 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.
CHF 5,000 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Provence, 37 percent from Vaud. Take it as a starting point. In a commune this size, the spread between the cheapest and the dearest street is often wider than the gap to the canton. 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. Provence comes out 19 percent from the Jura-Nord vaudois median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it.
At CHF 5,300 per m² houses outprice flats in Provence by 6 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. Up 3.5 percent in a year, Provence 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.
The 25-year record opens at CHF 3,300 and closes at CHF 7,100, +115 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. In Provence the local price per m² is a floor, not an answer. What your property adds to it, or takes away from it, depends on its condition, its plot and its access to public transport.
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 →CHF 5,000 per m² is the current median for flats in Provence. It covers every sale, new and old, so a renovated flat sits above that line and one still needing works sits below it.
Houses in Provence are valued around CHF 5,300 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 Provence is before 1919, which covers 59 percent of homes. Average size runs to 3.4 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.