Between Orbe and Baulmes, Rances is a farming village on the slope climbing towards Mont Suchet in the Jura-Nord vaudois district.
Rances prices below the Vaud median, at CHF 5,800 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 27 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. Position 237 of 272 in Vaud puts Rances among communes with similar price levels and often very different housing stock. Two communes can share a rank and still value the same flat differently once age and condition are taken in.
Houses carry a premium of 9 percent per square metre over flats in Rances, CHF 6,300 against CHF 5,800. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop. Up 2.2 percent in a year, Rances 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 district test is the harder one. Rances comes out 6 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. The largest band in Rances is before 1919, at 43 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 Rances has 4.0 rooms for 124 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. The median flat in Rances comes out at CHF 5,800 per m², a gap of 27 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. From CHF 4,100 to CHF 8,800 per square metre in 25 years, +115 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.
Enough properties change hands in Rances each year to keep the price data steady. Estimates land in a narrower range here, and a valuation can lean on recent comparable sales instead of falling back on the cantonal average. In Rances 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 5,800 per m² is the current median for flats in Rances. 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 6,300 per m² for a house in Rances. 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 Rances is before 1919, which covers 43 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.0 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.