The heart of the western Lausanne area, Renens is undergoing a deep transformation around its station, one of the busiest in French-speaking Switzerland.
At CHF 10,400 per m² for a flat, Renens 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. The premium over Vaud has a practical effect at resale. Buyers arriving from cheaper communes negotiate hard on condition, because they are already stretched on the price per square metre before they walk in.
Position 46 of 132 in Vaud puts Renens 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. Flats in Renens cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 10,400 against CHF 9,800. That points to a compact, well-served centre where small units are in demand, while the houses that sold sit further out on larger plots.
Flat prices in Renens are up 3.2 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window: measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction. Against the l'Ouest lausannois 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. No single period defines Renens, though 1946-1960 leads with 19 percent. That mix works in a buyer's favour, since you can choose between period character and low running costs without leaving the commune.
The average home in Renens has 2.9 rooms for 70 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 Renens comes out at CHF 10,400 per m², a gap of 13 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 3,800 to CHF 9,800 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. Enough properties change hands in Renens 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.
The figures above describe Renens, 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 →The median flat in Renens is priced at CHF 10,400 per m². That puts the commune 13 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.
Count on roughly CHF 9,800 per m² for a house in Renens. 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.
19 percent of homes in Renens date from 1946-1960. That age band sets the technical agenda for a buyer here, since insulation, heating system and windows are what decide running costs for the next twenty years.