Rovray is a small farming municipality south of Yvonand, towards Valbroye, in field country where older buildings make up most of the village.
At CHF 6,600 per m² for a flat, Rovray 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. 43 percent of the housing in Rovray 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.
The average home in Rovray has 4.2 rooms for 130 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. Few properties sell in Rovray each year, so the figures on this page rest on a small sample. Read them as an order of magnitude, since in a thin market two neighbouring sales can land far apart for no visible reason.
Half the flats sold in Rovray went above CHF 6,600 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 16 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. 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. Within the Jura-Nord vaudois district, Rovray lands 6 percent from the local median. A cantonal average mixes city and countryside, so it flatters some communes and penalises others. The district figure removes most of that distortion.
Flats in Rovray cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 6,600 against CHF 5,700. 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. Before you settle on a price in Rovray, 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 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 6,600 per m² is the current median for flats in Rovray. 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 Rovray are valued around CHF 5,700 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.
Homes in Rovray average 4.2 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 43 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.