A Jura resort above Nyon, Saint-Cergue combines chalets, forests and panoramas over Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc.
At CHF 6,700 per m² for a flat, Saint-Cergue 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. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Vaud reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery.
Position 111 of 132 in Vaud puts Saint-Cergue 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. At CHF 7,100 per m² houses outprice flats in Saint-Cergue 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.
Flat prices in Saint-Cergue are up 2.7 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. Within the Nyon district, Saint-Cergue lands 37 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. No single period defines Saint-Cergue, though 1961-1970 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.
Average size in Saint-Cergue is 91 m² across 3.5 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre: an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate, and a small one often beats it. The median flat in Saint-Cergue comes out at CHF 6,700 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.
Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,900 to CHF 9,000 per m², a change of +131 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Transaction volume in Saint-Cergue is high enough that one unusual sale does not distort the medians. That matters, because thin markets are where automated estimates go furthest wrong and where a local opinion earns its keep.
Lower prices in Saint-Cergue do not make a valuation easier. The spread between properties is often wider here than in an expensive commune, which makes the commune average a weak guide to what yours is worth.
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 Saint-Cergue is priced at CHF 6,700 per m². That puts the commune 27 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 7,100 per m² for a house in Saint-Cergue. 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 Saint-Cergue is 1961-1970, which covers 19 percent of homes. Average size runs to 3.5 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.