Ursins is a small farming village south of Yverdon-les-Bains, on the plateau between Vuarrens and Chavornay, where most of the houses are old.
At CHF 5,900 per m² for a flat, Ursins 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. 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.
Position 232 of 272 in Vaud puts Ursins 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 7 percent per square metre over flats in Ursins, CHF 6,300 against CHF 5,900. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop.
Up 2.4 percent in a year, Ursins 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. Against the Jura-Nord vaudois district the gap comes to 5 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate, because communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. 44 percent of the housing in Ursins 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.
Average size in Ursins is 138 m² across 4.6 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre, because an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate and a small one often beats it. The median flat in Ursins comes out at CHF 5,900 per m², a gap of 25 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 4,700 to CHF 10,100 per m², a change of +115 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely. Transaction volume in Ursins 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 Ursins 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 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 5,900 per m² is the current median for flats in Ursins. 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 Ursins. 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.
44 percent of homes in Ursins date from before 1919. 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.