Villars-Sainte-Croix belongs to the western Lausanne district, between Bussigny and Crissier, a village that has stayed small in a heavily built-up area.
Buying in Villars-Sainte-Croix means paying more per square metre than almost anywhere in Vaud, at CHF 10,000 for a flat. The gap holds even on older stock, so renovation work rarely comes off the asking price the way it does elsewhere. 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 64 of 272 in Vaud puts Villars-Sainte-Croix 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.
Per square metre, a flat in Villars-Sainte-Croix at CHF 10,000 costs more than a house at CHF 9,500. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for (corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves). Flat prices in Villars-Sainte-Croix are up 2.3 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window, so measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction.
The district test is the harder one. Villars-Sainte-Croix comes out 11 percent from the l'Ouest lausannois median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. 1971-1980 accounts for 25 percent of homes in Villars-Sainte-Croix, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune, where two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone.
The average home in Villars-Sainte-Croix has 3.9 rooms for 113 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. Half the flats sold in Villars-Sainte-Croix went above CHF 10,000 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 27 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 4,000 to CHF 9,900 per m², a change of +148 percent. That is the market, not your property. A flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Enough properties change hands in Villars-Sainte-Croix 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 Villars-Sainte-Croix, 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 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 →Around CHF 10,000 per m² for a flat, which is 27 percent from the Vaud median. Houses are priced separately and usually land somewhere else entirely, so work from the figure that matches your property type.
Houses in Villars-Sainte-Croix are valued around CHF 9,500 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 Villars-Sainte-Croix average 3.9 rooms, with 1971-1980 the most common construction period at 25 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.