Between Yens and Etoy, Villars-sous-Yens lies in the countryside behind La Côte, above Saint-Prex, where newer housing has grown up around the farms.
Flats in Villars-sous-Yens change hands around CHF 9,100 per m², well above what the rest of Vaud pays. The premium is priced into the land more than into the building, which is why two similar houses here can be valued very differently. A gap of 15 percent over the Vaud median is not statistical noise. It measures what buyers accept to pay for the location itself, and it holds through the cycle instead of appearing in one strong year. Villars-sous-Yens ranks 95 out of 272 communes in Vaud on flat prices per m². Rankings shift a place or two from one year to the next without anything real changing, so read the band rather than the exact position.
Flats in Villars-sous-Yens cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 9,100 against CHF 8,600. 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 Villars-sous-Yens are up 2.5 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.
Against the Morges district the gap comes to 2 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. No single period defines Villars-sous-Yens, though before 1919 leads with 29 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 Villars-sous-Yens has 4.1 rooms for 124 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. CHF 9,100 per m² is the working reference for a flat in Villars-sous-Yens, 15 percent from Vaud. Take it as a starting point. In a commune this size, the spread between the cheapest and the dearest street is often wider than the gap to the canton. From CHF 3,800 to CHF 10,000 per square metre in 25 years, +163 percent in all. The path was not a straight line, and the flat or falling stretches inside it are precisely what a long average hides.
Transaction volume in Villars-sous-Yens 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. In Villars-sous-Yens the difference between two flats on the same street can run into six figures. Getting your own number, rather than reading the commune median, is what makes that difference visible before you set a price.
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 →The median flat in Villars-sous-Yens is priced at CHF 9,100 per m². That puts the commune 15 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 8,600 per m² for a house in Villars-sous-Yens. 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.
Homes in Villars-sous-Yens average 4.1 rooms, with before 1919 the most common construction period at 29 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.