On the La Côte wine-growing plateau above Aubonne, Yens cultivates a village setting between vines and lake.
Yens tracks Vaud closely, at CHF 9,700 per m² for a flat. Communes in this band are the easiest to value: enough sales to anchor a price, and no local anomaly pulling the figures around. Paying 5 percent more than the cantonal median buys location, not floor space. The same budget moved to a neighbouring commune would typically add a room, and that is the trade most buyers here have already made.
Yens ranks 55 out of 132 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. Houses carry a premium of 13 percent per square metre over flats in Yens, CHF 11,000 against CHF 9,700. Households buying a house here are mostly trading up from a flat nearby, so demand holds even when volumes drop.
Up 2.6 percent in a year, Yens 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. The district test is the harder one. Yens comes out 1 percent from the Morges median, measured against communes competing for the same buyers rather than against a whole canton with several markets in it. 2011-2015 accounts for 17 percent of homes in Yens, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune: two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone.
The average home in Yens has 4.0 rooms for 136 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. The median flat in Yens comes out at CHF 9,700 per m², a gap of 5 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.
From CHF 3,800 to CHF 9,200 per square metre in 25 years, +142 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. Enough properties change hands in Yens 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.
Knowing the median in Yens gets you halfway. The second half is what separates your property from that median: condition, orientation, outside space, parking, and the works still to be done.
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 Yens is priced at CHF 9,700 per m². That puts the commune 5 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.
Houses in Yens are valued around CHF 11,000 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.
The dominant band in Yens is 2011-2015, which covers 17 percent of homes. Average size runs to 4.0 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.