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- How small is the property market in Dänikon?
- What does the land model show in Dänikon when the market is otherwise so small?
- What reduces the property gains tax on a sale in Dänikon?
- What matters in Dänikon besides the price?
- Is there a value capture levy in Dänikon?
- Estate agent in Dänikon
- Frequently asked questions
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Suppose you search the cantonal statistics for open-market sales in Dänikon in 2015. You find exactly one house. For condominiums that year, there was only one as well.
That is not enough for a comparison. Add a building code from 2009, older than the cantonal value capture act itself, and one of the highest tax rates in the canton.
How small is the property market in Dänikon?
Worked example
Worked example, Dänikon: flat at the district median, 10 years of ownership
Assumption: a flat at the median of Dielsdorf district, bought in 2015 and sold in 2025, without investments or costs. Dänikon itself has no median in any of these years.
- Sale price (district median 2025, provisional)
- CHF 920,000
- Purchase price (district median 2015)
- – CHF 690,000
- Property gain
- CHF 230,000
- Tax per tariff, before reduction
- CHF 81,400
- Reduction for 10 full years: 20%
- – CHF 16,280
- Property gains tax
- CHF 65,120
- Remaining after tax, before mortgage
- CHF 854,880
How small is the property market in Dänikon?
So small that in some years hardly a house or flat is sold on the open market. In 2015 exactly 1 house changed hands, in 2025 it was 6, in 2007 as many as 8.2 For condominiums, 2015 and 2025 each saw only 1 sale, 2007 at least 3. The canton needs at least 15 sales a year for an official median; Dänikon stays far below that in all three years.
Dielsdorf district, to which Dänikon belongs, has enough sales for its own median. In 2025, 193 condominiums changed hands there, at a median of CHF 920,000. In 2015 it was 303 sales, at a median of CHF 690,000.2 The Furttal planning region, which includes Dänikon, shows a 2025 house median of CHF 1,400,000, up 35 per cent since 2015.
Neither figure is a price for your own property in Dänikon. What this means for you: with so few sales in the village itself, the valuation must start from the property, not from a statistical figure.
What does the land model show in Dänikon when the market is otherwise so small?
A figure recalculated every year, independent of individual sales. The cantonal model puts residential building land in Dänikon at CHF 1,596 per square metre for 2025. In 2015 it was CHF 950.7 That is a rise of 68 per cent in ten years. Typically the model ranges from CHF 1,109 to CHF 2,283 per square metre.
For the canton as a whole there is a second measure. Residential building land actually sold for a median of CHF 1,742 in 2021 to 2025.7 Model value and sale price are produced in different ways. With its model value, Dänikon stays CHF 146 below it.
The model only estimates undeveloped land, not your own plot and not the building on it. For a house in Dänikon, the building comes on top, with its age, condition and fit-out. Where comparable sales barely exist, your own documents on plot and building carry the valuation.
What reduces the property gains tax on a sale in Dänikon?
The tariff is the same throughout the canton. Dänikon only levies the tax.1 It rises in steps. The first CHF 4,000 are taxed at 10 per cent, parts above CHF 100,000 at 40 per cent. Ownership then brings a reduction, 20 per cent in the example after 10 full years.
From 20 full years the reduction is highest, 50 per cent. In the example, CHF 40,700 would then be due instead of CHF 65,120.1 For a purchase over 20 years ago, the market value of 20 years ago may also count. Documented value-enhancing investments reduce the gain further; maintenance alone does not.
Buy a new home to live in, and the tax can be deferred. You must have lived in the old home yourself and replace it in Switzerland.1 If the new home costs less than the proceeds, the difference is taxable at once. If it costs no more than the old purchase price and investments, nothing is deferred.9 And deferred does not mean waived.
| Indicator | Dänikon | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Houses sold on the open market | 6 (no median; 2015: 1, 2007: 8) | 2025 |
| Flats sold on the open market | 1 (no median; 2015: 1, 2007: 3) | 2025 |
| Median flat price, Dielsdorf district (193 sales) | CHF 920,000 (2015: CHF 690,000) | 2025, provisional |
| Residential building land per m² (cantonal model) | CHF 1,596 (2015: CHF 950) | 2025, provisional |
| Residents, of whom 65 and over | 1,849, of whom 328 (17.7%) | 2025 |
| Tax rate municipal / total, excl. church | 120% / 215% | 2026 |
| Bus and train to Zürich HB | from 35 minutes (bus 491, then S 6) | October 2026 timetable |
| Municipal value capture levy | no article (no levy) | regulations of 19.03.2009 |
What matters in Dänikon besides the price?
From the stop Dänikon, Gemeindehaus, bus 491 runs to Regensdorf-Watt; there you change to the S 6 for Zürich HB, from 35 minutes.5 Dänikon has no station of its own; every stop in the village is a bus stop. In Dänikon, 17.7 per cent of the population are 65 or older, 328 of 1,849 people; 3.1 per cent are 80 or older.4
Dänikon taxes income and wealth at 120 per cent, 215 per cent together with the canton.3 Only 12 of the 160 municipalities in the canton have a higher rate, 3 the same, and in 144 it is lower. In Boppelsen you would pay about 12 per cent less cantonal and municipal tax on the same income and wealth, in Hüttikon about 3 per cent less.
The purchase contract in Dänikon is notarised by the notary, land registry and bankruptcy office of Dielsdorf, Wehntalerstrasse 40, 8157 Dielsdorf.10 More in the guide Notary and land registry.
Is there a value capture levy in Dänikon?
Dänikon charges no municipal value capture levy. Its building and zoning regulations date from 19 March 2009, checked in full across all 18 pages, and contain no value capture article.6 The cantonal value capture act only took effect on 1 January 2021, almost twelve years later. In its overview, the canton lists Dänikon as a waiver.
The cantonal levy remains regardless. If land is newly zoned for building, the canton charges its own levy of 20 per cent of the increase in value; small gains are exempt.8 The same applies when a zone for public buildings is rezoned. With new zoning, the levy falls due as soon as a sale takes place, so it belongs in the purchase contract. Background is in the guide value capture levy.
A market with almost no sales is no reason for a figure from the gut. I calculate land, district value and building separately and show what remains after tax.
Prefer to talk? +41 76 325 11 95 – you speak directly with Dominik Devaja.
Estate agent in Dänikon
Selling in Dänikon with Immosmile: four phases, one contact person
I support sales throughout the Canton of Zurich, including Dänikon. Through all four phases you have one contact person: me, Dominik Devaja, managing director of Immosmile. You pay nothing beforehand. Our fee falls due only when you sign the contract at the notary (Beurkundung).
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Clarity
Independent valuation, net calculation after taxes and costs, a look at what comes after. You decide on figures, not on hearsay.
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Preview
Before anyone sees your house, film, photography and exposé are produced. Then we show it to vetted buyers first – not yet on the portals.
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Market decision
You receive the demand report and every offer immediately. Then you choose the path to the best price: accept, bidding round – or the broad public phase on the portals, the normal case.
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Completion & move
Notary appointment, key handover, documents for what comes after – and, if you wish, guidance into your next home. Our fee only falls due now, with the notarised deed.
The full process in detail What is your property in Dänikon worth?
What else do owners in Dänikon ask?
How do I find the right estate agent in Dänikon?
Ask how anyone arrives at a figure when the village hardly delivers any sales. I handle sales across the whole Canton of Zurich. With so few comparable sales, what counts is whether land, district value and building are clearly separated and the tax is calculated with your purchase date. A list for the first meeting: the 12 checking questions.
Which purchase price counts if I inherited the house in Dänikon?
An inheritance itself does not trigger property gains tax. On a later sale, you generally take over the purchase price and purchase date of the deceased person as your starting value. More on the inheritance page.
Will selling in Dänikon cost me a value capture levy?
No municipal levy; Dänikon has no such article in its building regulations. If land was newly zoned for building or a zone for public buildings was rezoned, the canton charges its levy of 20 per cent of the increase in value, small gains exempt. With new zoning, it falls due with the building permit or as early as the sale.
Sources
- Tax Act of the Canton of Zurich (StG ZH, LS 631.1), §§ 205, 216(3)(i), 219, 220(2), 221, 225, 226 (Nachtrag 132), in German · as of 1.4.2026, retrieved 23.10.2026
- Canton of Zurich, Office for Statistics and Data: Freihandverkäufe von Immobilien inkl. Medianpreisen seit 2007 (KTZH_00000077) · data as of 2025/Q4, 2023–2025 values provisional, retrieved 23.10.2026
- Canton of Zurich, Statistical Office: municipal tax rates 2026, in German · as of 24.03.2026, final
- Canton of Zurich, Statistical Office: population by municipality and age (KTZH_00000254) · year 2025, retrieved 23.10.2026
- SBB online timetable: Dänikon, Gemeindehaus – Zürich HB (bus 491, then S 6), fastest connection departing 09:00–09:59 · 2026 timetable, queried 23.10.2026 for 27 and 29.10.2026
- Municipality of Dänikon: building and zoning regulations, in German · dated 19.03.2009, retrieved 23.10.2026
- Canton of Zurich, Office for Statistics and Data: property prices in the Canton of Zurich (KTZH_00003158), residential building land, model value per municipality, in German · data as of 2025/Q4, 2022–2025 values provisional, retrieved 23.10.2026
- Value Capture Act of the Canton of Zurich (MAG, LS 700.9), §§ 2, 4, 10, 19, in German · retrieved 23.10.2026
- Cantonal Tax Office Zurich: Zurich tax manual no. 216.3, replacement purchase, paras 19–25, in German · as of 1.2.2018, retrieved 23.10.2026
- Notary offices of the Canton of Zurich: notary, land registry and bankruptcy office of Dielsdorf (responsible for Dänikon), in German · retrieved 23.10.2026
- Government Council, Canton of Zurich: RRB No. 42/2026, cantonal tax rate 2026 (95%), in German · dated 14.01.2026
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