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- How can a property in Dinhard be valued with no median at all?
- How low is the tax rate of Dinhard within Winterthur district?
- What reduces the property gains tax on a sale in Dinhard?
- What matters in Dinhard besides the tax rate and the price?
- Is there a value capture levy in Dinhard?
- Estate agent in Dinhard
- Frequently asked questions
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Suppose you compare tax rates in Winterthur district before selling. Together with the canton, Dinhard comes to 185 per cent. Only Brütten and Wiesendangen are lower in the district; the city of Winterthur comes to 220 per cent.
For the price of your house that does not help: there is no official median for Dinhard in 2007, 2015 or 2025. The tax rate only counts afterwards, when you move.
How low is the tax rate of Dinhard within Winterthur district?
Worked example
Worked example, Dinhard: flat at the district median, 10 years of ownership
Assumption: a flat at the median of Winterthur district, bought in 2015 and sold in 2025, without investments or costs. Dinhard itself has no median in any of these years.
- Sale price (district median 2025, provisional)
- CHF 950,000
- Purchase price (district median 2015)
- – CHF 695,000
- Property gain
- CHF 255,000
- Tax per tariff, before reduction
- CHF 91,400
- Reduction for 10 full years: 20%
- – CHF 18,280
- Property gains tax
- CHF 73,120
- Remaining after tax, before mortgage
- CHF 876,880
How can a property in Dinhard be valued with no median at all?
For the land, the canton provides a model. It puts residential building land in Dinhard at CHF 1,053 per square metre for 2025.7 In 2015 it was still CHF 665, a rise of 58.3 per cent in ten years. Typically the model ranges from CHF 731 to CHF 1,512 per square metre. Compared across the 160 municipalities in the canton, 107 sit above it and 52 below.
Another measure is the prices actually paid, but only for the canton as a whole. In 2021 to 2025 residential building land fetched a median of CHF 1,742.7 The two values arise in different ways and only serve as rough orientation; the model value of Dinhard sits below it.
The model only estimates undeveloped land, not your own plot and not the building on it. For a house in Dinhard, the building comes on top, with its age, condition and fit-out. A figure from hearsay is no substitute for that derivation.
How low is the tax rate of Dinhard within Winterthur district?
Dinhard taxes income and wealth at 90 per cent, 185 per cent with the canton.3 In Winterthur district only Brütten (180) and Wiesendangen (181 per cent) are lower, the other 16 higher. Of the 160 municipalities in the canton, 20 are lower, Horgen and Nürensdorf equal, 137 higher.
The gap only counts after the sale. The property gains tax follows a cantonal tariff with no municipal rate. If you then move, you pay income and wealth tax at the new rate. On the same income and wealth, Hagenbuch means about 17 per cent more cantonal and municipal tax. In the city of Winterthur it is about 19 per cent more.
Dinhard has no official sale price figure. In 2025 only 7 houses and 2 flats changed hands, well below 15.2 The Winterthur district flat median rose by 37 per cent, from CHF 695,000 in 2015 to CHF 950,000 in 2025. The tax rate is official; your house value needs its own derivation.
What reduces the property gains tax on a sale in Dinhard?
The tariff is identical throughout the canton; Dinhard only levies it.1 It rises in steps with the gain: 10 per cent on the first CHF 4,000, 40 per cent on the part above CHF 100,000. Ownership works the other way, a 20 per cent reduction in the example after 10 full years.
From 20 full years the reduction is highest, 50 per cent. The same calculation would then give CHF 45,700 tax instead of CHF 73,120.1 Owners of more than 20 years may also use the market value of 20 years ago. Documented value-enhancing investments reduce the gain further; mere maintenance does not.
If you lived in the old home yourself and then buy a new owner-occupied home in Switzerland, the tax can be deferred.10 If it 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.10 And deferred does not mean waived.
| Indicator | Dinhard | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Houses sold on the open market | 7 (no median; 2015: 13, 2007: 1) | 2025 |
| Flats sold on the open market | 2 (no median; 2015: 1, 2007: 6) | 2025 |
| Median flat price, Winterthur district (536 sales) | CHF 950,000 (2015: CHF 695,000) | 2025, provisional |
| Residential building land per m² (cantonal model) | CHF 1,053 (2015: CHF 665) | 2025, provisional |
| Residents, of whom 65 and over | 1,727, of whom 382 (22.1%) | 2025 |
| Tax rate municipal / total, excl. church | 90% / 185% | 2026 |
| Train from Dinhard to Zürich HB | from 41 minutes (S 29, then S 12) | October 2026 timetable |
| Municipal value capture levy | no levy (waiver in revision) | as of October 2026 |
What matters in Dinhard besides the tax rate and the price?
From Dinhard station, on the municipal territory of Dinhard, the S 29 takes you to Winterthur and the S 12 on to Zürich HB, from 41 minutes with one change.5 In Dinhard, 22.1 per cent of the population are 65 or older, 382 of 1,727 people; 6.5 per cent are 80 or older.4
The purchase contract in Dinhard is notarised by the notary, land registry and bankruptcy office of Oberwinterthur-Winterthur, Stadthausstrasse 12, 8400 Winterthur.11 More in the guide Notary and land registry.
Is there a value capture levy in Dinhard?
Dinhard charges no municipal value capture levy today. The building and zoning regulations of 2015 contain no article on this.6 A partial revision of the land-use plan explicitly provides for a waiver: no levy is to be charged on planning gains from upzoning or rezoning.9 According to the plan documents, the municipal assembly adopted it on 17 November 2025; no approval by the cantonal building department is entered there. In October 2026 the cantonal overview listed the proposal as pre-reviewed. The current status is confirmed by the building authority.
The cantonal levy remains unaffected. If land is newly zoned for building, the canton charges 20 per cent of the increase in value, small gains 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 low tax rate alone is not a valuation. I derive the value of your house or flat via the district and the land and calculate, with your purchase date, what remains after tax.
Prefer to talk? +41 76 325 11 95 – you speak directly with Dominik Devaja.
Estate agent in Dinhard
Selling in Dinhard with Immosmile: four phases, one contact person
I support sales throughout the Canton of Zurich, including Dinhard. 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 Dinhard worth?
What else do owners in Dinhard ask?
How do I find the right estate agent in Dinhard?
Ask how anyone derives the value of a house for which the statistics have no comparison figure. I handle sales across the whole Canton of Zurich. Make sure land and district value are derived separately 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 Dinhard?
The inheritance itself does not trigger property gains tax. On a later sale, the purchase price and purchase date of the deceased person generally count. What else applies when inheriting is explained on the inheritance page.
Will selling in Dinhard cost me a value capture levy?
Not today: Dinhard charges no levy of its own; the 2015 regulations contain no article on this. The 2025 partial revision explicitly provides for a waiver. If land was newly zoned for building, the canton charges its own levy of 20 per cent of the increase in value, small gains exempt. 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: Dinhard – Zürich HB (S 29, then S 12), fastest connection departing 09:00–09:59 · 2026 timetable, queried 23.10.2026 for 27 and 29.10.2026
- Municipality of Dinhard: building and zoning regulations in force (2015, no article on value capture), in German · 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
- Municipality of Dinhard: partial revision of the land-use plan, plan documents and explanatory report (chapter 3.3 value capture, art. 2 «waiver of a value capture levy»), in German · adopted by the municipal assembly on 17.11.2025 according to the plan documents, 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 Oberwinterthur-Winterthur (responsible for Dinhard), 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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