Selling property in Dorf: an outdated map, a clear waiver

For Dorf, the cantonal model gives CHF 729 per square metre of residential building land in 2025.⁸ In 2015 the figure was CHF 551. Over ten years the model has thus risen by 32.3 per cent. Its typical range is CHF 513 to CHF 1,032.

For the canton as a whole there are also prices actually paid. Their median for residential building land was CHF 1,742 per square metre in 2021 to 2025.⁸ A model and a median of prices paid can only be compared roughly, as they are produced in different ways. At CHF 729, Dorf is clearly below.

For a house in Dorf, the land is only part of the calculation. The model estimates undeveloped land, not your plot with its location and zone. On top comes the building, valued by age, condition and fit-out. There is no official house price per square metre of land for Dorf, again for lack of sales. Plot and building can still be derived and documented separately.

In 2025, 11 houses in Dorf were sold on the open market; in 2015 it was one, in 2007 it was 2.² That is more than in the two earlier reference years, but still below the 15 sales from which the canton reports a median. For condominiums there were three in 2025 and one each in 2015 and 2007.

Andelfingen district serves as the surroundings. A flat there cost a median of CHF 900,000 in 2025, from 129 sales. Ten years earlier the median was CHF 641,000, from 100 sales; that is an increase of 40 per cent.² The Weinland planning region shows the same figures as the district.

The district house median for 2025 was CHF 1,273,600, from 143 sales. These figures mix sales from across the district. Whether the 11 sales in Dorf were above or below, the statistics do not reveal. For your house, your own derivation is what counts.

In Dorf the tax follows the cantonal tariff; the municipality levies it.¹ The rate grows in steps with the gain. It runs from 10 per cent on the first CHF 4,000 to 40 per cent on the part above CHF 100,000. In the example: CHF 93,000 before any reduction.

Ten full years of ownership take 20 per cent off, leaving CHF 74,400. From 20 full years it is 50 per cent, or CHF 46,500. If the purchase was over 20 years ago, the market value of 20 years ago may serve as the starting value. Documented value-enhancing investments reduce the gain; plain maintenance does not.

A deferral is possible if you lived in the old home yourself and buy another one in Switzerland to live in.¹ If the new one is cheaper than the proceeds, the difference is taxed at once. If it costs no more than the old one did, investments included, nothing can be deferred.¹⁰ Deferred does not mean waived.