Selling property in Feuerthalen: a median in 2015, none in 2025

The canton only publishes a median from 15 open-market sales a year. For houses, Feuerthalen reached that in none of the three reference years. 12 changed hands in 2025, 8 in 2015 and 8 in 2007 as well.

For flats the number was above the threshold in two of the three reference years. In 2015 there were 18 sales, at a median of CHF 624,000.² In 2007 it was 16 sales. In 2025 there were only 9, too few for a figure of its own.

What this means for you: the market has not vanished, only the 2025 sample is too small. A figure heard in the village is no substitute for the missing statistic. The 2015 flat median shows the level back then, not the price of your own house or flat today. A reliable assessment needs location, plot and building derived separately, backed by comparable properties from the district.

A second official anchor, independent of the number of sales. The cantonal model puts residential building land in Feuerthalen at CHF 998 per square metre for 2025.⁷ In 2015 it was still CHF 546, a rise of 82.8 per cent in ten years. Typically the model ranges from CHF 700 to CHF 1,406 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 between 2021 and 2025, up from CHF 800 in 2011 to 2015.⁷ Model value and sale price are produced in different ways. On its model value, Feuerthalen sits well below the cantonal figure for 2021 to 2025.

The model only estimates undeveloped land, not your own plot and not the building on it. For a house in Feuerthalen, the building comes on top, with its age, condition and fit-out. Both can be derived separately and backed up with documents, whether or not the median happens to reach the threshold.

Feuerthalen applies the same cantonal tariff as every municipality; only the levying is local.¹ It climbs in steps as the gain grows: 10 per cent on the first CHF 4,000, 40 per cent on the part above CHF 100,000. A long holding period works against that, 20 per cent off in the example after 10 full years.

From 20 full years the reduction reaches its maximum of 50 per cent, CHF 46,500 instead of CHF 74,400 in the example.¹ Past 20 years, the market value of 20 years ago may replace the purchase price. Documented value-enhancing investments also lower the gain; maintenance does not.

A replacement purchase allows a deferral. Buy another owner-occupied home in Switzerland with the proceeds, and the tax can be deferred.¹ You must have lived in the old property yourself. A cheaper replacement means the difference is taxed at once. One no dearer than the old purchase price plus investments removes the deferral entirely.¹⁰ Deferred is not the same as waived.