Selling property in Hagenbuch: no median, but a high tax rate

Through the land, as a first step. The cantonal model puts residential building land in Hagenbuch at CHF 687 per square metre for 2025.⁷ In 2015 it was still CHF 523, a rise of 31.4 per cent in ten years. Typically the model ranges from CHF 479 to CHF 975 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 The two figures are produced in different ways and only serve as rough orientation. Hagenbuch's model value sits well below it.

The model only estimates undeveloped land, not your own plot and not the building on it. For a house in Hagenbuch, the building comes on top, with its age, condition and fit-out. Both can be derived separately and backed up with documents. A price someone heard in the village is no substitute for that derivation.

The district of Winterthur, to which Hagenbuch belongs, has enough sales for an official median. In 2025, 536 condominiums changed hands there, at a median of CHF 950,000.² In 2015 it was 413 sales. The median then was CHF 695,000, a rise of 37 per cent in ten years.

A district median is not a price for a flat in Hagenbuch itself, though. It mixes sales from across the district, from the city of Winterthur to smaller villages. Which flats changed hands in 2025, and exactly where, the statistics do not reveal.

The same picture holds for houses. In 2025 a house in Winterthur district cost a median of CHF 1,330,000, from 309 sales.² What this means for you: the district figure shows the direction, not your price. A figure that fits your own house needs location, plot and building derived separately.

The tariff is the same throughout the canton; Hagenbuch 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 45,700 would then be due instead of CHF 73,120.¹ For a purchase over 20 years ago, the market value of 20 years ago may also count. Documented value-enhancing investments reduce the gain; ordinary maintenance 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.¹⁰ And deferred does not mean waived.