Selling property in Hittnau: a median in 2007, none in 2015 or 2025

Building land is a first anchor. For Hittnau, the canton's model sets residential building land at CHF 1,191 per square metre for 2025.⁷ Ten years earlier the model value was CHF 734, an increase of 62.3 per cent. Typically the model ranges from CHF 841 to CHF 1,677 per square metre.

The canton also measures what buyers actually paid. Across the canton, residential building land sold for a median of CHF 1,742 per square metre between 2021 and 2025.⁷ Hittnau's model value lies below that. Because one figure is estimated and the other paid, the comparison only gives a rough sense of scale.

What is estimated is the middle value for bare land in the municipality, not your plot with its location and shape. For a house, the building adds age, condition and fit-out on top. Both can be derived separately and supported with documents such as plans and receipts.

Hittnau is part of Pfäffikon district, and there the number of sales is large enough. In 2025, 286 condominiums were sold on the open market in the district, at a median of CHF 1,025,000.² In 2015, 179 sales gave a median of CHF 700,000. The district median thus rose by 46 per cent in ten years.

For a flat in Hittnau, this figure is still not a price. The district median draws on sales from across the district, from Pfäffikon as well as from smaller municipalities. How many of them were in Hittnau, the statistics do not show.

The district also gives a figure for houses: a 2025 median of CHF 1,430,000, from 149 sales.² What this means for you: the district shows the setting in which your house is offered. Your own figure only emerges once location, plot and building have each been valued.

Hittnau collects the property gains tax under the cantonal tariff.¹ The rate rises in steps: 10 per cent on the first CHF 4,000, 40 per cent on parts above CHF 100,000. Ownership then lowers the amount, by 20 per cent in the example after 10 full years.

The reduction peaks at 50 per cent after 20 full years. On the same gain, CHF 59,700 would then be due instead of CHF 95,520.¹ If you bought over 20 years ago, the market value of 20 years ago may replace the purchase price. Documented value-enhancing investments reduce the gain further; maintenance does not.

Buy and live in a new home, and the tax can be deferred.¹ You must have lived in the old home yourself and replace it in Switzerland. 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 Deferred does not mean waived.