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- What does the 2015 house median say about your house in Hüttikon today?
- How has the land model for Hüttikon moved in ten years?
- What reduces the property gains tax on a sale in Hüttikon?
- What matters in Hüttikon besides the price?
- Is there a value capture levy in Hüttikon?
- Estate agent in Hüttikon
- Frequently asked questions
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Suppose you check the official house median in Hüttikon and find a figure from 2015: CHF 985,000, from 53 sales. It looks solid, but it is ten years old. In 2007 there was only 1 sale, and in 2025 only 4 – both years far below the threshold of 15 at which the canton publishes a median at all.
For condominiums the statistics record no open-market sale in any of the three reference years. The yardstick for the worked example therefore comes from outside, from Dielsdorf district.
What does the 2015 house median say about your house in Hüttikon today?
Worked example
Worked example, Hüttikon: flat at the district median, 10 years of ownership
Assumption: a flat at the median of Dielsdorf district, bought in 2015 and sold in 2025, without investments or costs. Flats in Hüttikon itself have no median in any of the three years.
- Sale price (district median 2025, provisional)
- CHF 920,000
- Purchase price (district median 2015)
- – CHF 690,000
- Property gain
- CHF 230,000
- Tax per tariff, before reduction
- CHF 81,400
- Reduction for 10 full years: 20%
- – CHF 16,280
- Property gains tax
- CHF 65,120
- Remaining after tax, before mortgage
- CHF 854,880
What does the 2015 house median say about your house in Hüttikon today?
In 2015, 53 houses changed hands in Hüttikon, at a median of CHF 985,000.2 Of the three reference years 2007, 2015 and 2025, the statistics show a house median only for 2015. In 2007 there was only 1 sale, in 2025 only 4, both far below the threshold of 15.
So many sales in one year can arise when a new development is sold at once. Whether that happened in Hüttikon in 2015, the statistics do not say. They count sales, not causes. In 2007 and 2025 the number was far lower.
For your house today this means: a median from 2015 is no yardstick for 2025, even an official one. Ten years on, location, plot and building count as they are now. They need their own derivation, however many neighbours have just sold.
How has the land model for Hüttikon moved in ten years?
For Hüttikon the cantonal model puts residential building land at CHF 767 per square metre in 2025.7 In 2015 it was CHF 692, a rise of only 10.8 per cent. Of the 160 municipalities in the canton, only one shows a smaller rise. In the other 158 the model rose more.
For the canton as a whole there is also the median of prices actually paid for building land. It was CHF 800 per square metre in 2011 to 2015, CHF 1,742 in 2021 to 2025.7 One is a model per municipality, the other a median of prices paid. Both serve only as rough orientation.
The Dielsdorf district flat median behind the worked example rose from CHF 690,000 in 2015 to CHF 920,000 in 2025.2 It rests on 303 and 193 sales from across the district. It gives no price for a flat or house in Hüttikon.
What reduces the property gains tax on a sale in Hüttikon?
The tariff is the same in every Zurich municipality. Hüttikon only levies the tax.1 The steps run from 10 per cent on the first CHF 4,000 to 40 per cent above CHF 100,000. From 5 full years there is a reduction, 20 per cent in the example after 10 years.
It is highest from 20 full years, at 50 per cent. The same gain would then mean CHF 40,700 in tax instead of CHF 65,120.1 After more than 20 years, the market value of 20 years ago can serve as the starting value. Documented value-enhancing investments also cut the gain; plain maintenance does not.
Buy a new home in Switzerland to live in, and the tax can be deferred.1 The old home must also have been owner-occupied. If the new home costs less than the proceeds, the difference is taxed at once.9 If it costs no more than the old price and investments, there is no deferral. Deferred is not waived.
| Indicator | Hüttikon | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Houses sold on the open market | 4 (no median; 2015: 53 at CHF 985,000; 2007: 1) | 2025 |
| Flats sold on the open market | 0 (no median; 2015: 0, 2007: 0) | 2025 |
| Median flat price, Dielsdorf district (193 sales) | CHF 920,000 (2015: CHF 690,000) | 2025, provisional |
| Residential building land per m² (cantonal model) | CHF 767 (2015: CHF 692) | 2025, provisional |
| Residents, of whom 65 and over | 952, of whom 139 (14.6%) | 2025 |
| Tax rate municipal / total, excl. church | 113% / 208% | 2026 |
| Bus and train to Zürich HB | from 37 minutes (bus 491, then S 6) | October 2026 timetable |
| Municipal value capture levy | Waiver (no levy) | in force since 07.06.2025 |
What matters in Hüttikon besides the price?
Bus 491 runs from the stop Hüttikon to Regensdorf-Watt station, where you change to the S 6 for Zürich HB, from 37 minutes.5 Hüttikon has no station of its own. In Hüttikon, 14.6 per cent of the population are 65 or older, 139 of 952 people.4
Hüttikon taxes income and wealth at 113 per cent, 208 per cent together with the canton.3 In Boppelsen, also in Dielsdorf district, you would pay about 9 per cent less cantonal and municipal tax on the same income and wealth, in Regensdorf about 2 per cent more.
The purchase contract in Hüttikon is notarised by the notary, land registry and bankruptcy office of Dielsdorf, Wehntalerstrasse 40, 8157 Dielsdorf.10 More in the guide Notary and land registry.
Is there a value capture levy in Hüttikon?
Hüttikon charges no municipal value capture levy. Under article 2a of its building and zoning regulations, the municipality has expressly waived such a levy.6 The municipal assembly adopted the waiver on 10 December 2024 and the cantonal building department approved it on 1 April 2025; it has been in force since 7 June 2025.6
The cantonal levy remains. If land is newly zoned for building, the canton charges its own levy of 20 per cent of the increase in value; small gains are 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 median from 2015 is no yardstick for what your house is worth today. I derive it afresh, from land, district and building, and show what remains after tax.
Prefer to talk? +41 76 325 11 95 – you speak directly with Dominik Devaja.
Estate agent in Hüttikon
Selling in Hüttikon with Immosmile: four phases, one contact person
I support sales throughout the Canton of Zurich, including Hüttikon. 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 Hüttikon worth?
What else do owners in Hüttikon ask?
How do I find the right estate agent in Hüttikon?
Ask how anyone deals with a median that is ten years old. I handle sales across the whole Canton of Zurich. Your house should be valued in its present condition, land and district value kept apart from it, the tax calculated with your own purchase date. A list for the first meeting: the 12 checking questions.
Which purchase price counts if I inherited the house in Hüttikon?
An inheritance itself does not trigger property gains tax. On a later sale, you generally take over the purchase price and purchase date of the deceased person as your starting value. More on the inheritance page.
Will selling in Hüttikon cost me a value capture levy?
Not a municipal one: Hüttikon has expressly waived it since June 2025. 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: Hüttikon – Zürich HB (bus 491, then S 6), fastest connection departing 09:00–09:59 · 2026 timetable, queried 23.10.2026 for 27 and 29.10.2026
- Municipality of Hüttikon: building and zoning regulations, art. 2a «Verzicht auf Mehrwertausgleich», in German · adopted 10.12.2024, 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
- 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 Dielsdorf (responsible for Hüttikon), 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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