Selling property in Laufen-Uhwiesen: 14 flats sold, 15 needed

What Laufen-Uhwiesen does have is a model for the land. The cantonal model puts residential building land in Laufen-Uhwiesen at CHF 968 per square metre for 2025.⁷ In 2015 it was still CHF 583, a rise of 66 per cent in ten years. Of the 160 municipalities in the canton, 83 rose more strongly, 76 less. Typically the model ranges from CHF 687 to CHF 1,372 per square metre.

Alongside it, the canton knows a price actually paid across its whole territory. Residential building land sold in 2021 to 2025 fetched a median of CHF 1,742.⁷ Model and price paid arise in different ways and only serve as rough orientation. The model value of Laufen-Uhwiesen sits below it.

The model only estimates undeveloped land, not your own plot and not the building on it. For a house in Laufen-Uhwiesen, the building comes on top, with its age, condition and fit-out. A single sale in the neighbourhood is no substitute for that derivation.

In 2025, 14 condominiums changed hands in Laufen-Uhwiesen.² That is a single sale short of the 15 needed for the canton to work out a median at all. In 2015 there were only 4, in 2007 just 1.

For houses the figures of the three reference years are similar, but further from the threshold: 10 sales in 2025, 11 in 2015, 11 in 2007 as well.² None of the three reference years reached a median. What happened between the years, these figures alone do not show.

For an official figure you have to turn to the district of Andelfingen. In 2025, 129 flats changed hands there, at a median of CHF 900,000, 40 per cent above the 2015 median.² That value mixes sales from across the district and is not a price for a flat in Laufen-Uhwiesen. For your own property, location, plot and building count, each derived separately.

The tariff is the same throughout the canton; Laufen-Uhwiesen only levies it.¹ It rises in steps with the gain: 10 per cent on the first CHF 4,000, 40 per cent on the part above CHF 100,000. 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 46,500 would then be due instead of CHF 74,400.¹ Documented value-enhancing investments reduce the gain further; mere maintenance does not.

Buy a new home to live in afterwards, and the tax can be deferred. You must have lived in the old home yourself and replace it in Switzerland.¹⁰ 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.