Selling property in Pfungen: own station, house median only for 2015

Pfungen still had an official house median in 2015: CHF 819,000, from 25 sales.² In 2025 only 9 houses changed hands; in 2007 it was 8. Both years stayed below the threshold of 15 sales. Between 2015 and 2025, the number of house sales therefore more than halved.

For the land, the figure is not missing. The canton estimates undeveloped residential building land in Pfungen at CHF 1,058 per square metre for 2025.⁷ In 2015 this model value stood at CHF 651. About 63 per cent was added in ten years. Typical values in the model lie between CHF 737 and CHF 1,516.

The model value says nothing about your own plot and nothing about the house on it. For a house in Pfungen, the building comes on top, with its age, condition and fit-out. A figure that fits your own house therefore needs a fresh derivation, not the 2015 median.

In Pfungen, flat sales did not reach a median in any of the three reference years: 2 sales in 2007, 5 in 2015, 11 in 2025.² Houses were different in 2015, when 25 sales produced a median.

In Winterthur district the flat median rose from CHF 695,000 to CHF 950,000, a rise of about 37 per cent in ten years.² In the Winterthur and surroundings region it rose from CHF 699,500 to CHF 980,000. That is about 40 per cent, slightly more than in the district. Both figures are the surroundings, not the price of any single Pfungen flat.

Pfungen cannot be compared with the cantonal median for flats at all, since its own figure is missing. What this means for you: an assessment of your flat rests on comparable properties from the area, not on a single district figure.

The tariff is the same throughout the canton; Pfungen 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 further; maintenance alone 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.