Selling property in Stallikon: a house median right at the threshold

The land also helps place the value. The cantonal model puts residential building land in Stallikon at CHF 864 per square metre for 2025.⁷ In 2015 it was CHF 683, up 26.5 per cent in ten years. Only 7 of the 160 Zurich municipalities show a smaller rise. Typically the model ranges from CHF 599 to CHF 1,244 per square metre.

There is a second official figure. With a house median for 2025, the statistics also show CHF 3,385 per square metre of plot, sold with the house on it.² That is a different measure: house prices paid per plot area, not estimated bare land. The two figures therefore sit far apart.

Another yardstick of its own covers the canton. There, residential building land actually sold for a median of CHF 1,742 per square metre between 2021 and 2025.⁷ What this means for you: none of the three figures replaces a derivation for your own plot, with its location, access and permitted density.

In 2025, with exactly 15 open-market sales, Stallikon reaches the threshold for an official house median: CHF 1,500,000.² In 2015 and 2007 it fell short, with 12 and 9 sales. There is therefore no comparison value of its own.

Flats run the other way. In 2015 and 2007, 31 sales each gave a median of their own; in 2015 it stood at CHF 815,000. By 2025 only 13 sales remained, so its own yardstick is missing just now.

The 2025 house median sits 6 per cent below the cantonal median of CHF 1,590,000.² It is one year's figure, with no comparison from 2015 or 2007. Affoltern district shows a 2025 house median of CHF 1,680,000 from 169 sales. That too is only a surrounding figure. What this means for you: the example uses the district flat median, as Stallikon has no median for both 2015 and 2025. None of these medians alone sets the value of your house.

The same statutory tariff applies everywhere in the canton; Stallikon only levies it.¹ It rises in steps with the gain. The first CHF 4,000 are taxed at 10 per cent, parts above CHF 100,000 at 40 per cent. Ownership works the other way, here with a 20 per cent reduction after 10 full years.

From 20 full years the reduction stays at 50 per cent. From the same gain, CHF 55,200 would then be due instead of CHF 88,320.¹ Owners of more than 20 years may use the market value of 20 years ago as the purchase price instead. Documented value-enhancing investments reduce the gain too; maintenance does not.

Put the proceeds into an owner-occupied home in Switzerland, and the tax can be deferred.¹ The home sold must also have been owner-occupied. If the replacement 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.