Selling property in Urdorf: no median, a sharp rise in land

It is the best official anchor Urdorf has. For 2025 the cantonal model puts residential building land here at CHF 3,038 per square metre.⁷ Ten years earlier it was CHF 1,410. That is a rise of 115.5 per cent and the sharpest in Dietikon district. Of the 160 municipalities in the canton, only 10 rose even faster.⁷ Typically the model ranges from CHF 2,125 to CHF 4,279 per square metre.

A second measure, gathered differently, covers the whole canton. Prices actually paid for residential building land had a median of CHF 1,742 in 2021 to 2025.⁷ Urdorf's model value sits well above it. Both figures, though, only serve as a rough guide.

The model values undeveloped land, neither your actual plot nor the house on it. What this means for you: for a house, the building comes on top, with its age, condition and fit-out, backed by plans and invoices. A sale price doing the rounds in the neighbourhood cannot replace that derivation.

Useful as a direction, not as a price. In Dietikon district a total of 316 condominiums changed hands on the open market in 2025, at a median of CHF 1,313,000.² In 2015, 285 sales gave a median of CHF 869,000. That is a rise of 51 per cent.

For houses the district shows a 2025 median of CHF 1,699,000, from 126 sales.² Compared with 2015 that is 35 per cent more. Both figures rest on sales from across the district. Where exactly the properties sold were located, the statistics do not show.

Here the district median serves as the assumption for the worked example. It is not a value for your flat, let alone your house. What this means for you: your property needs its own derivation through location, plot and building. The district provides the frame, nothing more.

The tariff is the same throughout the canton; Urdorf 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 83,500 would then be due instead of CHF 133,600.¹ 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 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.⁹ And deferred does not mean waived.