What is the price per square metre in Fahrwangen?

There is no official figure: Aargau publishes transfers of ownership only as a cantonal total, and portal figures are asking prices. As a guide, our asking prices on Stickiweg: a 5.5-room garden flat with 163 m² for CHF 1,150,000, a penthouse with 149 m² for CHF 1,390,000, both first-occupancy prices, not a village average. We value existing properties individually with IAZI/CIFI.

How much property gains tax do I pay when selling my house in Fahrwangen?

Example: purchase notarised in summer 2013 for CHF 850,000, sale in autumn 2026 for CHF 1,200,000, 13 completed years of ownership. After more than ten years the flat rate of Section 105 StG AG applies, 77% of the proceeds once the 14th year of ownership has begun: CHF 924,000 investment costs, CHF 276,000 gain, taxed at 17% under Section 109 para. 1 lit. o, i.e. CHF 46,920. Higher proven costs count (Section 105 para. 3). The tax is assessed by the Fahrwangen tax commission (Section 164).

What does the low vacancy rate mean for the sale of my house?

On 1 June 2026, 5 of the 1,229 dwellings in Fahrwangen were vacant, 0.41%; in 2019 it was 49. That is not a licence for any price: the buyers' bank finances on the basis of the IAZI/CIFI value, and a property priced well above it stays on the market. Priced correctly, the tight market shortens the time to sell.

How do I get from Fahrwangen to Zurich or Lenzburg without a car?

By bus from the ‘Fahrwangen, Bahnhof’ stop: line 390 to Lenzburg in 28 (express bus) to 36 minutes, line 340 to Wohlen in 16 to 19 minutes, Zurich main station via Lenzburg in 56 to 59 minutes. The stop's name recalls the Wohlen–Meisterschwanden railway, which ran from 1916 to 1997.

What has Rudat AG already sold in Fahrwangen?

A new-build penthouse, reserved after 9 weeks. In the ‘Living the Dream’ project at Stickiweg 2, three of the eight flats are sold, two reserved, three for sale, first occupancy December 2026. In Sarmenstorf we are marketing a detached 5.5-room house from 1926, renovated in 2021.

Estate Agent Fahrwangen: Sell Your House

Selling in Fahrwangen

Anyone selling in Fahrwangen often has a young property: 456 of the 1,205 dwellings were built between 2001 and 2024, 37.8% of the stock (as at the end of 2024). 265 dwellings date from before 1946; 416 of the 625 residential buildings are detached houses.

Before the listing appears, we gather:

Newer flat: condominium regulations, renewal fund (Erneuerungsfonds), service charges. Buyers compare with the new build in the village.
Older house: every renewal with year and amount. Heating, roof, windows and kitchen weigh more heavily here than floor area.
The position on the slope. Sunlight, lake view and the walk to the bus stop differ from quarter to quarter; drone images show it.

First step: the valuation of your property, with a written derivation.

The market in Fahrwangen

Fahrwangen has grown by almost a third in ten years: at the end of 2025, 2,596 people lived here, 29.7% more than at the end of 2015 (2,002); the Canton of Aargau grew by 13.8%.

The housing stock rose from 1,024 (2019) to 1,229 at the end of 2025. Of the 1,205 dwellings at the end of 2024, 770 have four or more rooms; 416 detached houses stand alongside 125 apartment buildings (Mehrfamilienhäuser).

The market has absorbed the wave of new construction. On 1 June 2019, 49 dwellings were vacant, 28 of them in new builds, a vacancy rate (Leerwohnungsziffer) of 4.79%; in 2026 there are still 5, or 0.41%, lower than in the district of Lenzburg (Bezirk Lenzburg, 0.77%) and in the canton (1.05%). Aargau does not publish official sale prices per municipality (the transfer-of-ownership statistics give only the cantonal total); we derive the value for each property individually.

What makes Fahrwangen special

Fahrwangen lies in the district of Lenzburg at 546 m above sea level, a clustered village at the western foot of the Lindenberg, in a hollow above Lake Hallwil (Hallwilersee); the 500 ha municipality includes a roughly 500 m stretch of shoreline with its own bathing hut (Badhüsli). Its neighbours are Meisterschwanden, Sarmenstorf and Bettwil as well as Aesch and Schongau in the Canton of Lucerne.

The name means ‘slope with ferns’ in Old High German; the village has been documented since the early Middle Ages. From the 18th century the village lived from cotton weaving, later from straw plaiting. Since 1980 more people have commuted out than in; the population has grown steadily ever since.

Bus 340 takes 16 to 19 minutes to Wohlen, bus 390 28 to 36 minutes to Lenzburg; you reach Zurich main station in 56 to 59 minutes.

The municipal tax rate (Steuerfuss) stands at 118% in 2026, the cantonal rate at 103%; neither affects the property gains tax (Grundstückgewinnsteuer), as no surcharges are levied on it (Section 2 para. 4 of the Aargau Tax Act, § 2 Abs. 4 StG AG).

How Rudat AG sells in Fahrwangen

From Baar, Rudat AG looks after the whole Canton of Aargau (in German). Valued like a bank. Marketed like a boutique.

Derive the value rather than estimate it. IAZI/CIFI, the model used by the Swiss banks, provides the basis; we present the derivation in writing after the viewing, including the property gains tax.
Show what makes the slope special. Professional photos, drone footage, a 360° virtual tour (in German) and our own sales documentation; then the portals and our buyer database.
Every viewing in person. Conrad Rudat shows you round the house himself, negotiates and accompanies you through to the Wohlen land registry office (Grundbuchamt Wohlen).

From the region: at Stickiweg 2 we are marketing ‘Living the Dream’ (in German) with eight flats: three sold, two reserved, three for sale, first occupancy December 2026. A new-build penthouse (Attikawohnung) in Fahrwangen was reserved after 9 weeks; in Sarmenstorf a detached house (in German) is for sale. Google: 5.0 stars from 26 reviews.

You can reach Conrad Rudat on +41 41 763 33 66.

This page provides context, not advice; the tax commission (Steuerkommission) of the municipality of Fahrwangen and the Wohlen land registry office decide with binding effect.

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Conrad Rudat · reviewed on 10 October 2026Owner of Rudat AG, estate agent in Baar ZG. Values with the IAZI/CIFI models and guides you through to notarisation.