Every week, a useful and lively read on the Swiss property market. What is changing at the federal level, what is moving in your canton, and the stories worth a detour.
Three auction dates, two bidders and a 2.7 million gap with the appraisal. What the Zürichberg villa reveals about debt enforcement in Switzerland.
Read the article →Rejected on 25 September, answered with a draft law, consultation promised for 2027. Until then, none of the new rent-setting rules bite.
Read the article →Buying the home you live in would become a permit matter for buyers from outside the EU and EFTA. The National Council said yes on 22 September, the Council of States has not ruled yet.
Read the article →On 22 July the Federal Supreme Court held that a tenant cannot block a necessary repair to freeze the evidence. Article 257h sets two duties on the landlord in return.
Read the article →Fewer than one Swiss home in a hundred stood empty this June, a first in fifteen years. Geneva hit its lowest level since 2011, and Vaud remains far from a balanced market.
Read the article →A cantonal ballot, a ten-year freeze on citizen initiatives and a federal cap that started counting in January. Three shifts in who may stop a Swiss property project.
Read the article →A Minergie-certified railway complex handed over in Prilly in March 2026 hit 34 °C in a bedroom this summer. A week later, a Vaud MP asked for compulsory geocooling on every new ground-source heat pump in the canton.
Read the article →A Geneva landlord more than quadrupled the rent on a 173 m² flat. He was missing a cantonal permit, and half a room to escape rent control.
Read the article →Five buildings bought for up to CHF 128.5 million, 107 homes served notice in one move. Meanwhile Geneva has not delivered this many new homes in five years.
Read the article →A Comparis survey puts a first number on how far housing demand is leaking across the border. Meanwhile the reference rate stays stuck at 1.25% and Vaud counts 3,907 empty homes.
Read the article →For years you could own a piece of the Swiss army. The state has shut that door, while Vaud opens a first-of-its-kind subsidy to adapt seniors' homes.
Read the article →Capital gains on property are taxed by the canton, not by Bern. Depending on where the home sits, a rushed seller can hand 30 to 60 percent of the gain to the taxman.
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