As of June 1, 2021, Switzerland had a total of 71,365 vacant apartments, including single-family houses, according to the Federal Statistical Office ( FSO<\/a> ) in a message<\/a> . Compared to the previous year, this corresponds to a decrease of 9.5 percent. The corresponding vacancy rate fell in the same period by 0.18 percentage points to 1.54 percent. It fell for the first time in twelve years, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n

The FSO analysts observed a decline in vacant apartments in six of the seven major regions. Only in the greater Ticino area did the vacancy rate rise by 0.12 percentage points to 2.83 percent. Within the cantons, the analysts found the lowest vacancy rates in Zug (0.34 percent), Geneva (0.51 percent) and Zurich (0.72 percent). The highest vacancy rates were observed in the cantons of Solothurn (3.15 percent), Ticino (2.83 percent) and Appenzell Innerrhoden (2.59 percent).<\/p>\n

The analysts have noted a particularly high decline in vacancies for new apartments and single-family homes. As of the reporting date, 7,066 vacant properties were offered for long-term rent or for sale across Switzerland, 24.2 percent fewer than in the previous year. The number of vacant single-family houses offered for long-term rent or purchase decreased by 18.8 percent to 5940 properties in the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Die Zahl der leerstehenden Wohnungen ist 2021 schweizweit zum ersten Mal seit zw\u00f6lf Jahren gesunken. Die Leerwohnungsziffer ging im Jahresvergleich in allen Grossregionen bis auf das Tessin zur\u00fcck. Die Kantone Zug, Genf und Z\u00fcrich weisen die tiefsten Leerst\u00e4nde auf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[12476],"tags":[13068,13069,12564,12525,12526,13070,13071,13072,12528,13073,13074,13075,12558],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}