Zurich is cracking down on holiday lets
Zurich is tightening the rules on housing from 1 September 2026. Anyone who regularly lets out flats for short periods as Airbnb accommodation or business flats must declare this use.…
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Champel continues to drive up house prices in Geneva
A fully let residential block comprising 84 flats in Geneva-Champel is changing hands for 60 million Swiss francs. The deal highlights just how fiercely competitive prime residential locations remain and…
Low interest rates are not easing the pressure on rents
The reference interest rate in Switzerland remains at 1.25 per cent, but this is doing little to stabilise the housing market. Despite the historically low rate, UBS expects rents to…
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Housing fund raises 100 million for the refurbishment
The Raiffeisen Futura Immo Fund is set to launch its largest capital raising to date in September 2026. Around 100 million Swiss francs are to be used to finance new…
Development Switzerland Calls for Five Reforms
According to Entwicklung Schweiz, housing construction in Switzerland has reached a historically low level. Meanwhile, the population—and thus the demand for housing—continues to grow. In its position paper titled “Ways…
Mobiliar Becomes a Housing Developer
Mobiliar plans to build up to 1,000 affordable housing units throughout Switzerland in the coming years. The insurer is providing up to 200 million Swiss francs in equity capital for…
Zurich’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Land and Apartments
Between 2022 and 2025, the City of Zurich acquired a total of 47 properties, investing 1.3 billion francs in the process. Twenty-nine residential properties with 527 existing apartments directly support…
Lausanne plans to make 200 million available for new signings
Lausanne is set to have a significantly larger property budget. The Municipal Council’s Finance Committee wants to increase the acquisition loan for the period 2026 to 2031 from 130 to…
Zumikon enforces new planning law and halts the Huebrüti development
Zumikon is bringing the partial revision of the Building and Zoning Regulations into force on 1 January 2027. This means that new, harmonised measurement methods and amended regulations will apply…
Nussbaum’s residential towers are even more deeply entrenched
For the Markthof Schild Ost project in Nussbaumen near Baden, the start of construction—already scheduled for spring 2026—is being further delayed. Because the ongoing permitting process has made a second…
Residential neighborhood near the train station moves one step closer to becoming a reality
The Granador site near Hitzkirch and Ermensee is changing hands, giving new momentum to a development project that had been stalled for years. According to the design plan approved in…
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Shenzhen Is Brushing Aside the Real Estate Crisis
Hui Ka Yan’s life sentence brings one of the most spectacular chapters of China’s real estate boom to a close. For the market, however, the crisis is far from over,…
immo!nvest+ Basel is opening up the Lindenhof site for housing and a park
At the Lindenhof site in Basel, the transformation from an isolated corporate headquarters into a mixed-use urban block is drawing nearer. Planning permission has been submitted for two new high-rise…
Lausanne puts the brakes on a replacement development in the upmarket residential area
In Lausanne, a housing project comprising 19 flats has been blocked on grounds relating to listed buildings and the character of the area. The city has refused to allow the…
Bern Requires Residential Buildings to Have Charging Stations
The federal government is taking direct action regarding apartment buildings. A proposal released on June 19, 2026, aims to require landlords and condominium owners to install the basic infrastructure for…
immo!nvest+ Zurich Battles Over 40 Meters and the Cost of Densification
On September 27, 2026, Zurich will vote on two new high-rise regulations. The real sticking point isn’t the very tall towers, but rather the 40-meter zones in the outlying neighborhoods.…
Apartment Sales Drive Basel to Another Jump in Profits
Just under 85 million Swiss francs in net income over six months, 60.8 million Swiss francs from residential sales, and a nearly sold-out project in Cham. The Basel-based real estate…
Valais Blocks Housing Cooperatives Despite Shortage
In Valais, the vacancy rate is falling, but cooperative housing construction remains at a standstill. While a project for ten families in Saillon is stuck in the approval process, the…