Housing
The Swiss rental market is very tight, with vacancies below 1% in major cities. Learn how to create a flawless dossier and know your rights as a tenant.
- Renting a home in Switzerland: the step-by-step process
- How to rent a flat in Switzerland: everything you need to know before you start
- Renting in Switzerland: steps, dossier, deposit and how to avoid scams
- Subletting a room or apartment in Switzerland: legal guide
- Rental deposits and tenant rights (ASLOCA/MV)
- Coexistence rules in Switzerland: noise, waste, parking and common rules
- Average rental depending on the canton of 3 or 3.5 rooms. Without forgetting that in Geneva the cuisine is considered as a piece. That is to say that a 3 pieces in G
- Rentals and worries
- The difficult search for housing on the Swiss border for French workers
- How to get an apartment without having contacts or a banker's salary?
- A month of non-payment? Goodbye floor. Welcome to the Switzerland of 2025
- When looking for an apartment becomes an extreme sport in Switzerland
- Reminder for all those who post room rental ads in the group: To maintain order and avoid misunderstandings, the posts
- SwissCaution: bail without bail (but with a trick)
- Living in a box: what you need to know about rooms and micro-studios in Switzerland
- Special days off in Switzerland: wedding, birth, moving… what does the law say?
- Leaving an apartment in Switzerland: what they can (and cannot) charge you
- Subletting a room in Switzerland: what you can do, what you can't, and the example that no one explains
- Subletting a room or apartment in Switzerland: what should be made clear from the first day
- The situation is going to get worse on the housing front in Switzerland
- Is there a law in Switzerland that requires children of opposite sexes to be separated by room?
- Bail in Switzerland doesn't disappear on its own: someone is keeping it
- Buying a home in Switzerland: possible, expensive and designed for a lifetime
- Subsidized apartments in Switzerland. What exists and what does not
- Transferring mail after moving in Switzerland: what you need to know
- Cash in the Swiss Constitution. What is voted on March 8, without noise
- Can the real estate agency do an "inspection" of the apartment just because?
- The reference tax remains at 1.25%: no rent reductions or increases for Swiss tenants
- Finding an apartment in Switzerland in 2026: welcome to the most frustrating sport in the country
- Comprar piso en Suiza siendo español: lo que depende de tu permiso, y lo que no
- RC y seguro del hogar en Suiza: dos seguros distintos que van juntos pero no son lo mismo
- Alquilar en Suiza en 2026: cuando el mercado decide que no eres prioridad
- The new noise law comes into force and changes the rules for building housing in Switzerland
- Construction defects: you now have 60 days to claim and that changes many things
- The building's laundry room in Switzerland: the room nobody tells you about when you sign the tenancy agreement
- The building's shared laundry is a Swiss institution. And it has more rules than you might think
- Your flat turns into an oven in summer. Can you ask your landlord for help in Switzerland? Yes, but there are conditions
- In Switzerland, quiet hours aren’t just a suggestion. And your neighbour knows them better than you do
- You’ve been living in your Swiss flat for a year and the first service charge statement has arrived. What nobody explains to you when you sign the tenancy agreement
- La Lex Koller endurecida: lo que propone el gobierno suizo y por qué los españoles deberían saberlo
- Rental deposits in Switzerland: three months’ rent tied up – it’s your money, but you have no control over it
- The warranty in Switzerland lasts two years by law, but claiming it has more requirements than you can imagine
- By 11 May, Switzerland had consumed all its natural resources by 2026
- The rental agreement lists “prohibited animals”. Does that mean you can't even have a cat on your floor?
- In Switzerland, when the heat comes, you realize that almost no one has air conditioning. And putting one in has more complications than it seems
- In Switzerland, a nursing home charges a 99-year-old man 728 francs a month for reminding him to drink water
- Your tenancy agreement states a price. But there is another cost that isn’t mentioned there, and one that many people only realise too late.
- You’re going to Spain this summer. Can you sublet your flat while you’re away? Yes, but you need to do it properly.
- In Switzerland, terraces have set opening hours. And the heat is no excuse.