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  • Rents in Switzerland continue to rise

    Rents in Switzerland continue to rise

    The monthly rental index compiled by the digital property marketplace Homegate in collaboration with Zürcher Kantonalbank closed at 129.5 points in January. Compared to the previous month, the index rose by just 0.2 per cent, Homegate reported in a press release. In contrast, the property marketplace’s experts recorded a 3.1 per cent increase in asking rents across Switzerland compared to the previous year.

    Within the cantons, Homegate’s experts have observed significant year-on-year increases in many cases. In the canton of Graubünden and the two combined cantons of Appenzell, however, asking rents in January 2025 were 0.8 and 0.5 per cent lower than in January 2024. Appenzell continued the decline that began in the previous month. Graubünden, on the other hand, has somewhat offset the decline of the past two months, but remains below the level of around a year ago, according to the press release.

    In the eight Swiss cities included in the index, the experts have identified consistently rising asking rents over the past twelve months. In the press release, they highlight Lucerne and Basel with increases of 7.7 and 6.6 per cent respectively. Rents in Lucerne were 1.4 per cent lower than in December 2024. At -2.2 per cent, Lugano recorded the sharpest month-on-month decline. Rents in the city of Bern, on the other hand, rose by 0.6 per cent compared to December 2024.

    Homegate is a division of SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG. This combines the digital marketplaces of TX Group, Ringier and Mobiliar.

  • Asking rents fluctuate at the start of the year

    Asking rents fluctuate at the start of the year

    The monthly rental index compiled by the digital property marketplace Homegate in collaboration with Zürcher Kantonalbank closed at 125.6 points in January. Compared to the previous month, the index rose by 0.3 per cent overall, Homegate reported in a press release. A year-on-year increase of 1.9 per cent was observed across Switzerland.

    In a year-on-year comparison, rents rose in all cantons, Homegate reports. However, the property marketplace’s experts observed major fluctuations on a monthly basis. Rents in Nidwalden, for example, rose the most at 3.7 per cent. High increases of 2.6 and 2.5 per cent were also recorded in the canton of Valais and the combined cantons of Appenzell. At the other end of the scale are the cantons of Schwyz and Glarus, where asking rents fell by 2.6 and 1.7 per cent respectively. In the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Zurich, asking rents fell by 0.4 per cent month-on-month.

    The eight Swiss cities included in the index also showed different trends month-on-month. For example, rents in Lausanne and Lugano fell by 2.1 and 0.8 per cent respectively compared to December 2023. At the same time, asking rents in Zurich and Bern increased by 0.5 per cent each. Rents rose in all eight cities compared to the previous year. At 11.5 per cent, this increase was strongest in the city of Zurich.

    Homegate is a division of SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG. This combines the digital marketplaces of TX Group, Ringier and Mobiliar.

  • Rental prices also rise in the Corona crisis

    Rental prices also rise in the Corona crisis

    As a result of the corona pandemic, an escape from the cities to the countryside or to rural residential areas was expected in the real estate sector because of the supposedly lower risk of infection there compared to overcrowded cities. That has not happened so far. On the contrary, according to the press release on the half-year report prepared by homegate.ch in collaboration with Zürcher Kantonalbank ( ZKB ), cities in particular continue to be very attractive.

    Throughout Switzerland, asking rents have risen by 0.4 percent since the beginning of the year. The slight downward trend of previous years has thus ended and was already broken in mid-2019. The higher rents are particularly evident in the cantons of Geneva with a plus of 4.5 percent, Jura with 1.7 and Uri with 1.5 percent. This trend can also be seen in most of the other cantons, with a few exceptions such as in the cantons of Obwalden and Nidwalden with minus 0.5 percent each, Graubünden and Basel-Land (-0.4 percent) and Ticino (-0.3 percent ). They are still suffering from the weakness in rent trends over the past few years. Vacancies are recorded in many rural cantons and municipalities.

    The half-yearly balance points to the robust rental price development in the cities of Geneva (+3.8 percent) and Zurich (+1.4 percent). This contradicts the expectations regarding the effects of the Corona crisis. However, the report points out, the rental situation could change for another reason, but one caused by Corona. The influx from abroad is likely to decrease and this can lead to downward pressure on rental prices in the case of vacancies, especially in many rental apartment projects that have been started due to the high influx of people to date.