According to Raiffeisen Switzerland, prices for single-family homes fell by 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2024; however, condominiums cost 1.4 per cent more than in the previous quarter. The strongest price increases within a year were recorded for single-family homes in the centres and in urban regions; prices for condominiums rose the most in central Switzerland over the past four quarters.

The Federal Office for Housing BWO has published the commissioned study ‘Review of the Federal Office for Housing’s rent model’. This concludes that the rent model from the 1980s is no longer up to date in several respects.’ The SVIT is of the opinion that various assumptions in the study should be rejected. SVIT cannot agree with the authors’ main demand for a standardised new model.’

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