The world of exclusive living.

More and more people are looking for proximity to urban living. Exclusive houses and flats in cities are increasingly in demand. Luxury Defined, the online magazine of Christies International Real Estate, spotlights a collection of townhouses in cities far and wide.

Inflation in Switzerland is finally easing. At 1.61 % on an annual basis, the inflation rate is below the SNB’s inflation target of 2 %. Summer brings consistency to the mortgage market; in July, mortgage rates and government bond yields were stable, as they had been in the previous month. For a long time, inflation figures rose more than expected, but now the trend seems to be turning around.

“Is the breather in the Swiss real estate market already over?” asks IAZI AG in its evaluations of transaction prices in the second quarter of 2023. Their conclusion: In the market for residential property, a strong willingness to pay continued to be observed after the end of the 2nd quarter.