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.’
The property valuation company IAZI is convinced that the Swiss National Bank’s reduction of the key interest rate by 0.5 per cent to 0.5 per cent will have a positive effect on the property market. The easing of monetary policy makes sense, as inflation has once again been lower than expected since the SNB’s last assessment of the situation.
In an interview recently published on the ZKB blog, Ursina Kubli, Head of Property Research at Zürcher Kantonalbank, answered the most important questions about the possible abolition of imputed rental value.
