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What to know before buying or selling in French-speaking Switzerland, explained without jargon.
Buying in Switzerland according to your residence permit
Your right to buy depends less on your nationality than on the paper in your pocket.
Read the guide →Acquisition costs in canton Vaud
Allow 3.75 to 4% of the price on top of the price. That is the line buyers forget.
Read the guide →Selling your property in canton Vaud
Six to nine months between the decision and the money in the account. Here is where that time goes.
Read the guide →Financing a property purchase in Switzerland
The bank does not look at what you would pay each month, but at what you would pay if rates tripled.
Read the guide →Buying in a condominium: charges, funds and meetings
You are not only buying a flat, but a share of a building and a seat in an assembly.
Read the guide →Renting in Switzerland: file, lease and deposit
A flat is won on the paperwork, not on the viewing. It is prepared before you start looking.
Read the guide →Renovating an older property in canton Vaud
The purchase price is only half the equation. What decides it is what the municipality will let you do.
Read the guide →Living in the canton of Vaud
A canton you can cross in forty minutes, where you pass from vineyard to glacier without changing number plate.
Read the guide →Living in Lausanne
A city with five hundred metres of vertical drop, where you walk down to the lake and take the funicular back up.
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