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Vacancy rates, 1 June 2025

Verified cantonal figures

National 1.00% (48,455 empty apartments), 15 cantons below 1%, fifth consecutive annual decline, lowest in twelve years (BWO/BFS). Below, only cantonal figures verified to a primary source; where no figure is shown, it was not reliable across sources.

Verified cantonal figures
CantonVacancy rate
Canton of Geneva0.34 %
Canton of Zug0.42 %
Canton of Zurich0.48 %
Canton of Lucerne0.78 %
Canton of Ticino1.92 %
Canton of Basel-Stadtnot primary-verified
Canton of Bernnot primary-verified
Canton of Vaudnot primary-verified

What nobody else tells you

  • A 1.00% national vacancy rate, and 0.34-0.48% in Geneva/Zug/Zurich, means almost no slack. You are one of 20+ applicants per listing, and good flats are gone within days. This figure is solid (BWO/BFS primary source).
  • You cannot produce a Swiss Betreibungsauszug before you have lived in Switzerland, it does not exist for you yet. Explain the gap proactively and substitute other proof. Some landlords will reject you anyway, that is not a failing on your part.
  • Viewing from abroad is genuinely hard: the desirable listings are shown only in person and are gone before a trip can line up with a slot. A structural mismatch, not a solvable inconvenience.
  • We could not verify Homegate or ImmoScout24 (403). Any link to those is a best-effort browse, not a guaranteed pre-filtered search, reapply filters. Only Flatfox reads location/rooms/price from the link.
  • Furnished short-term (UMS, Spacest) is a real bridge, but meaningfully pricier per month than an unfurnished lease, budget it as a temporary cost.
  • We have NO verified rent figures for any city. The numbers circulating disagree by hundreds of francs and by metric. Treat any rent figure as a rough direction, never a precise median.

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