Home ownership: +2.7% over the previous year.

The IAZI AG regularly publishes figures on the price development of privately used residential property, apartment buildings and investment properties based on effective changes of ownership on the open market with its “IAZI Private Real Estate Price Index”. After a short breather, the company found that transaction prices for owner-occupied residential property had risen slightly again in the first quarter of 2025. Although the 0.6% increase was slightly below the long-term average, it signaled a renewed revival in the market. It is striking that the willingness to pay for single-family houses (+0.5%) grew again after a minimal decline in the previous quarter. At +0.6%, the increase for condominiums is practically the same and only insignificantly higher than the previous quarter’s figure. Within a year, a price increase of 2.7% has been realized for residential property.

Home ownership offers financial security

According to the IAZI, demand was supported not least by persistently low mortgage interest rates. “Due to its high intrinsic value, home ownership also offers a high degree of financial security. In politically and economically uncertain times, characterized by turbulence in the financial and energy markets, trade conflicts and the turmoil of war, residential property in a reliable and well-managed country like Switzerland proves to be a safe haven.”