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Short, sourced answers to the questions brokers, property management firms and people looking for a home in Switzerland are asking.

  • How much does it cost to publish property listings in Switzerland?

    It depends on the portal’s price model. With per-listing billing, an example of published rates, recorded in January 2026, gives CHF 44 base per month, plus CHF 370 per property for rent and CHF 505 per property for sale, excluding VAT: CHF 1’659 per month for three rentals and one sale. With a flat subscription like ImmGate’s, the price does not depend on the number of listings: CHF 49 per month, all inclusive, unlimited listings.

  • SwissRETS: the Swiss standard for exchanging property listings

    SwissRETS is the open format in which Swiss real estate software describes the properties to publish: address, price, areas, texts in several languages, photos. It is maintained by Qualipool, an association of software providers and portals, and published freely on GitHub. Two versions coexist: JSON, which keeps evolving (3.6 today), and XML, frozen at 2.7.

  • Publishing your listings on several portals without re-entering them

    Enter your properties only once, in your management software, and let it export them to each portal in the Swiss standard format, SwissRETS. Before adding a portal, check three things: that it does not require exclusivity, that it does not bill each listing, and that it removes a sold or let property by itself.

  • What a complete property listing should contain

    A complete listing lets people decide without phoning: the detailed price, the area, the number of rooms, the floor, the availability date, the locality, photos of each room with a floor plan, and a description written in each language you publish in. Every empty field also drops the property from searches filtered on that criterion.

  • Net rent, service charges, gross rent: reading the price of a rental in Switzerland

    The net rent pays for the use of the home. Service charges pay for services linked to that use, such as heating, hot water and running costs. They are added to the rent only if the lease provides for it. The gross rent adds the two together: it is what you pay each month. Service charges are paid in instalments, with a statement at least once a year, or as a flat rate calculated on the average of three years.

  • Recognising a fake property listing

    A fake listing offers a home that does not exist, or is not for rent, to obtain money or your documents. The most frequent signs: a rent well below prices in the area, a landlord abroad who cannot arrange a viewing, and a payment demanded before the viewing. Pay nothing before you have visited, and only place a deposit in a bank account in the tenant’s name.

  • Looking for a home in Switzerland with an AI assistant

    An AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT can search listings for you if it is given access to a portal through an MCP connector, the open standard that connects assistants to external services. Add the address https://www.immgate.ch/mcp as a connector and connect your free ImmGate account: the assistant then searches ImmGate, with the same filters and the same ranking as the site, and gives you the link to each listing. It can also fill in your application file and attach it to your requests. Always open the listing before deciding, and pay nothing before you have visited.

  • The application file: fill it in once, send it in one click

    In Switzerland, every letting agency asks for roughly the same documents: a recent debt collection register extract, your latest payslips, an identity document or your permit. On ImmGate you upload them once, in “My file”. When you write about a listing, you tick “Attach my complete file”: the agency receives a link that only opens with a code sent to its address. Your documents are encrypted, you see who opened them, and you withdraw access whenever you like.

  • “Apply with ImmGate”: receive complete files on your website

    “Apply with ImmGate” is a button your agency puts on its own property pages. The applicant clicks, signs in to their ImmGate account, sees that you are asking for their file, and accepts. Their complete file then arrives in your website or software: identity, income bracket, debt collection extract, payslips and identity document. You activate it in your ImmGate space, your developer connects it in a few minutes, and it is included in your subscription.