Guide
What a complete property listing should contain
Updated on 12 November 2026
In brief
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.
The essentials, which everyone looks for first
- The price. For a rental, the net rent and service charges, or at least the rent including charges. For a sale, the sale price.
- The living area and the number of rooms.
- The floor, whether there is a lift, the year of construction or of the last renovation.
- The availability date: a precise date, or “immediately”.
- The locality and postcode, and the exact address if you agree to publish it.
What makes the difference
- Photos of each room, taken in daylight, and a floor plan: that is what people look at before reading.
- A description written in each language you publish in. A machine translation shows, and it sometimes distorts the details that matter.
- Everyday features: balcony or terrace, cellar, parking space, washing machine, step-free access, pets allowed or not.
- A virtual tour, if you have one.
- If you wish, your fees and any costs charged to the tenant or buyer, as you set them.
Why every field matters
A filtered search only keeps properties where the criterion is filled in. Without a number of rooms, the property disappears from an “at least 3 rooms” search. Without a price, it disappears from a search by budget. Without coordinates, it disappears from the map and from searches around a place.
A price per square metre without the area cannot be converted into a monthly amount: the property can no longer be compared with others by price.
Search engines and AI assistants also read this information. The more complete it is, the more accurate what they say about the property.
Everything is entered once, in your software
Each of these items has its field in the Swiss SwissRETS standard. Fill it in your management software: it goes as it is to every portal that reads the standard, and a correction shows up everywhere.
With ImmGate
Your feed’s connection test shows what would be taken over before anything is saved, and the log of each reading flags listings whose canton could not be deduced or whose coordinates fall outside Switzerland.