Acquisition of real estate by persons abroad

The Swiss federal legislation in respect of the acquisition of real estates by persons living abroad provides several restrictions to such acquisition of property rights and/or rights assimilated to, for persons living abroad: either the persons without any right of settlement in Switzerland (condition being: swiss nationalty or C permit), or, EU or EFTA Member States nationals with no legal and effective domicile in Switzerland.

Documents and Guidelines

• Guidelines (PDF, 660 kB, 12.05.2021)

Directions to help the land registries enforce the law

• German (PDF, 82 kB, 21.06.2010)
• French (PDF, 94 kB, 21.06.2010)
• Italian (PDF, 84 kB, 21.06.2010)

  (This document is not available in English)

Statistics

(These documents are not available in English)

• Statistik 2006 - 2015 (PDF, 1 MB, 14.08.2014)
• Statistique 2006 - 2015 (PDF, 1 MB, 14.08.2014)
• Statistik 2016
• Statistique 2016
• Statistik 2017
• Statistique 2017
• Statistiken 2018 (XLSX, 18 kB, 07.07.2021)
• Bericht Lex Koller 2018
• Rapport Lex Koller 2018
• Statistiken 2019 (XLSX, 20 kB, 07.07.2021)
• Bericht Lex Koller 2019
• Rapport Lex Koller 2019
• Statistiken 2020 (XLSX, 17 kB, 06.05.2022)
• Bericht Lex Koller 2020
• Rapport Lex Koller 2020
• Statistiken 2021 (XLSX, 18 kB, 25.07.2023)

Note

For the complete documentation see the pages in German, French or Italian.

Dossier

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Last modification 25.07.2023