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Single-family houses have risen by over 5 percent in the past year: Housing estate in the canton of Aargau.
Foto: Gaëtan Bally (Keystone)
Get out of the rented apartment and into your own four walls – preferably with a garden or terrace. For most of the Swiss, this wish does not come true for a lifetime. It has been bobbing for years Home ownership rate in Switzerland b ei less than 40 percent. In an international comparison, d his share relative deep . And it is unlikely to increase anytime soon in the years to come. On the contrary: the share an People who can still afford home ownership in the future are shrinking t continue.
end 2019 represents e the Zürcher Kantonalbank found in a study that only ten Percent of Swiss Tenant households at all still Be able to afford home ownership t en. That is, this one ten Percent have have the assets and income necessary to obtain a mortgage. In 2021, this share is likely to have fallen even further, say Immobiliene xperten.
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