Career Executive

“How does one finance the purchase of real-estate or an apartment?”
First of all, one should count on 5% of the purchase price being spent on acquisition expenses (various things such as ‘droit de mutation,’ fees for the Registry of Commerce, notary’s fees, etc.) to which one can add the price of the real-estate in question, [...]

In the French speaking part of Switzerland, beyond the rapidly expanding Geneva metropolis, the economies of the lake Geneva region – Lausanne-Morges, Nyon, Vevey-Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains—are booming.
Lausanne-Morges has roughly 310,000 inhabitants scattered over 70 communes, Nyon 60,000 inhabitants spread over 32 communes, Vevy-Montreux 73,000 inhabitants in 13 communes, and Yverdon-les-Bains 30,000 inhabitants across 7 communes.
These [...]

High Net Worth executives relocating to Switzerland for work or leisure should look carefully into the property markets.
Presently the Geneva and Vaud regions are considerably oversold and overbuilt, as are several regions of the Valais (Gstaad, Verbier, Crans Montana …) while Ticino remains both charmingly preserved and still full of good values.
Stretched between the Swiss [...]