The Swiss housing market is characterised by an extraordinarily low vacancy rate, generally in the vicinity of 1 per cent. Is the Swiss housing market permanently in a condition of severe shortage? This paper uses both a standard non-accelerating rent inflation rate of vacancy approach and a...

The proportion of Swiss households that own their home has always been in the vicinity of 30 percent, the lowest proportion in the OECD. Clearly the existing, essentially federal, policy for promoting home ownership has not been very aggressive. A survey allows us to understand what households...

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