Posts for topic Real Estate Investments Indirect Switzerland

After many years of constantly falling interest rates and the option to sometimes borrow capital at negative interest rates, rising borrowing costs are now confronting real estate funds with new challenges – and investors with new risks.

The TER has become a much more relevant factor in investment decisions, and it has become much easier to compare the figures for different peers thanks to efforts undertaken by the self-regulating industry associations to bring about standardised definitions and harmonisation. Improvements in efficiency, as reflected by lower TERs, can be largely attributed to the degression of fixed costs such as accounting, marketing, foundation board fees and bank charges.

The Corporate Finance & Banking team of Swiss Finance & Property Ltd ("SFP"), which has been a licensed securities firm for about a year now, assisted EPIC Suisse AG ("EPIC") with its IPO. Despite challenging market conditions, the biggest real estate IPO on the Swiss stock market for eight years was a success thanks to painstaking preparation.

This article looks at figures relating to Zurich's market for office space based on an analysis and evaluation of data from the City of Zurich's Statistics Office.

The transaction market for direct property investment has undergone a surprisingly dynamic recovery in recent months, boosted by a sustained period of low interest rates. What is less surprising is that the compression of initial yields was strongest in the residential sector, followed by the office sector (prime), while the retail sector stagnated year-on-year.