Real Estate Business Issue 03/2026

News

• Zurich: Full occupancy on Josefstrasse
• Zurich: Garden City Köschenrüti
• Personalia: Cham Swiss Properties AG
• Zurich: Hamasil Foundation suffers another defeat
• Personalia: Investissements Fonciers SA
• Lucerne: Start of construction for CSS extension
• Bern: More apartments on the Mädergut
• Personalia: ULI Switzerland
• Basel: Affordable apartments on the Wolf site
• Personalia: CBRE Switzerland
• Basel: Department of Finance becomes tenant in the VIA
• Arth: New life at the «Hotel des Alpes»
• Personalia: H&B Real Estate / Properti
• Principality of Liechtenstein: Campus for Bankhaus Frick
• Imprint

Trends

• WEAKENED PRICE MOMENTUM
• Wüest Partner forecast for the residential real estate market

Markets and Investment

• REAL ESTATE BONDS VERSUS GOVERNMENT BONDS
• Investor interest in Pfandbriefe on the rise
• THE END OF THE CARRY TRADE
• Japan's interest rate policy is unsettling the real estate markets

Title Topic

• FROM THE OFFICE TO THE HOTEL
• Transformation creates new potential
• ON THE WAY TO BECOMING AN ASSET CLASS
• Coliving as an alternative use

Architecture and construction industry

• HIGHLIGHT FOR MILAN
• A new chapter for the Torre Velasca

Regions

• PLENTY OF ROOM FOR PROJECTS
• New quarters for St. Gallen

Innovations

• POWER PIONEERS
• New approach for cheaper solar power
• LEARNING INFRASTRUCTURE
• Cognitive robots for building operation

Foreign markets

• WEST COAST BLUES
• Rising office vacancies in the US tech metropolises

Real Estate Financial Markets

• INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH: Giacomo Balzarini, CEO PSP Swiss Property