Discover Your Dream Apartment: Studios, Family-Friendly Options & More!
No matter whether you are searching for a room in a house share, the first apartment of your own, a shared penthouse apartment with a view of the countryside or a furnished apartment for commuters, property seekers find a room or apartment to rent every day at newhome.ch.
What is your budget?
When starting to search for a room or apartment to rent, there is the question of the budget. The amount of rent is not only dependent on the number of rooms, living area or amenities; the location is also crucial for the price of a property. Those who would like to rent a 2.5-room apartment with 60sqm of living area in the centre of one of the top Swiss cities such as Zurich, Bern, Basel, Lucerne, St. Gallen or Geneva, for instance, must expect a significantly higher rent compared to a 2.5-room apartment with identical living area in a rural region. Our travel time search helps you to calculate the route to work with any mode of transport and restricts the search for your desired room or your dream apartment to rent.
Don’t spend more than one third of your income?
A tried-and-tested rule of thumb states that you should not spend more than a third of your available gross income on the rent for a room or apartment. Those who keep to this rule will increase their chances of being accepted for their new home. .
Pay attention to utility and service charges for the apartment?
At newhome.ch, the rents for a room and an apartment are usually shown both net without utility and service charges and also gross including utility and service charges. Nevertheless, you are well advised to read the lease carefully, as some utility and service charges can be charged separately by the landlord in Switzerland. You can find more information about this in our Advisor under “Rent”.
What are your desired criteria for the new apartment?
Once you have calculated your highest possible rent, other desired criteria for the new property come into play, such as the location of the apartment, floor, number of rooms, living area, property amenities, particularly the standard of the kitchen, balcony, the number of available parking spaces, proximity to public transport, the surrounding area in general and much more.
Checklists & tips for searching for your rented apartment?
In our Advisor, you will find useful tools that will help you search for a new apartment in Switzerland.
Speed up the vetting process with the CreditTrust creditworthiness certificate?
The paper debt collection statement is out. The creditworthiness certificate from CreditTrust, the digital alternative, is in. By ordering it online in a few minutes and inserting it directly into the apartment application, you will speed up your application process and increase the chance of being approved for the apartment over other tenants. You can order the CreditTrust creditworthiness certificate here: https://blog.newhome.ch/blog/en/credittrust-en/#tenants
If you would like to let your apartment or room, you can place your listing on newhome.ch for 14 days free of charge as a private individual. You can find out how to best let a property along with more information on letting in our Advisor area.