Swiss housing acutely scarce again

Switzerland’s housing market tightened further in 2026 to reach a vacancy rate below 1% for the first time since 2013. On June 1st, 45,493 homes stood empty, according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), equivalent to 0.93% of the housing stock. Photo by Adrien Olichon on Pexels.com That was 0.07 percentage points lower than a year earlier. The number of vacant homes fell by 2,962, or 6.1%. It was the sixth consecutive annual decline in the vacancy rate, which has fallen by 0.79 percentage points since 2021. The squeeze has coincided with a sharp rise in rents and a marked shift in the ownership of rental housing. Between 2000 and 2023…