Housing Policy towards Ownership in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Henner Kleinewefers and Rudolf H. Strahm

Chapter 9 in Economic Policy in Switzerland, 1997, pp 214-248 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One striking feature of the Swiss housing market is the very low proportion of households that own their home. This proportion is the lowest in the OECD, at 31.3 per cent in 1990. This compares to owner-occupation rates of twice that size in many other OECD countries (Table 9.1). There is a wide variation within Switzerland. The owner-occupation rates in primarily urban cantons such as Geneva (13.8 per cent), Basel-City (11.0), and Zurich (20.9) are much lower while rural cantons have rates over 50 per cent. The owner-occupied sector has always been a relatively small part of the housing market (Table 9.2).

Keywords: Interest Rate; Real Estate; House Price; Housing Market; Home Owner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25875-8_9

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