Looked around but haven't found good advice on my issue yet.



I am applying to flats in Zurich, but my current accommodation is a sublet, and I am not on a contract with a regie. For a new application form, what should I put in for "current landlord"? The person I sublet from? Will they actually contact them?

Hey, just put the name of your you subletter.
Best if you include other people as reference, like your boss or a neighbor if you don't find anyone.
Also in Zürich i alwasy attached my CV and a short presentation of myself (my wife).

OK, thanks. I suppose they would just call and ask if I am nice and pay the rent on time, right? Otherwise, I have a good reference letter from my old boss, and contact reference for my new boss. I'll include my CV and an intro letter as well.

So what comprises a 1 or 1.5 room apartment. Does the 1 room have no kitchen.

Excellent sticky, I am just about to move for the nth time but still learnt somethings. One possible correction. In all the flats that I have moved into, light fittings were not included other than those built into the ceiling or walls.

There is no official or legal definition of what constitutes a 1.5, 2.5 or 3.5 apartment.

An apartment will always have a kitchen and a bathroom. The kitchen may or may not be included in the 1.5, 2.5 etc definition (see below). A studio, for example, has one room, where the kitchen - usually a galley kitchen - is a part of the room. The bathroom is separate. So, a studio is a one room apartment.

The .5 can be a corner of a living room, for example an L-shape where the dining area makes up the .5.

This definition from the State
«Natürlich belichtete und belüftete Flächen von mindestens 5 Quadratmetern, die nicht als Zimmer angerechnet werden können, gelten als zusätzliche Flächenangebote oder halbe Zimmer».

"Areas with natural light and ventilation of at least 5 square meters, which cannot be counted as rooms, count as additional space or half rooms."

• eine mindestens 12 Quadratmeter grosse Wohnküche
• ein mindestens 6 Quadratmeter grosser Essbereich in der Küche
• ein mindestens 6 Quadratmeter grosser Vorraum oder Gang, häufig mit Garderobe

1. a kitchen area of ​​at least 12 square meters
2. a dining area of ​​at least 6 square meters in the kitchen
3. an anteroom or corridor of at least 6 square meters, often with cloakroom

Als ganze Zimmer zählen Wohn-, Schlaf-, Kinder- und Arbeitszimmer. Nicht als Zimmer zählen die Küche (Ausnahme Wohnküche) und das Badzimmer. Eine 2-Zimmer- beziehungsweise 2,5-Zimmer-Wohnung hat (in der Regel) ein Wohnzimmer, ein Schlafzimmer, eine Küche oder Wohnküche und ein Badzimmer.

Living room, bedroom, children's rooms and a study count as "whole" rooms. The kitchen (except kitchen/dining/living room) and the bathroom do not count as rooms. A 2-room or 2.5-room apartment has (usually) a living room, a bedroom, a kitchen or eat-in kitchen and a bathroom.

But to be sure, you really need to see a floorplan and/or photos.
It's also useful to know how many square metres the apartment has. A studio has around 20sqm

https://www.hausinfo.ch/de/home/meta...es-zimmer.html
in German or French only. But contact me if you need further info

Is there some service that blocks the guarantee money for you and requires a release from both sides? In Belgium this exists.

I find it a bit weird that you have to have 3 months of guarantee but you also get to keep it?

Specifically, I'm with UBS and I dislike them. Once I find a better bank I will move my business there, but what about this guarantee on a separate account?

Yes, it's called "Mieterkautionskonto" (sorry, never rented in the French part, don't know what they call it there) and it is the ONLY account you pay in your deposit! (Check out how many EFers did not do that over the years and complained here )

Thanks, apparantly it's "Dépôt de garantie de loyer".

What I don't understand is that ImmoScout says that this blocked account needs to be created by the landlord?

PS: How do you thank someone for their post, I don't see any buttons for that