Lex Koller Foreign-Buyer Permit and Second-Home Restriction in Switzerland

Researched from official sources · May 18, 2026

Foreign non-residents acquiring Swiss real estate need cantonal authorisation under Lex Koller (BewG / LFAIE / LAFE, SR 211.412.41). EU/EFTA nationals and third-country C-permit holders are exempt for personally-used property; third-country B-permit holders are exempt for an owner-occupied primary residence at their domicile. Holiday homes need cantonal quota (Valais, Graubünden hold the largest allocations). The Second Home Act (ZWG, SR 702) blocks new second-home permits in communes exceeding 20% second-home share (commune-level). A Federal Council consultation runs 15 April to 15 July 2026 — consultation only; current rules apply until any new statute enters into force (likely 2028 or later).

Estimated time

2 to 4 months for a routine primary-residence file once filed with the cantonal Lex Koller authority; 4 to 9 months for a holiday-home file in a quota-tight canton (Valais, Graubünden) where the application may be carried over to the following year if the annual quota is exhausted; 6 to 12 months for contested or complex commercial files

Cost

Cantonal authorisation fee (Bewilligungsgebühr) typically CHF1,000 to CHF5,000 for a standard residential authorisation, with complex commercial files higher; plus notarial fees of about 0.1% to 1.0% of the purchase price (cantonal); plus land-register fees of about 0.1% to 0.4% of the purchase price (cantonal); plus cantonal real-estate transfer tax (Handänderungssteuer) ranging from 0% in Zurich to about 3.3% in Geneva — confirm current fee schedules with the cantonal authority before filing

What You Need

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Additional Items

  • Current rules under Article 5 BewG (in force, 2026): a person abroad needs cantonal authorisation. EU and EFTA nationals with a lawful and actual residence on a B or C permit, and third-country C-permit holders with actual residence, are not persons abroad and are exempt for property they personally use, including a primary residence. Third-country B-permit holders are currently exempt for an owner-occupied primary residence at their place of lawful and actual residence.
  • Holiday-home cantonal quota (current 2026): federal annual ceiling of about 1,500 units distributed across cantonal allocations — Valais about 330 per year, Graubünden about 290 per year, smaller cantons (Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Uri, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Glarus, Jura, Schaffhausen) about 20 each, while several urban cantons including Zurich, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Aargau, Solothurn and Geneva in practice are not on the Annex 1 quota list and do not allow holiday-home acquisitions by non-residents at all
  • Commercial property (current 2026): an own-use establishment (a hotel that the foreign buyer operates, a manufacturing plant, an office occupied by the buyer's business) is permit-free; a capital-only investment property held for letting or leasing requires authorisation and is usually refused on the existing discretionary grounds
  • Second-home cap under ZWG Article 6: in communes where the second-home share exceeds 20 percent, no new second-home building permits are issued at all, even where a Lex Koller authorisation would otherwise be granted. The 20 percent threshold is commune-level, not cantonal. Acquisitions of existing pre-2012 second-home stock remain possible. The Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) publishes the annual list of communes above the threshold
  • Sub-federal in-flight — Valais cantonal practice tightening, effective 26 January 2026: the Valais land registry instructs notaries to refuse execution of sale deeds where a foreign buyer does not have a lawful and actual Swiss domicile at the time of signing — operational note for Valais transactions
  • Pending proposal: Lex Koller tightening (2026 consultation). On 15 April 2026 the Federal Council opened a public consultation on a preliminary draft revision of Lex Koller, with the consultation closing on 15 July 2026. The package proposes: (a) third-country B-permit holders lose the primary-residence exemption and would require cantonal authorisation even for an owner-occupied primary residence at their place of residence; (b) a two-year resale obligation on a third-country B-permit holder who acquires and later leaves Switzerland; (c) tighter cantonal holiday-home quotas; (d) resale of a holiday home from one person abroad to another would require a fresh permit; (e) prohibition on foreign acquisition of commercial property held for letting or leasing (only own-use business premises would remain permit-free); (f) new restrictions on foreign acquisition of listed shares in residential real-estate companies, units of regularly traded real-estate investment funds, and units of real-estate SICAVs (closing the indirect-acquisition route); (g) easing for hotel employee accommodation under Motion 22.4413 Schmid, with a two-year resale obligation if the accommodation is no longer needed. Realistic earliest entry into force is 2028 or later (parliamentary process and possible referendum); an earlier prior revision attempt was withdrawn after consultation in 2018. Consultation only — does not change current law as of authoring date. Applicants in 2026 and 2027 should plan to current law
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Step-by-Step

  1. 1

    Confirm Your Eligibility Before Signing Anything

    1. Confirm your status as a person abroad under Article 5 BewG, taking permit class, nationality, and intended property type into account (Applicant)
    2. Swiss citizens are never persons abroad; EU and EFTA nationals with a lawful and actual residence on a B or C permit and third-country C-permit holders with actual residence are not persons abroad for property they personally use
    3. Third-country B-permit holders are currently exempt for an owner-occupied primary residence at their place of lawful and actual residence (the in-flight 2026 consultation proposes removing this exemption)
    4. Confirm the property is in a canton (and, for a holiday home, a commune) that currently has a quota for your intended use — federal annual ceiling about 1,500 units, with Valais (about 330) and Graubünden (about 290) carrying the largest cantonal allocations and several urban cantons carrying zero
    5. For a holiday home, confirm the unit is within tourist-zone designation and meets size limits (net floor up to about 200 m²; land up to about 1,000 m²; year-round letting prohibited)
    6. For commercial property, confirm whether it will be used for the buyer's own business (permit-free under current rules) or as a capital-only investment (restricted and usually refused)
    7. For a new-build second home, confirm against the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) annual commune list that the commune is not above the 20% second-home threshold under ZWG Article 6

    💡 Tip: Obtain a written non-binding pre-assessment (Vorbescheid / décision préjudicielle) from the cantonal Lex Koller authority before negotiating the purchase agreement. This is standard practice and protects against an avoidable refusal.

    Federal Office of Justice — Acquisition of property by foreign non-residents (bj.admin.ch ↗)
  2. 2

    Prepare the Application File

    1. Engage a Swiss notary in the canton where the property is located — the notary commonly files the cantonal application on behalf of the buyer (Applicant + notary)
    2. Assemble the application contents: passport, residence-permit copy (if relevant), nationality evidence, draft purchase contract, land-register extract, property description and zoning, statement on intended use, statement on funding source
    3. For a holiday home: confirmation the unit is within tourist-zone designation and within size limits
    4. For corporate buyers: register of commerce extract, articles of association, beneficial-owner statement, control structure, audited accounts
    5. For C-permit holders relying on the residence exemption: settlement-permit copy; for EU/EFTA nationals: B or C permit copy plus residence confirmation from the commune
    6. Power of attorney to the notary or legal representative authorising filing of the application

    💡 Tip: Some cantons require advance payment of the authorisation fee before the file is registered. Confirm the cantonal practice with the notary before submitting.

  3. 3

    File the Application with the Cantonal Lex Koller Authority

    1. Identify the first-instance Lex Koller authority for the canton — Zurich: the competent Bezirksrat (district council), with the Amt für Wirtschaft as cantonal coordinator; Graubünden: Grundbuchinspektorat und Handelsregister (GIHA); Geneva: Département des institutions et du numérique (DIN), Direction juridique; Valais (Wallis): Service du développement économique, with the cantonal land registry coordinating notarial enforcement (Authority — varies by canton)
    2. For any other canton, consult the federal Office of Justice consolidated contact list (cantonal authorities PDF)
    3. The buyer (or the notary as representative) files the application — paper or cantonal portal depending on canton
    4. Pay the cantonal authorisation fee (Bewilligungsgebühr) — typical range CHF 1,000 to CHF 5,000 for a standard residential authorisation; some cantons require advance payment
    5. Keep the filing receipt and the canton's acknowledgment of receipt with the property file

    💡 Tip: Where the contract has been drafted subject to obtaining cantonal authorisation, file the application immediately after the contract is signed so that the procedure runs in parallel with the conveyancing schedule.

    Canton Zurich — Property acquisition by persons abroad (zh.ch ↗) Canton Graubünden — Property acquisition by persons abroad (GIHA) (gr.ch ↗) Canton Geneva — Acquisition de bien immobilier par des personnes à l'étranger (ge.ch ↗)
  4. 4

    Receive the Cantonal Authorisation Decision

    1. The cantonal authority reviews on the statutory grounds set out in BewG and any cantonal implementing law (Authority — cantonal Lex Koller authority)
    2. Authorisation can be granted only on the grounds listed in the law
    3. For holiday homes, the unit is charged against the cantonal annual quota — if the quota is exhausted, the application is held over to the next year or refused
    4. Conditions are routinely attached: personal occupation only, no year-round letting, no resale to another person abroad without renewed authorisation, registration of a Lex Koller restriction note in the land register
    5. Outcomes are an authorisation (subject to conditions), a refusal (with reasons), or a request for further information that pauses the procedure
    6. The Federal Office of Justice retains a statutory right to appeal cantonal decisions to higher courts; the cantonal appeal authority (typically the cantonal administrative court) is the route for the applicant to contest a refusal

    💡 Tip: Read the conditions carefully. Common conditions (personal occupation, no year-round letting, no resale without renewed authorisation) bind successive owners and limit future flexibility on the property.

  5. 5

    Notarial Recording and Land-Register Entry

    1. After authorisation, the Swiss notary prepares the public deed of sale (Applicant + notary)
    2. The deed cannot be executed and the transfer cannot be recorded in the land register without the cantonal Lex Koller authorisation; otherwise the legal act is null and void
    3. In Valais, the cantonal land registry has, since 26 January 2026, instructed notaries to refuse execution of sale deeds where a foreign buyer does not have a lawful and actual Swiss domicile at signing — a tightening of cantonal practice
    4. The notary submits the executed deed and the cantonal authorisation to the cantonal land registry (Grundbuchamt / registre foncier) for entry
    5. The Lex Koller restriction is recorded in the land register and binds successive owners
    6. Pay the notarial fees (Notariatsgebühren — typically 0.1% to 1.0% of the purchase price), land-register fees (Grundbuchgebühr — typically 0.1% to 0.4%), and cantonal real-estate transfer tax (Handänderungssteuer — 0% Zurich to about 3.3% Geneva, with several cantons in the 1% to 2% range)

    💡 Tip: Confirm with the notary the exact cantonal scale for notarial fees, land-register fees, and transfer tax before signing. Several cantons cap notarial fees but others leave them to free negotiation.

  6. 6

    Maintain Ongoing Compliance with the Authorisation Conditions

    1. Personal-occupation conditions continue to apply after acquisition — the Lex Koller restriction note in the land register travels with the property (Owner)
    2. A change of use (for example, conversion of a holiday home to a year-round let, or sale to another person abroad) requires renewed cantonal authorisation
    3. Holiday-home owners must comply with the year-round letting prohibition — seasonal letting only
    4. Breach of conditions or unauthorised acquisitions are criminally sanctioned: custodial up to three years, financial penalties scaled to assets, fines up to about CHF 50,000, alongside reversal of the transaction and forced sale
    5. Track the in-flight 2026 consultation outcome and any subsequent statute — the consultation closes 15 July 2026 and realistic earliest entry into force is 2028 or later, but a B-permit holder planning to leave Switzerland after acquisition should monitor the two-year resale obligation proposal

    💡 Tip: Where the purchase is in a quota-saturated canton and the timeline pushes settlement into the following calendar year, plan the financing schedule and any vendor deadlines around the cantonal quota cycle.

Local Tips from the Community

  • Obtain a written non-binding pre-assessment (Vorbescheid / décision préjudicielle) from the cantonal Lex Koller authority before negotiating a purchase agreement — it is standard practice and protects the buyer against an avoidable refusal
  • Cantonal authorisation is required for the legal act to be valid: a Swiss notary cannot execute the public deed of sale and the transfer cannot be recorded in the land register without it, and the legal act is null and void if signed without authorisation
  • Holiday-home applications in Valais and Graubünden routinely use the full cantonal annual quota in peak years — filing in January or February improves the chance of slotting into that year's quota
  • The Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) publishes an annual list of communes where the second-home share exceeds 20 percent under ZWG Article 6 — confirm commune status before any new-build or change-of-use plan
  • Routing a residential acquisition through a Swiss SA or SARL does not bypass Lex Koller: foreign control of the Swiss entity triggers the regime, and nominee or trust acquisitions on behalf of a foreign principal are explicitly caught
  • From 26 January 2026 the Valais cantonal land registry instructs notaries to refuse execution of sale deeds where a foreign buyer does not have a lawful and actual Swiss domicile at signing — confirm domicile timing with the notary before contracting

What Could Go Wrong

File the application with the cantonal Lex Koller authority: Holiday-home cantonal quota for the year is exhausted at the time of filing

Recovery: The application is held over to the next calendar year — expect 6 to 12 months in Valais and Graubünden during peak years. Filing in January or February of the next year improves the chance of slotting into that year's quota. Where the contract has a hard completion deadline, negotiate an extension with the vendor, draft the contract with a longer authorisation-conditional period, or pivot to a property in a canton with available quota.

Prepare the application file (commercial property): The intended use is investment-only (held for letting or leasing), not own-business use

Recovery: Investment-only commercial property requires authorisation under current rules and is usually refused on the existing discretionary grounds. The in-flight 2026 consultation proposes a clear prohibition on foreign acquisition of commercial property held for letting or leasing. Consider whether the buyer's own business will occupy the premises (permit-free), or restructure the acquisition through a Swiss-resident operating entity that genuinely occupies the property. Routing through a Swiss SA or SARL under foreign control does not bypass Lex Koller — foreign control of the Swiss entity triggers the regime.

Confirm property eligibility (new-build second home): Commune is on the ARE annual list of communes above the 20% second-home threshold under ZWG Article 6

Recovery: No new second-home building permits will be issued in the commune, even where a Lex Koller authorisation would otherwise be granted under BewG. Consider acquiring existing pre-2012 second-home stock in the same commune (this remains possible), or pivot to a primary-residence acquisition (own occupation), or look at a commune that is below the threshold. Confirm the current commune status against the ARE annual list before any further contract steps.

Notarial recording (Valais): Foreign buyer does not have a lawful and actual Swiss domicile at the time of signing

Recovery: From 26 January 2026 the Valais cantonal land registry instructs notaries to refuse execution of sale deeds in this situation. The buyer must establish actual Swiss domicile before signing — register with the commune (Anmeldung beim Einwohnerkontrollamt) and obtain the residence confirmation. Where domicile cannot be established in time, the transaction cannot complete through a Valais notary under current Valais practice; consider deferring the contract date or restructuring to ensure the buyer holds the residence-based exemption (EU/EFTA B/C permit or third-country C permit) by the signing date.

Costs

Item Amount Payment Notes
Cantonal authorisation fee (Bewilligungsgebühr) — typical low end, standard residential CHF1,000 Paid to the cantonal Lex Koller authority on filing (some cantons require advance payment of the authorisation fee) Cantons set their own fee scales and they vary substantially. Confirm the current scale with the cantonal authority before filing. Holiday-home authorisations in high-quota tourist cantons (Valais, Graubünden) commonly sit in the lower-to-mid part of the typical range.
Cantonal authorisation fee (Bewilligungsgebühr) — typical high end, standard residential CHF5,000 Paid to the cantonal Lex Koller authority on filing Upper end of the typical published range for a standard residential authorisation. Larger and more complex commercial files reach higher amounts. Confirm the current cantonal fee schedule before filing — fee scales change without notice.
Cantonal authorisation fee (Bewilligungsgebühr) — typical low end, standard residential CHF1,000
Payment:
Paid to the cantonal Lex Koller authority on filing (some cantons require advance payment of the authorisation fee)
Notes:
Cantons set their own fee scales and they vary substantially. Confirm the current scale with the cantonal authority before filing. Holiday-home authorisations in high-quota tourist cantons (Valais, Graubünden) commonly sit in the lower-to-mid part of the typical range.
Cantonal authorisation fee (Bewilligungsgebühr) — typical high end, standard residential CHF5,000
Payment:
Paid to the cantonal Lex Koller authority on filing
Notes:
Upper end of the typical published range for a standard residential authorisation. Larger and more complex commercial files reach higher amounts. Confirm the current cantonal fee schedule before filing — fee scales change without notice.
Total: CHF6,000

FAQ

Documents

Who is a person abroad under Article 5 BewG?

A person abroad under Article 5 BewG is: a foreign national without a Swiss residence (no actual and lawful domicile in Switzerland); a third-country national resident in Switzerland but holding a B residence permit only (currently exempt for an owner-occupied primary residence — the in-flight 2026 consultation proposes removing this exemption); a legal entity with a registered office abroad; a legal entity with a Swiss registered office that is under foreign control (capital or voting); and persons acquiring as nominees or trustees for a foreign principal (Article 5 paragraph 1 letter d BewG). Swiss citizens are never persons abroad. EU and EFTA nationals with a lawful and actual residence in Switzerland on a B or C permit, and third-country C-permit holders with actual residence, are not persons abroad and are exempt for property they personally use, including a primary residence and a holiday home for personal use.

Does a dual-citizen need authorisation?

A Swiss citizen is never a person abroad, even if also holding a foreign passport. The Swiss passport is decisive and no Lex Koller authorisation is needed for a property acquisition by a Swiss citizen. Where a person holds both a foreign passport and a Swiss passport, the Swiss passport overrides the foreign nationality for the person-abroad determination.

Are inherited properties caught?

A person abroad who inherits property by statutory succession from a relative is exempt from the cantonal authorisation requirement. Acquisition by a testamentary disposition that is not statutory succession may still require authorisation depending on the relationship and the property class. Transfers between spouses or registered partners as part of a matrimonial-property split or divorce settlement are exempt in most cantonal practice, but the cantonal authority should be consulted in advance.

Costs

How do cantonal holiday-home quotas work?

Holiday-home authorisations for persons abroad are charged against a federal annual ceiling of about 1,500 units distributed across cantonal quotas under Annex 1 to the BewG implementing ordinance. Current 2026 indicative allocations: Valais (Wallis) about 330 per year and Graubünden about 290 per year carry the largest quotas; Bern, Vaud, and Ticino receive smaller allocations; Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Uri, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Glarus, Jura and Schaffhausen carry quotas of about 20 each. Several urban cantons including Zurich, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Aargau, Solothurn, and Geneva in practice are not on the Annex 1 list and do not allow holiday-home acquisitions by non-residents at all. Where the quota is exhausted, the application is held over to the next calendar year or refused. Filing in January or February improves the chance of slotting into that year's quota.

How does the Second Home Act (ZWG) interact with Lex Koller?

The Federal Act on Second Homes (Zweitwohnungsgesetz, ZWG / Loi sur les résidences secondaires / Legge sulle abitazioni secondarie, SR 702, of 20 March 2015, in force 1 January 2016) is a separate regime that blocks new second-home building permits in communes where the second-home share already exceeds 20 percent (Article 6 ZWG). The 20 percent threshold is commune-level, not cantonal. The Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) publishes the annual list of communes above the threshold. A Lex Koller authorisation for a new-build holiday home is not enough if the commune is above the 20 percent threshold under ZWG — the building permit will not be issued. Acquisitions of existing pre-2012 second-home stock remain possible. Confirm commune status against the ARE list before signing any contract for a new-build second home.

After This Process

  • → Engage a Swiss notary in the canton where the property is located before signing any contract — the notary commonly files the cantonal Lex Koller application and runs the notarial recording at completion
  • → Obtain a written non-binding pre-assessment (Vorbescheid / décision préjudicielle) from the cantonal Lex Koller authority before negotiating the purchase agreement
  • → Confirm the current cantonal authorisation fee scale and the current holiday-home quota status (for holiday-home files) with the cantonal authority — both change without notice
  • → Check the ARE annual list of communes above the 20% second-home threshold for any new-build second-home plans
  • → Track the in-flight 2026 Lex Koller consultation (opened 15 April 2026, closes 15 July 2026) — current rules apply now, but a B-permit holder planning a primary-residence acquisition should plan to current law and monitor the consultation outcome before signing any contract whose completion would fall after a hypothetical entry into force (realistic earliest 2028 or later)

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    Federal Office of Justice (BJ / OFJ / UFG / FOJ) 2026-05-18

    Federal Office of Justice page on Lex Koller / ANRA. 'Federal Act on the Acquisition of Immovable Property in Switzerland by Foreign Non-Residents (ANRA; also known as the Lex Koller)'; 'It generally requires authorisation from the competent cantonal authority'; 'Enforcement of ANRA is therefore primarily a matter for the canton in which the property is located'; 'Authorisation can only be granted on the grounds set out in ANRA and, where applicable, the related cantonal legislation.' The page also states that EU and EFTA nationals with a B or C residence permit and a lawful and actual residence in Switzerland are not persons abroad, and that third-country C-permit holders with actual residence are treated equivalently. The information sheet confirms: Drittstaatsangehörige … dürfen jedoch bewilligungsfrei eine Wohnliegenschaft (Hauptwohnung) erwerben, wenn sie diese selbst am Ort des rechtmässigen und tatsächlichen Wohnsitzes bewohnen. The cantonal authorities contact list PDF was last updated 17 April 2026.

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    Federal Office of Justice (BJ) 2026-05-18

    Federal Office of Justice consultation page Revision Lex Koller. Confirms the public consultation on a preliminary draft revision of Lex Koller opened on 15 April 2026 and closes on 15 July 2026. The package implements accompanying measures decided by the Federal Council on 29 January 2025 following the rejection of the popular initiative No 10-Million-Switzerland (Sustainability Initiative), and implements Motion 22.4413 Schmid on hotel employee accommodation. Consultation only — does not change current law.

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    Federal Council — Press release 2026-05-18

    Federal Council press release Bundesrat will den Grundstückerwerb für Personen im Ausland weiter beschränken (15 April 2026). Confirms consultation period 15 April 2026 to 15 July 2026. Package proposes: third-country B-permit holders lose the owner-occupied primary-residence exemption and would require cantonal authorisation; two-year resale obligation on a B-permit holder who acquires and later leaves Switzerland; tighter cantonal holiday-home quotas; resale of a holiday home from one person abroad to another requires a fresh permit; prohibition on foreign acquisition of commercial property held for letting or leasing (only own-use business premises remain permit-free); restrictions on foreign acquisition of listed residential real-estate company shares, regularly traded real-estate investment fund units, and real-estate SICAV units (closing the indirect-acquisition route); easing for hotel employee accommodation with a two-year resale obligation if the accommodation is no longer needed.

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    Federal Chancellery — fedlex.admin.ch 2026-05-18

    Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (Bundesgesetz über den Erwerb von Grundstücken durch Personen im Ausland, BewG / Loi fédérale sur l'acquisition d'immeubles par des personnes à l'étranger, LFAIE / Legge federale sull'acquisto di fondi da parte di persone all'estero, LAFE), SR 211.412.41, of 16 December 1983, in force 1 January 1985. Article 2 sets the authorisation requirement; Article 4 defines acquisition; Article 5 defines persons abroad; Article 9 governs the primary-residence exemption.

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    Federal Chancellery — fedlex.admin.ch 2026-05-18

    Federal Act on Second Homes (Zweitwohnungsgesetz, ZWG / Loi sur les résidences secondaires / Legge sulle abitazioni secondarie), SR 702, of 20 March 2015, in force 1 January 2016. Article 6 paragraph 1 prohibits the issuance of new second-home building permits in communes where the second-home share exceeds 20 percent (commune-level, not cantonal).

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    Canton Zurich — Amt für Wirtschaft 2026-05-18

    Canton Zurich page Grundstückerwerb durch Personen im Ausland. Confirms the competent Bezirksrat (district council) of the district where the property is located is the first-instance Lex Koller decision authority, with the Amt für Wirtschaft as cantonal coordinator. Contact: Walchestrasse 19, Postfach, 8090 Zürich; phone +41 43 259 30 30.

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    Canton Graubünden — Grundbuchinspektorat und Handelsregister (GIHA) 2026-05-18

    Canton Graubünden page on Lex Koller. Confirms the Grundbuchinspektorat und Handelsregister (GIHA) in Chur as the cantonal Lex Koller authority. The canton receives an annual federally assigned holiday-home contingent (about 290 units per year on current allocations).

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    Canton Geneva — Département des institutions et du numérique (DIN) 2026-05-18

    Canton Geneva page Acquisition de bien immobilier par des personnes à l'étranger. Confirms the Département des institutions et du numérique (DIN), Direction juridique, as the competent cantonal authority. Address: Rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville 14, Case postale 3952, 1211 Genève 3.

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    Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) 2026-05-18

    Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) page on second homes (Zweitwohnungen). ARE is the federal lead for the Second Home Act (ZWG, SR 702, in force 1 January 2016). ARE publishes the annual list of communes where the second-home share exceeds the 20 percent threshold under ZWG Article 6 (commune-level, not cantonal).

    are.admin.ch
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