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Özgür Ogulkanmis

Founder & CEO of Swiss Expat Realtor and The Swiss Agency Immobilien, a Zurich-based real estate agency for expats, and host of the "Let's Talk About Swiss Real Estate" podcast.

Oct 27, 2026

13:44
And how do you prepare people to go through that process, which unless you have a very high budget, you are going to be competing with probably 30, 40, 50 families for whatever you're trying to buy?
13:54
Yes.
13:54
I mean, this is a deep topic, right? And you hit it right.
13:57
The market, even for the purchase, is also very tight.
13:59
So for us, usually based on our experience, the clients come first time, let's say the American client come first time to Switzerland, where they may be here for one, two years, and they start to think about this question.
14:11
And I think Purchasing, of course, on the one hand, you have the whole financials and so on.
14:15
But the other thing is also there are some other components that needs to be considered.
16:44
Can you talk through who can even buy in Switzerland right now?
13:44
And how do you prepare people to go through that process, which unless you have a very high budget, you are going to be competing with probably 30, 40, 50 families for whatever you're trying to buy?
13:54
Yes.
13:54
I mean, this is a deep topic, right? And you hit it right.
13:57
The market, even for the purchase, is also very tight.
13:59
So for us, usually based on our experience, the clients come first time, let's say the American client come first time to Switzerland, where they may be here for one, two years, and they start to think about this question.
14:11
And I think Purchasing, of course, on the one hand, you have the whole financials and so on.
14:15
But the other thing is also there are some other components that needs to be considered.
16:44
Can you talk through who can even buy in Switzerland right now?

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