After decades of continuous low inflation levels, real estate investors are experiencing an environment of elevated consumer price growth all around the world. In this publication, we underline our inflation and interest rate expectations and discuss the potential implications of this complex macroeconomic environment for the performance of Swiss real estate investments.
Investor demand for Swiss property remains strong despite the uncertain macroeconomic environment. We expect the future increase of the Swiss interest rate environment to be gradual. Swiss property investments are likely to remain an attractive alternative to a still low yielding bond market.
The residential sector in Switzerland has a surprise in store in 2021: the 12-year rise in the vacancy rate came to an end. On 1 June 2021, 9.5% fewer apartments were empty. One driver was the increased net immigration from abroad.