Information on asking price index

Wüest & Partner's asking price indices are regularly published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) newspaper and Wüest & Partner's Immo-Monitoring property market reports. They are calculated for the following use classes: rented apartments, owner-occupied apartments, single-family houses, office, retail and industrial space. The nationwide indices are updated on a quarterly and the market region indices on a semi-annual basis.

Index revision of 19.4.2006

Since the index revision of 19.1.2006, the data used in determining the supply indicators for the real estate market (asking price indices and number of properties on offer) have included Internet advertisements (retrospectively to 2002) in addition to advertisements published in the print media. A number of technical adjustments had to be made in Q1 2006 to ensure proper integration of the Internet data. As a result, the newly posted values are no longer amenable to comparison with those previously published by Wüest & Partner.

Market regions

The market regions used for the residential indices are defined as follows:

Market region
Cantons
Zurich
SH, ZH
Eastern Switzerland
AI, AR, SG, TG
Central Switzerland
GL, LU, NW, OW, SZ, UR, ZG
North-western Switzerland AG, BL, BS, SO
Bern BE
Southern Switzerland GR, TI, VS
Lake Geneva GE, VD (municipalities by Lake Geneva)
Western Switzerland FR, JU, NE, VD (rural municipalities)

The market regions used for the commercial indices are based on Switzerland's main business centres (Zurich, Basel, Bern and Geneva).

Further details on the asking price indices are provided in this PDF document (german).

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Base data

Annual nationwide indices, base 1970
Source: Wüest & Partner AG Immo-Monitoring property market report
Survey status: 2008-06-30
Last update: 2008-07-09
Next update: 2009-01-10
Geographical coding: OG-2008

Annual regional indices for housing, office and industrial space, base 1970
Source: Wüest & Partner AG Immo-Monitoring property market report
Survey status: 2008-06-30
Last update: 2008-07-09
Next update: 2009-01-10
Geographical coding: OG-2008

Quarterly nationwide indices for housing, base 1970
Source: Wüest & Partner AG Immo-Monitoring property market report
Survey status: 2008-09-30
Last update: 2008-10-07
Next update: 2009-01-10
Geographical coding: OG-2008

Quarterly nationwide indices, base 1996
Source: Wüest & Partner AG Immo-Monitoring property market report
Survey status: 2008-09-30
Last update: 2008-10-07
Next update: 2009-01-10
Geographical coding: OG-2008

Semi-annual regional indices, base 1996
Source: Wüest & Partner AG Immo-Monitoring property market report
Survey status: 2008-06-30
Last update: 2008-07-09
Next update: 2009-01-10
Geographical coding: OG-2008

Monthly nationwide supply levels
Source: Wüest & Partner AG Immo-Monitoring property market report
Survey status: 2008-09-30
Last update: 2008-10-07
Next update: 2009-01-10
Geographical coding: OG-2008

Monthly regional supply levels
Source: Wüest & Partner AG Immo-Monitoring property market report
Survey status: 2008-09-30
Last update: 2008-10-07
Next update: 2009-01-10
Geographical coding: OG-2008