Context on housing construction, rents, interest rates and spatial planning, with a focus on Canton Zurich. Plus short updates on new features and a look behind the scenes at Baulens.
Why the City of Zurich has more homes despite many demolitions, and what the latest home price index tells you: two stories, put in context.
What a new-build apartment in the City of Zurich costs to rent, and what changes in heritage protection on 1 November: two stories, put in context.
Zurich adopts the stricter high-rise rules, and fixed-rate mortgages can get more expensive even with the policy rate at 0 percent: two stories, put in context.
More housing construction, vacancy below 1 percent, a high-rise vote in Zurich, the policy rate at 0 percent: two weeks, put in context for Canton Zurich.
The idea for Baulens came from my own search for a home. What the map of new-build projects in Canton Zurich shows, what it doesn't, and what comes next.
Baulens is now one subscription with every feature. You choose the billing period: CHF 29 for one month, CHF 69 for three months or CHF 109 for six months. The one-month subscription renews and can be cancelled at any time, the three- and six-month subscriptions end automatically.
The email digest with new projects now goes out every week instead of every two weeks. It's available to Standard and Pro subscribers. You sign up in your account and can unsubscribe at any time.
The municipality statistics now show the electricity price: the household tariff in Rappen (Swiss cents) per kilowatt hour, as a time series from 2011. As with the tax rate (Steuerfuss), a lower value is the cheaper one. The municipality statistics are part of Pro.
The map has five new layers: rail noise and road traffic noise at night, power lines, agricultural land use and the health insurance premium regions (Prämienregionen). That makes sixteen map layers from official sources to choose from. The map layers are part of Pro.
The map's location filter now has three levels: municipality, district and region. You can choose from the canton's twelve districts (Bezirke) and eight regions, from Lake Zurich to the Weinland. The map and the list then only show the projects in the selected area.
