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Housing cooperatives · Switzerland

Which cooperative suits you?

cooperatives.ch shows Switzerland's non-profit housing cooperatives (Wohnbaugenossenschaften): who takes new members, which flats are free, what is being built and how to get in. Every fact with its source.

As of 30 Oct 2026.

1'130cooperatives and foundations listed128'289flats in them274take members80with free flats306projects planned or under construction

What you see with access

The dashboard behind the login, as it looks today: real data, not a mock-up.

The dashboard: cooperatives sorted by fit for a family in Zurich, next to the map of Switzerland.

Suits me

The list sorts itself by your household

Say how many you are, how many rooms you need and where you are looking. 1'130 cooperatives are sorted by fit; what rules you out drops away, and «Why?» shows every point. Worked out in your browser: your answers do not leave it.

Free flats: a list with rooms, floor area and rent next to a map of Switzerland.

Free flats

223 flats advertised now

Several times a day we read 365 listings pages of cooperatives and foundations. Rooms, floor area, rent and move-in date on a map, with the link straight to the listing.

Savings: for a rent of CHF 2'400 in the canton of Zurich, CHF 700 saved a month, the share capital covered after 11 months.

Savings

What you save, in francs

Enter what you pay today. Next to it are the rents cooperatives in your area give for flats of the same size, the share capital (Anteilscheinkapital) you pay in when you join, and after how many months the saving has covered it.

New builds: projects open for applications, with an aerial photo, the number of flats and the allocation rules.

New builds

306 new builds, before they are advertised

Planned, under construction, first letting: sorted by year, with the allocation rules and the deadline to apply. Members who join early often have priority at the first letting.

Learn about housing cooperatives

How cooperatives work and how they grew up across Switzerland, every fact with its source.

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With access you see every cooperative with all its facts and sources, the map, the free flats across Switzerland, the comparison and «Suits me»: which cooperatives suit your household, worked out in your browser.

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