Buying a farmhouse in Switzerland.

Buying a farmhouse and benefiting from the various possibilities.

Buying a farmhouse opens up a wide range of potential uses. In Switzerland’s big cities, such as Zurich, Basel, Bern or Geneva, many residents have spent a large part of their lives in an urban environment and worked there too. These are the very people who often feel like a radical change on reaching retirement age and swapping the fast pace of urban live for a rural idyll. A farmhouse offers the perfect conditions for this.

But there are investors too, who buy a farmhouse with a view to getting a return on it. Older farmhouses in particular will often require renovation and can be had for a relatively low purchase price. The investor is able to fully renovate the house they bought cheaply and then sell it on at a much higher price. Particularly with farmhouses near urban areas, there is also the option to repurpose them as apartment buildings, with a view to achieving a long-term return in the form of regular rental income.

Then there are the numerous working people who would prefer to pursue some kind of agricultural activity, as opposed to their current office job. Buying a farmhouse opens up various opportunities in such cases: people can stick to growing herbs, vegetables and fruit or keep various animals too. The harvest and other products like meat, milk and cheese can either be sold to large producers or offered for sale in their own farm shop.