ZURICH - Letting agents said the mid-winter stock of family flats in the city was thinner than in February 2025. Viewings for ordinary three-room apartments still produced queues. Applicants arrived with salary PDFs as if they were auditioning.
The cantonal density reform was then still months from a final vote. Landlords did not wait for it. They raised asking rents where the law allowed and chose the file with the quietest references.
What the council would later try
The September vote on station-area density, in our council report, grew out of winters like this one.