ZURICH - Letting agents in Wiedikon, Altstetten and Oerlikon said the mid-January stock of ordinary three-room flats was as thin as in December. A Tuesday evening viewing in a 1970s block near Hardbruecke drew 18 folders in the stairwell. Several applicants had come from Winterthur and Baden.
January is supposed to be a moving month. In Zurich it is a sorting month. Landlords pick the quietest salary PDF. Tenants who fail once try again on Thursday.
A winter that will last
The cantonal density file was then still in committee. The queues at these doors are the reason it later reached a vote, as we report in the February housing note and the September density decision.