Prime Relocation
Full-service relocation · GenèvePrime Relocation is a family-owned relocation agency in Zug, founded in 2006, helping expats, families and HR teams with home search, permits, temporary housing, schools and settling in.
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Apartment search services in Genève
expat-services.ch lists 6 hand-checked English-speaking apartment search services in Genève, including Hauspass, HouseScout, Prime Relocation (our partner) and Auris Relocation (our partner).
Besides English, they also work in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Relocation agencies in Genève.
Apartment search services in Genève
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Auris Relocation
Full-service relocation · GenèveAuris Relocation is a Swiss relocation and global mobility firm with nine offices from Geneva to Lugano, handling permits, home search, schools and moves for companies and families.
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ReloNest
Destination services · GenèveReloNest is a Zurich-based relocation company, founded in 2023, that provides home search, school search, permits and settling-in help through consultants in nine Swiss cities.
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Welcome Service
Full-service relocation · GenèveWelcome Service is a family-owned relocation firm founded in 1990, with offices in Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich, handling permits, home search, schools and settling in for families and HR teams.
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Hauspass
Apartment search services · GenèveDelegated apartment search on the Lake Geneva arc: daily portal and private-listing monitoring, visits with photo/video reports, dossier preparation, negotiation and lease signing.
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HouseScout
Apartment search services · GenèveApartment-hunting service for Canton Zurich and Geneva: matches listings to your profile, visits properties in person and handles landlord communication; priced per service.
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Local facts
Apartment search services: what's particular to Geneva
The vacancy rate in the City was 0.37% (1 June 2026) (OCSTAT vacancy survey, checked ), and a 4-room flat averaged CHF 1,744 a month (May 2025) (OCSTAT rent statistics, checked ). While the shortage lasts, the landlord of a Geneva home must use the canton’s official form when a new lease is signed. The form states the previous tenant’s rent and charges, the new rent, the reason for any increase and the address of the conciliation commission, and it must be handed over at the latest on the day the keys are given (Canton of Geneva, checked ).
A tenant who finds the initial rent abusive can file a request with the Commission de conciliation en matière de baux et loyers, rue de l’Athénée 6-8, within 30 days of taking possession, and the procedure is free (Judiciary of Geneva, checked ). The canton’s newcomer guide lists an extract from the debt-enforcement register among the papers a flat application needs (ge.ch housing, checked ). The Office cantonal des poursuites issues it for CHF 17, ordered online with an e-démarches account, and it covers proceedings registered in Geneva that are open, or settled in the last five years and not withdrawn by the creditor (Canton of Geneva, checked ).
The City’s property management (GIM) lets social and free-market flats (City of Geneva, checked ), and the State pays a housing allowance to tenants whose rent weighs too heavily on their budget, capped at CHF 1,000 per room a year and at half the rent (Canton of Geneva, checked ).
Registering in Geneva
Newcomers announce their arrival to the cantonal population and migration office (OCPM), route de Chancy 88 in Onex (ge.ch OCPM, checked ). Most procedures run online through an e-démarches account on ge.ch, and the counters open by appointment only. The deadline after arrival is 14 days (2026) (ge.ch arrival, checked ), and a first B or L permit costs an EU/EFTA adult CHF 65 (Canton of Geneva, checked ). The steps are in registering at your commune.
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