Prime Relocation
Full-service relocation · LausannePrime 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.
Home search services
Apartment search services in Lausanne
expat-services.ch lists 5 hand-checked English-speaking apartment search services in Lausanne: Hauspass, Prime Relocation (our partner), Welcome Service (our partner), Auris Relocation (our partner) and ReloNest (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 Lausanne.
Apartment search services in Lausanne
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Welcome Service
Full-service relocation · LausanneWelcome 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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Auris Relocation
Full-service relocation · LausanneAuris 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 · LausanneReloNest 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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Hauspass
Apartment search services · LausanneDelegated 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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Local facts
Apartment search services: what's particular to Lausanne
The count of empty homes was 523 (1 June 2026) (Statistique Vaud, checked ), and the city's table lists 497 of them as to let: 126 one-room, 136 two-room and 143 three-room flats (lausanne.ch statistics, checked ). The net rent of an occupied 3-room flat averaged CHF 1,408 a month (2020 to 2024) (Statistique Vaud (FSO data), checked ), while 3-room flats let for less than two years averaged CHF 1,668 across Canton Vaud in 2024 (Statistique Vaud (FSO data), checked ).
A rental file usually includes a debt-collection extract (lausanne.ch, checked ). The Office des poursuites du district de Lausanne is at Chemin du Trabandan 28 (Canton of Vaud, checked ); the extract costs CHF 18, can be ordered online, goes out the same day when ordered before 14:00 and is no longer issued at the counter (Canton of Vaud, checked ). In districts with a housing shortage, Vaud requires landlords to use an official form that shows the previous tenant's rent when a new lease is signed, and the canton's order for 2025 exempted only Aigle and Broye-Vully (Canton of Vaud, checked ).
The usual end-of-lease dates in Vaud are 1 April, 1 July and 1 October at noon (Canton of Vaud (RULV), checked ). A tenancy dispute starts at the conciliation commission of the district where the flat lies, chaired by a prefect with one tenant and one landlord assessor (Canton of Vaud, checked ); requests for Lausanne go to the Préfecture, Place du Château 1 (Canton of Vaud, checked ).
Registering in Lausanne
Newcomers register with the Service du contrôle des habitants at Rue du Port-Franc 18. The registration deadline is 14 days (2026) (lausanne.ch, checked ). Arrivals from abroad or from another canton book a counter appointment and attend in person with a complete file (lausanne.ch, checked ), and the city's fee schedule sets CHF 30 for registering an arrival (lausanne.ch, checked ). For the national rules, see registering at your commune.
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