“How to find a successful vacation home” Article in the Engadiner Post

A beautiful vacation home in the Upper Engadine is highly sought after. If you’re looking for one and then hear that yet another dream property has changed hands without you even knowing about the Sales, it can certainly be frustrating. You might wonder how you could find out earlier about properties coming onto the market. The answer is simple: with a free, personalized search profile.

The side effects of the coronavirus crisis, including working from home and more difficult travel options, have led to a significant increase in the attractiveness of vacations in your own country. Even though these measures may soon come to an end, the trend is not expected to reverse. Many Unterlanders have once again learned to appreciate the fact that they have a fantastic natural setting just two or three hours’ drive from home with endless outdoor activities, an above-average culinary offering and various attractive cultural and artistic events. The desire for a vacation home here is therefore great and obvious for various reasons.

Low Supply, High Demand
Because hardly any new vacation properties are being built—especially in the Upper Engadine—due to the passage of the second-home initiative, this rapidly growing demand is concentrated on a significantly smaller number of listings. As you can imagine, our phones are ringing off the hook as soon as we list an attractive property online. The time it takes to sell a property has been cut in half in recent years.

In order to offer our interested parties the opportunity to receive tailor-made offers at an early stage and before the official advertisement, we created the offer of an individualized search profile years ago, in the form of a short online questionnaire for the desired vacation apartment or house, which is stored on our website. As soon as a suitable offer is available in our Portfolio, you will be informed first and exclusively. And this also explains why you will never have access to all available properties on Homegate, Newhome or one of the many other platforms. Because if a buyer is found among the recipients of our notification, the property will never appear there either, as it could be sold in our own network.

Take advantage of the search profile
It takes less than five minutes to set up a search profile on our website. This will secure you a place in the front row. However, due to the limited supply, you may not hear from us for some time if your search request is too narrow. It is therefore better to enter your search profile in such a way that similar properties in the immediate vicinity are also listed. This flexibility keeps the selection wide enough. If you feel unsure about filling in the form, we will be happy to help you at our branch in St. Moritz.

Click here for the search profile