Our in-house studies team identifies the potential for construction, extension or renovation, so you can sell your property faster and for a higher price.
The principle
A property sold as it stands is negotiated downwards. Property repositioning means documenting what the land allows you to build, extend or renovate, so you can sell the same property at its full potential value.
Sold as it stands, you are at the mercy of the market.
Your property is compared with others in the neighbourhood. Work to be done, outdated standards, unused building rights: every visible shortcoming becomes a bargaining chip in the buyer’s hands, whatever its cause. You sell at the price the market deems acceptable, without your property’s potential value being taken into account.
Repositioned, you set a new value.
The potential of the plot changes the comparison. Your property is no longer measured against comparable properties, but against the value of the project it makes possible. The buyer is buying a project that has already been worked up, with no unknowns to price in, and you capture the value the market attributes to that potential.
The finding
A roof that lets the heat escape, ageing insulation, outdated room layouts. The property attracts few viewings, and those lead nowhere. The rare offers come in below market, and each refusal reinforces the idea that the property will be costly, in money and in time, before it can be lived in. The seller’s position weakens the longer the property stays online.
Consequences:
Repositioning reverses this reading. Before the sale, we establish what the plot truly allows: buildable area, energy gains, rebuilding.
Benefits:
The benefits
Repositioning doesn’t just change how your property is presented. It changes what you get out of it.
A discount avoided
The buyer no longer negotiates on works or risk, because the file has already ruled them out.
A higher sale price
You capture the value of the plot’s potential, not just that of the existing building.
A faster sale
A documented property attracts an already-convinced buyer, rather than a hesitant private individual.
Your commitment
Study costs are never charged to you. They are built into the transaction and borne by the buyer or by the agency.
Your only commitment is an exclusive sales mandate, which allows us to engage our studies team on your property.
At your expense:
Your commitment:
The possibilities
In every case, you commit neither your time nor your money.
The plot doesn't use all of its building rights. Additional square metres, valued at new-build prices.
The structure is sound, only the layout and finishes are dated. Once renovated, the property sells at renovated-market prices.
The property exceeds the energy thresholds set by the canton. Once brought up to standard, it avoids mandatory works and gains in value.
The existing building is run-down, but the plot allows a new build, or even division into several building plots. This potential increases the value of the land.
The steps
01
We assess the property, the plot and your situation.
02
Our studies team visits the site and surveys the existing property.
03
Zoning, building rights, constraints, easements and diagnostics.
04
Several repositioning options, each with its exit value.
05
You choose the scenario, and we prepare the sales file.
06
The property is presented, together with its fully worked-up project, to the relevant buyers.
Online valuation
Value your property in Geneva
A first reading of the current value, with no obligation. The plot’s potential is then established during the technical visit.
Our studies team
An agency gives an opinion on a property. We produce a technical file. A civil engineer, a thermal engineer and an architect visit every plot we study, and their findings form the basis of the repositioning.
Civil engineer
Assesses the structure and what can be kept, raised or reworked.
Thermal engineer
Measures current performance and quantifies the achievable energy gain.
Architect
Draws up the workable scenarios and checks their regulatory feasibility.
General contractor
Estimates the construction costs of the chosen scenario.
Depending on the project:
The analysis criteria
A plot’s potential can’t be read from a single piece of data. Each criterion can open up a possibility or close one off, and it is how they combine that determines the realistic scenario.
Area and zoning
The exact area of the plot and its zoning designation set the framework for everything that can be considered.
Building rights
Land utilisation index and density bonuses that can be drawn on under your municipality’s master plan.
Planning
Municipal regulations, registered easements, boundary setbacks and height and massing constraints.
Vegetation
Identification of protected trees and of areas that must be retained for the project to proceed.
Ground and geology
Ground conditions and foundation positioning, a cost item that weighs heavily on the price of a rebuild.
Energy performance
Survey of the building’s current condition and calculation of the gain achievable after refurbishment.
Environment
Schools, transport, shops and accessibility, which determine the target buyer profile.
Orientation
Road or air noise, overlooking, orientation. These factors weigh on the siting of a building as much as on the price.
FAQ
An online valuation calculates a market value from comparable properties. It describes what your property is worth today, in its current condition. We add a second reading, that of the plot’s potential, established by our studies team after a technical visit. Both values are presented to you side by side.
Between one and three weeks, depending on the complexity of the project and the number of scenarios to be worked up. The technical visit takes place within days of the first conversation and does not depend on any administrative delay.
No. You don’t fund any works and you don’t manage any. What we sell is the plot together with a fully worked-up project. The works are carried out by the buyer, after the sale.
We tell you so. If the plot’s potential doesn’t justify repositioning, we guide you towards a conventional sale. You won’t have paid anything to find out.
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