Buying a home in Switzerland is getting increasingly costly, with prices rising 5% in just one year.

According to new figures from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), the price of home ownership in Switzerland rose by 1.9% in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the previous quarter. On an annual basis, property prices are now 5% higher.

The Residential Property Price Index (RPI) has reached 123.3 points. Over the past year, prices for single-family homes have gone up by 3.9%, while apartments have seen a sharper increase of 6.0%. In quarterly terms, house prices rose 1.5%, and apartment prices increased by 2.2%.

The RPI is a relatively new metric, launched in the third quarter of 2020, but includes data going back to Q2 2019. It’s based on an average of around 8,000 property transactions across Switzerland.

The FSO compiles this data using information from the country’s 28 largest mortgage lenders, which dominate the housing finance market—since most property purchases in Switzerland are funded through mortgages.