{"id":36376,"date":"2024-11-05T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdhouse.com\/ch\/?page_id=36376"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:52:31","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdhouse.com\/ch\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About crowdhouse<\/h1>\n

We enable collective, long-term co-ownership of Swiss income-generating properties \u2014 to grow wealth, support housing, and preserve land and real estate for future generations.<\/p>\n\n \n

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About us<\/h2>\n\n\n

Since 2015, we have been structuring and managing co-owner communities made up of private individuals and institutional investors who jointly hold Swiss income-generating properties \u2014 either as direct co-ownership with a personal land register entry (co-ownership) or as a shareholder in a real estate stock corporation (co-invest).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n

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What guides us<\/p>\n\n\n

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Until now, the Swiss population has carried the success of its own country primarily in one form: through rising rents. The increase in value of the properties people live in every day largely ends up with a small number of owners \u2014 often institutional investors whose capital is already concentrated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe that the increase in value of Swiss land should benefit those who live and work in Switzerland. Switzerland is a success model \u2014 and this success should be broadly distributed, not concentrated in a few hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of years ago, Swiss valleys had an answer to how land could remain in many hands: the commons, the corporation. In Schwyz, Uri, Glarus, Ticino, the Valais Geteilschaften, and the Bernese Burgergemeinden \u2014 throughout Switzerland there are models in which land is held jointly, used jointly, and passed on across generations. Not out of romanticism, but because it works: because collective, long-term ownership is more stable, more robust, and fairer than short-lived speculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

crowdhouse is a translation of this principle into the present. We work according to the principle of generational investment: properties are held for 10, 20, 30 years \u2014 and sometimes longer. Fair and stable tenant relationships and well-maintained properties are the foundation of the model.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Unlike historical corporations, membership is not defined by birth. It is open to all persons who are permitted to invest in Swiss residential income-generating properties under the Swiss Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG, \u201cLex Koller\u201d). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a community, we also actively pursue the goal of not only holding housing, but preserving it and actively expanding it. This is what we mean in concrete terms. Today, we already hold and maintain over 230 properties with a long-term generational horizon, without speculative pressure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, wherever planning regulations allow and it is economically viable, we create additional housing through densification, extensions, renovation, or new construction \u2014 contributions to a Swiss housing market that is among the most strained in Europe.
Without investments by private owners in income-generating properties, there would simply be significantly less housing for tenants. Owners and tenants need each other for housing to work.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n

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Our mission<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
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In times when savings accounts barely generate any interest anymore, responsible personal provision becomes a necessity. Swiss income-generating properties are among the most robust asset classes for preserving wealth, growing it, and passing it on to the next generation.

We make this asset class accessible to many.
We serve co-owners by helping them preserve and grow their wealth over the long term \u2014 and we serve tenants and society by creating and preserving housing, setting fair market rents, and maintaining properties sustainably.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n

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What we have achieved so far<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Since our founding in 2015, more than 1,750 owners have invested capital with us \u2014 on average three times per person, with cumulative invested capital of over CHF 700 million. Today, our co-owners jointly hold over 230 income-generating properties throughout German-speaking Switzerland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tThe trust reflected in this number is the foundation on which we continue to develop crowdhouse.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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1,750+<\/p>

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What makes us different<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\n\tReal ownership instead of an investment product\n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This is the fundamental difference between crowdhouse and traditional real estate investment products \u2014 and in practice, it has many consequences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a traditional real estate fund, investors subscribe to units in a vehicle that holds a portfolio of properties. Which properties, where they are located, and with which tenants \u2014 those decisions are made by the fund manager. The unit price follows an index or stock market price and often includes a significant premium or discount to net asset value: what you pay for a fund unit often has little to do with the real value of the underlying properties. In their behavior, listed real estate funds are therefore closer to ordinary shares than to real estate \u2014 with daily price fluctuations, high correlation to stock markets, and a tendency to fall along with the market during crises. What actually defines real estate \u2014 stable rental income, continuous value appreciation without major volatility, real tangible value \u2014 is only indirectly reflected in a fund unit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tAt crowdhouse, it is different. You choose for yourself which specific\n\tproperty you participate in and are directly involved in ownership \u2014\n\teither with an entry in the land register (co-ownership) or as a shareholder\n\tin a real estate stock corporation that holds the building\n\t(co-invest). You receive monthly distributions from rental income \u2014\n\ta reliable, transparent additional income. You participate directly in the\n\tproperty\u2019s value development over years and decades. Everything can be\n\ttracked and viewed at any time on our online platform.

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You choose for yourself<\/p>

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\n\tWhich property, which location, which tenant structure \u2014 your decision,\n\tnot that of a fund manager.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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You know your property<\/p>

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\n\tAddress, rents, cash flow, condition of the building structure, planned renovations \u2014\n\teverything is transparently documented.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Your value follows the property, not the stock market<\/p>

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\n\tNo daily price volatility, no premium-discount game, no sudden price drops\n\twhen an index falls. The value reflects the real property.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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You receive monthly income<\/p>

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\n\tDirectly from rental income \u2014 as a reliable additional income, not as a\n\tspeculative price opportunity.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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You are a real co-owner<\/p>

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\n\tWith participation at the general meeting, with voting rights, and with the right\n\tto personally view your property.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n\tIn our opinion, the crowdhouse model is even superior to traditional sole\n\townership of a property: you have the directness of a real owner \u2014 while\n\talso being able to diversify. Participating in several properties with\n\tmanageable amounts instead of tying all your assets to a single property\n\treduces the concentration risk that is real when holding individual rental\n\tapartments or a single apartment building \u2014 rent defaults, renovation needs,\n\tchanges in location quality. In this way, our model combines two otherwise\n\tseparate worlds: the directness of sole ownership and the security of\n\tdiversification.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tLiquidity is created through the crowdhouse platform by the direct transfer\n\tof shares between participants \u2014 no trading system, no stock exchange, no\n\tdaily price jumps, but an orderly transfer between a selling and an acquiring\n\tparticipant. \n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n

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Services, infrastructure, and software \u2014 inseparably linked to the co-owner communities<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

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Our model, in which thousands of co-owners jointly hold hundreds of properties with tens of thousands of rental units, is highly complex. It requires an operational backbone: someone who acquires, structures, and manages properties, informs co-owners, prepares meetings, enables share transfers, coordinates tenant concerns and investor communication, and manages finances, strategy, and value development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is exactly what we stand for. We provide all the services required for this and make the infrastructure available \u2014 the platform www.crowdhouse.com<\/a> and our self-developed crowdhouse OS. Without them, co-owner communities of this scale could neither be created nor function across generations. With them, the collective, long-term holding of Swiss income-generating properties becomes viable \u2014 with real-time transparency over property condition, management, rental income, and value development, in a form that no other real estate provider currently offers in this way.


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