"How to succeed in the search for a holiday home" Engadiner Post article

What to do when properties are increasingly being sold before they appear on the usual sales platforms.

A beautiful holiday home in the Upper Engadine is much sought after. If you are looking for one and then hear how another dream property has changed hands without you being aware of the sale, it can cause a certain amount of annoyance. One wonders how one could get information earlier about what is coming on the market. The answer is simple: with a free and individual search profile.

The side effects of the Corona crisis with home offices and more difficult travel options have led to a significant increase in the attractiveness of holidays in one's own country. Even if these measures may soon come to an end, a reversal of the trend is not to be expected. After all, many people from the Unterland have learned to appreciate again the fact that they have a dreamlike natural setting with almost endless outdoor activities, an above-average culinary offer and various attractive cultural and artistic events available just two or three hours' drive from home. The desire for a holiday home here is therefore great and obvious for various reasons.

Supply low, pace high
Because hardly any new holiday properties are being built, especially in the Upper Engadine, due to the approved second-home initiative, this strongly increased demand is concentrated on significantly fewer offers. As you can imagine, our phones start ringing off the hook as soon as we put an attractive property online. The time it takes to sell a property has halved in recent years.

In order to nevertheless offer our interested parties the possibility of receiving tailor-made offers at an early stage and before the official announcement, we created the offer of an individualised search profile years ago in the form of a short online questionnaire about the desired holiday flat or house, which is stored on our website. As soon as a corresponding 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 there is a buyer among the recipients of our notification, the property will never appear there either, since it could be sold in our own network.

Make use of the search profile
Setting up such a search profile on our website takes less than five minutes. This will secure you a place in the front row. However, due to the small number of offers, you may not hear from us for a long time if your search request is too narrow. It is therefore better to enter your search profile in such a way that you are also shown similar properties in the immediate vicinity. This flexibility keeps the selection wide enough. If you feel unsure when filling out the form, we will be happy to help you at our branch in St. Moritz.

Click here for the search profile