The city of Zurich is seeking a tenant for 10’000-Swiss francs-WG

It is a unique process, when the city rubs an apartment for almost 10’000 Swiss francs a month rent exclusive. And it is not a simple apartment, for which she is currently seeking new tenants, but a complete house with 13 rooms. The Old Trot on the North road in Wipkingen, a building from the 16th century. Century, which is set for a couple of months consuming maintenance.

So out of character as the object, the tenants, after the city in this case, the addiction is: It must be at least 10 people sharing the house as a residential community and set up a club. It could be a seniors-rent in the face of the old centre is built next door, new, would, for example. Also possible is a multi-generation household or a motley assortment of individuals.

So Trot looked before the rebuild.

With such forms of communal living experiment in recent times, especially the newer cooperatives such as the lime in width or More than Living. For the city, according to Kuno Gurtner, the spokesman of real estate city of Zurich, a rather uncharted territory. Where: In the Trotte a WG lived before the tag. These residents would have returned after the renovation, but the city notified them that they will write out the house after the reconstruction and you would have to apply again as other interested parties.

Change is the rent compared to the past is also required. This should be according to original plans 7330 francs per month, now risen to 9425 francs – at no extra cost. This is according to Gurtner in mind that the value of the Building, which included, in addition to the construction costs in the calculation of the so-called cost of rent is much higher than expected. The cantonal buildings insurance instead of estimates, the converted house on nearly 2.2 million Swiss francs, as expected, to 1.4 million. In addition, the construction costs were a quarter of a million of the estimated 3.5 million francs, because of the condition of the house was worse than expected.

The tag is currently still in progress, the reference is planned for October. The house, according to the architect in charge before, "a claustrophobic and labyrinthine", is opened in the interior. Among other things, by built-in and in-between floors disappear. On the ground floor there is a bright communal lounge and an open kitchen with a ceiling height of three meters. In contrast, the 12 bedrooms are of different Size, which are designed as "introverted chambers with small Windows". In addition, there are wet cell, a topknot and a garden.

The bright common room is located in an Annex next to the kitchen. (Tages-Anzeiger)

Created: 03.04.2019, 16:56 PM