Corporate Housing

Professional Temporary Housing Across Switzerland's Major Cities

Corporate Housing provides fully furnished serviced apartments in Switzerland's three largest cities: Lausanne, Geneva, and Zurich. The company, based in Crissier (VD) and reachable through DR-Immobilier, explicitly targets business travellers, expatriates and people relocating who need flexible accommodation while finding permanent housing. It positions itself as a middle ground between traditional hotel rooms and long-term apartment rentals, combining furnishings and amenities with month-to-month or shorter lease terms. The brand appeals to professionals on international relocations, company-sponsored moves, and anyone who needs immediate, move-in-ready housing without the two to three week delays of standard Swiss apartment hunting and the landlord vetting that is standard across Switzerland.

What Relocating Professionals Gain

For someone arriving to start a job or relocate a household, Corporate Housing eliminates the friction of signing a six-month lease from abroad before you land. You move into a fully furnished home immediately, with no bare walls or IKEA assembly. Utilities, high-speed WiFi and cable television are included in the monthly rent, so you pay one bill rather than negotiating water, power and internet contracts while still learning the language. This eliminates a major administrative burden: opening a Swiss bank account to pay multiple utilities, getting a local address for the bills to arrive at, and comparing providers you cannot evaluate in a foreign language.

The apartments are cleaned regularly and come with housekeeping services. A concierge team handles questions and requests at all hours. If your job transfer lasts a few months or you need space while waiting for your permanent flat to become available, you book week to week or month to month without a fixed-term contract. The company explicitly names "expatriates and relocating families" as its primary customer base, which means the business model assumes you will stay for a defined period and then leave, unlike a traditional landlord who wants a three-year tenant. That flexibility is worth real money to someone whose arrival date is certain but whose permanent housing timeline is not.

How Corporate Housing Structures the Offering

The apartments are high-quality, fully equipped and furnished with modern furnishings and linens. Each includes spacious living areas and equipped kitchens, so you can eat at home rather than burning money in restaurants during your first expensive weeks in a new city. Hotel-style amenities include swimming pools, fitness centres, coworking spaces and concierge services, though the website does not specify which cities include which amenities. The site describes stays ranging from "a few days to several months" and emphasises flexibility as a selling point compared to traditional long-term rentals, where breaking a contract costs money or legal action.

All-inclusive pricing covers utilities, high-speed WiFi, cable TV and regular housekeeping, presenting the total monthly cost upfront with no hidden bills. This is genuinely rare: most landlords in Switzerland charge utilities separately, and you spend weeks setting them up after move-in. Corporate Housing is saying you pay one amount and everything is handled. The company also works with medical visitors and extended-stay tourists, positioning itself beyond just corporate relocations, which suggests pricing that can flex to serve different customer segments (a family visiting a patient in hospital for two weeks is a different budget than a three-month job assignment).

Corporate Housing's address is Chemin de Praz 6 in Crissier (VD), and the company can be reached by phone at 0041/78.632.30.50 or through the email info@dr-immobilier.ch. The company operates under the brand name Corporate Housing and handles all three Swiss locations, Lausanne, Geneva, and Zurich, through a single contact point. The positioning emphasises that relocating professionals and businesses are the core market, with the brand promising that housing become solved and invisible, freeing your focus for the actual job transfer.

A parallel focus on corporate clients suggests volume discounts, possibly dedicated account management, and an understanding of the employer-sponsored relocation process. The marketing emphasises convenience and time-savings for people whose primary energy needs to go to a new job, not to apartment hunting and utility setup. A hiring manager relocating your family wants housing to be solved and invisible; Corporate Housing is built to be exactly that.

What the Site Leaves Unanswered

The site publishes no actual prices or pricing bands, only a contact form. You cannot compare corporate housing to traditional rentals without calling. It does not state what the exact minimum stay is (does "a few days" really include weekend bookings, or does it mean one week?). This matters: a weekend city break has different terms than a two-month relocation. It does not explain how damage deposits work, what the damage policy is, whether pets are allowed, or what you pay upfront versus monthly. If you have a dog and your company is relocating your family, you cannot confirm before contacting them whether your pet is welcome.

It does not specify which amenities are in all properties and which vary by location; a swimming pool is a major draw and the site does not name which city has one. Does Lausanne have a fitness centre and Geneva does not? The website does not say, forcing you to ask the same questions about each location. It does not clarify what "concierge assistance" or "housekeeping" actually includes or how often cleaning happens (daily, weekly, on-demand?). It does not explain whether furnished utilities include internet speed sufficient for remote work or just basic household WiFi; if you are working from the apartment during your first weeks, that is a material question.

Most crucially for a relocation decision, it does not say whether you can see an apartment before committing or whether you have a trial period to confirm the location and size suit you. An apartment that looks good in photos may feel cramped in person, and you cannot know if the neighbourhood is quiet or loud without spending a night there. Corporate Housing does not address any of these after-booking disappointments.

Who Should Consider This

Corporate Housing suits someone with a confirmed job start date in one of those three cities who needs accommodation immediately and has a company covering the cost (it is, after all, called "Corporate Housing"). It works for executives and professionals on multi-month assignments rather than long-term residents. The all-inclusive pricing and elimination of utility contracts is a real convenience for someone arriving without a local bank account or Swiss address yet. If you are house-hunting in parallel and need a safe home base for a few months while you search, this avoids the landlord who insists on a reference or a guarantor you do not have.

The company's strength is removing friction from a high-touch relocation. You book, you arrive, you have a home with utilities already working and a team to call if anything breaks. That appeal is strongest for companies relocating their executives; the all-inclusive cost is easier to budget for HR than dealing with three separate utility providers and damage deposit disputes. It does not suit someone with a tight personal budget who needs to negotiate and hunt for the cheapest flat; the phrasing and the all-in pricing suggest this is above-average accommodation at a professional relocation budget.

It will not work if you need a specific location within a city (the site does not name properties or addresses) or if you must see a place before signing (the contact form is the only door in). Finally, it does not work if you need short-term housing for just a week or two; the all-inclusive model and the focus on "expatriates and relocating families" suggests Corporate Housing expects longer occupancy and has priced accordingly. A weekend visitor will overpay; this is not for tourists or short business trips.