Our expertise in lease takeovers, relocation and tenant searches in Geneva

Origins and history

Home Location SA is a Geneva-based property agency founded in 2019, specialising in rentals, relocation services, property management and lease transfers. To meet the growing demand in the Geneva market, we also developed leasetakeover.ch, Switzerland's first platform entirely dedicated to lease transfers.

Since our founding, we have assisted more than 500 tenants, property owners and expatriates with their property needs, whether it involves finding a home, searching for a tenant, or ending a lease before its expiry date.

Thanks to our in-depth knowledge of the Geneva property market, tenancy law and the industry's key stakeholders — managing agents, agencies and landlords — we are able to provide fast, efficient and personalised support. Whether you turn to Home Location for your property needs or to leasetakeover.ch for a lease transfer, you benefit from the expertise of one dedicated team of professionals.

That team brings more than ten years of experience of the Geneva property market, accumulated before the agency itself was founded. It is the reason we can read a file the way a managing agent reads it, and tell you on day one what is likely to hold and what is not.

Our areas of expertise

• Lease takeovers in Geneva and across the canton. We prepare the file, publish the listing, screen the candidates and present them to the managing agent, right through to the inventory of fixtures and the release of your lease.
• Short- and long-term subletting. For tenants who are leaving for a while and intend to come back, and who therefore keep the lease and the responsibility that goes with it.
• Tenant searches for private landlords. Application review, income evidence, debt enforcement register extract and residence permit are checked before a candidate is put in front of you.
• Support for international civil servants, NGO staff and expatriates.People who arrive, are reassigned or leave at short notice, and who deal with a Swiss tenancy procedure for the first time.
• Entry and exit inventories of fixtures. The stage that decides how the handover ends, and one that is far easier with someone in the room who has done it before.
• Advice on Geneva tenancy law. WhatArticle 264 of the Swiss Code of Obligationsactually allows, what a landlord may reasonably refuse, and what your notice obligations are.

Our strengths

• Over 500 lease takeovers successfully accompanied
• No fee for the outgoing tenant when we find the successor, in exchange for two weeks of exclusivity
• A local, experienced and bilingual team, working in English and in French
• Personalised and swift handling: we look at your file within 24 hours
• Full administrative support until the lease is released
• A thank-you bonus when a file entrusted to us leads to an effective takeover, under clear and transparent conditions

If your move-out date is already fixed, the fastest way to reach us is thelease takeover page: the form there collects everything we need to assess your case before we call you back.