Federal Act
on the Acquisition of Immovable Property
in Switzerland by Foreign Non-Residents
(ANRA)

The fol­low­ing per­sons do not re­quire au­thor­isa­tion:

a.

stat­utory heirs un­der the Swiss law of suc­ces­sion;

b.²²

the trans­fer­or's as­cend­ants or des­cend­ants in dir­ect line and his or her spouse or re­gistered part­ner;

c.²³

an ac­quirer who is already a co-own­er or joint own­er of the prop­erty;

d.

con­domin­i­um own­ers in re­la­tion to the ex­change of their storeys in the same prop­erty;

e.

an ac­quirer who re­ceives the prop­erty as com­pens­a­tion in a case of ex­pro­pri­ation or land con­sol­id­a­tion un­der fed­er­al or can­ton­al law;

f.

an ac­quirer who re­ceives a prop­erty as a re­place­ment for an­oth­er that he or she has trans­ferred to a pub­lic cor­por­a­tion or in­sti­tu­tion;

g.

an ac­quirer who re­ceives a small area due to a bound­ary cor­rec­tion or as a res­ult of an in­crease in his or her share of con­domin­i­um;

h.²⁴

an ac­quirer whose ac­quis­i­tion is in the Con­fed­er­a­tion's na­tion­al polit­ic­al in­terest; the area may not be lar­ger than re­quired for the pur­pose of the prop­erty;

i.²⁵

nat­ur­al per­sons who ac­quire a home as a res­ult of the li­quid­a­tion of a leg­al en­tity es­tab­lished be­fore 1 Feb­ru­ary 1974 whose ac­tu­al ob­ject is the ac­quis­i­tion of im­mov­able prop­erty, provided they have ac­quired shares in the leg­al en­tity of equi­val­ent value to the prop­erty in ac­cord­ance with the reg­u­la­tions ap­plic­able at the time;

j.²⁶

the fol­low­ing per­sons, provided they are cross-bor­der com­muters and ac­quire a second home in the re­gion of their place of work:

1.

cit­izens of mem­ber states of the European Uni­on or the European Free Trade As­so­ci­ation,

2.

cit­izens of the United King­dom of Great Bri­tain and North­ern Ire­land, who are covered by Art­icle 22 num­ber 3 of the Agree­ment of 25 Feb­ru­ary 2019²⁷ between the Swiss Con­fed­er­a­tion and the United King­dom of Great Bri­tain and North­ern Ire­land on Cit­izens' Rights fol­low­ing the With­draw­al of the United King­dom from the European Uni­on and the Free Move­ment of Per­sons Agree­ment.