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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines the an­nu­al can­ton­al au­thor­isa­tion quotas for the ac­quis­i­tion of hol­i­day homes and ac­com­mod­a­tion units in apar­tho­tels based on a max­im­um num­ber for the whole of Switzer­land; in do­ing so it shall take ac­count of the coun­try's polit­ic­al and eco­nom­ic in­terests.

² The max­im­um num­ber un­der para­graph 1 may not ex­ceed 1500 quota units.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall cal­cu­late the can­ton­al quotas based on the im­port­ance of tour­ism to the can­tons, the tour­ist de­vel­op­ment plans and the per­cent­age of im­mov­able prop­erty in for­eign own­er­ship on their ter­rit­ory.

⁴ The can­tons reg­u­late the al­loc­a­tion of au­thor­isa­tions from their quota.