Hi !
I’ve been reading a lot in this forum, and the information i read have been really helpful. Hence, I’d like to ask your opinion regarding our dilemma.
Here is our situation. Non-eu & EU. Married. Both of us have been here in Switzerland for some time and are on B permit. I will aim to get the C and eventually the Swiss citizenship (~2.5 years time).
We have quite some liquidity that is enough to buy an apartment. It has always been our goal to invest in property. And given the stable economy and leveraged capital gains in real estate in Switzerland, we were thinking to buy here. However, given all these, we do have a prospect to leave Switzerland eventually and move to my partner’s home country (Slovakia). And if we do have to leave the country (after becoming Swiss, in about 5 to 10 years maybe), we’d like to rent the property.
Given that we are on a B permit now, are we allowed to buy a property to live while we are here, and then eventually be able to rent it? I am asking because we wouldn’t want to sell the property in that short time span. Note that by the time we leave, if all goes well, I should have the Swiss citizenship already. Will this be sufficient Or does the permit matter at the time of buying?
We have the capacity not to withdraw/pledge the second pillar, so restrictions caused by that should be avoided. However, ideally we’d like to pledge it so we can use the remaining cash as an additional liquidity for other investment streams.