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Finding Accommodation, Flatsharing, Hostels in Geneva

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For your offers and searches for accommodations, but also for exchange of conversation and other ads, EasyExpat provides a classified ad section.

13/01/2010

Some permits (B and C) imply that you are resident in Switzerland, the "cross-border" G permit means that you must live in France and work in Switzerland as a "frontalier". Depending on your category, you may look for an accommodation either in the canton of Geneva, either in France in the areas of Ain and Haute-Savoie (Gex, St Julien en Genevois, Annemasse...).

Members of the Union Suisse des Professionnels de l'Immobilier de Genève (USPI) manage about 70% of the letting accommodation in Geneva (residential and commercial premises). Set up in 1879, with the name of Société des Régisseurs, USPI is a professional estate association that groups today about forty active members in property management, broker and surveyor business.

The lodging service of the Centre d'Accueil Genève Internationale (CAGI) gives a list of vacancies of accommodations (bourse du logement du CAGI) for international organisations, NGO, Consulates, International Sport Federations. USPI-Geneva section is one of the main member of CAGI and get regular updates and offers through the network.

However searching may be difficult as the market in properties is currently in crisis in Geneva with very few vacancies. As demand exceeds offer, it is useless to post accommodation search ads, chances are low that someone will answer.

FLATSHARING : A NEW WAY OF LIFE

Instead of living in a pokey attic room with huge rent, why not try shared accommodation? Frequently associated with students, sharing is spreading nowadays towards older established workers and covers people from 18 to 49 years old. Without falling into a community style of life such as in the 70's, you can choose to share an accommodation in Geneva for a bigger space, less expense.

Flatsharing is a way to meet more and more followers who choose to break a lonely life, save money or just find an affordable acommodation in a difficult market. This way of life has numerous advantages in term of money, practicality or social life. EASYEXPAT in partnership with EASYROOMMATE number one for flatsharing, offers this service to its users to present all the chances to find the ideal flatmate or to join an existing household.

Discover all EasyRoommate offers in Switzerland, search for a flatshare, advertise a room in Geneva: go through the ads and enter your profile.

If you've got a room to rent in Geneva, you can put a free ad for house/flatsharing.

If you look for a room or a flatshare in Switzerland, it's free to search into the database with thousands of offers.

Some tips to finding accommodation...

In the ad section published by free magasines:

Genève Home Informations (GHI) ( http://www.ghi.ch),
022 (twice a month, on Monday)
Tout l'immobilier ( http://www.toutimmo.ch), every week, on Monday, with more than 200 000 prints.

Newspapers:

Each Monday, the additional Leman Express of 24 heures and of La Tribune de Genève publishes several ad pages throughout the French-speaking areas of Switzeland.
On Tuesday, La Tribune de Genève publishes its own accommodation section.
Each Wednesday: the additional accommodation print of the Temps.

On the Internet :

http://www.geneveimmobilier.ch (about twenty estate agencies, 80% of the market),
http://www.swissimo.ch,
http://www.uspi-geneve.ch (USPI) : you can access the websites of the members. Better than subscribing on the agency website, go and meet them directly as a face to face contact is always better.

For social estates : Office cantonal du logement

For youths and interns, you can contact the Centre d'Accueil - Genève Internationale.

Youth Hostels, cheap prices, temporary solutions

Youth Hostels:
- http://www.youthhostel.ch
- http://www.swissbackpackers.ch

Cheap hotels (50 CHF per personne):
http://www.myswitzerland.com/fr/reservation_preiswert.cfm

Bed and Breakfast Switzerland (from 25 CHF a night with breakfast):
http://www.bnb.ch

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