BG Süd-Ost: apartments and interest list

Yes. You register for the interest list by post using the registration form. You only become a member with the tenancy agreement.

Yes, with the tenancy agreement: cooperative shares instead of a rent deposit. The questions and answers on the Tulpenweg new build state CHF 3’000 to 9’000 depending on the number of rooms.

We did not find a rule for moving in. An apartment counts as under-occupied if it has over two rooms more than residents; in Schauenberg: over one.

We did not find fixed limits. According to the Vermietungsreglement (letting regulations) of 2006, the ratio between income and rent is taken into account in every case.

Yes, an interest list. The registration is valid for one year and can be extended by one year at a time. No waiting list is kept for the Tulpenweg new build.

To apply for an apartment, you register with a form, which puts you on the interest list. You print the form and send it in by post.

The registration is valid for one year. After that you can renew it for another year with the extension form on the website.

On the waiting time, BG Süd-Ost writes: “The waiting time for an apartment offer can be several months to years.”

The Vermietungsreglement (letting regulations) of 2006, which BG Süd-Ost still publishes on its website, sets an order: first internal relocations, then employees and board members, then people who grew up in BG Süd-Ost, after that families with children and single parents, couples and finally single people.

The Vermietungsreglement of 2006 does not contain a fixed income limit. In every case, however, the number of people, the ratio between income and rent, the references, participation in the cooperative and involvement in the neighbourhood are taken into account.

With the tenancy agreement you buy shares in the cooperative. In return, according to the website, the rent deposit that is otherwise usual does not apply.

The questions and answers on the Tulpenweg new build state the share capital by apartment size: from CHF 3’000 for 1.5 to 2.5 rooms to CHF 9’000 for 6 to 6.5 rooms. The page does not say whether these amounts apply in all estates.

If the number of rooms exceeds the number of residents by more than two, this counts as severe under-occupancy and must be reported to the administration.

A stricter rule has applied in the Schauenberg estate since 2025: an apartment is already under-occupied if it has more than one room more than residents.

Dogs are not allowed in BG Süd-Ost’s apartments. Other pets need a permit.

On its website, BG Süd-Ost writes that interested people are put on an interest list. On 5 October 2026 there were no individual listings on the «Freie Wohnungen» (available apartments) page. We did not find any indication that apartments are additionally advertised elsewhere.

Not yet. BG Süd-Ost writes that letting starts about a year before move-in; in the questions and answers on the project it gives early 2028 for the start of online letting and 2029 for move-in. According to these questions and answers, no waiting lists are kept for Tulpenweg; the cooperative provides information on its website and through a newsletter.

The 2025 annual report states 80 terminations or re-lettings of residential and commercial units, 39 of them internal apartment moves. At the end of 2025 the stock stood at 736 apartments.

Dogs are not. According to the Vermietungsreglement, cats are only allowed if they stay in the apartment permanently; the house rules require written permission for house cats and other animals.

According to the Statuten (articles of association), anyone who takes on ten cooperative shares of CHF 100 each can become a member; the board decides on admission. However, BG Süd-Ost also writes that joining as a rule requires renting premises of the cooperative. Neither source says that membership without an apartment helps with allocation.