Prime Residential Family-office hub
Rank 07
Geneva and Cologny
The residential half of the Geneva FO stack — 28 sq m per million dollars, forfait fiscal, and Cologny as the Left Bank gate.
Photograph by Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Why it is here
Knight Frank’s dollar tracker ties Geneva with Singapore as the third-most expensive prime city: USD 1mn buys 28 sq m. Savills Dec 2025: $2,650 psf / €24,600/sqm, +4.5% in 2025. PGCI +4.2% YoY to Q1 2026. KF Lake Geneva Insight prices Cologny lake-view apartments at CHF 19,000–21,000/sqm (Q1 2025). UBS Luxury Property Focus 2026 prices Cologny luxury at ~CHF43,000/sqm — a tighter luxury screen, not the same basket. FT/swissinfo: most >CHF10m Geneva sales land in Cologny and Collonge-Bellerive. Lex Koller plus the forfait fiscal is the ownership model: you buy as a resident. Super-prime liquidity is thin (KF: 40 US$10m+ sales in 12m to Q4 2025).
Who it is for
Non-working UHNW relocators who will use Geneva’s forfait and the UN/commodities social graph, and who can live with Lex Koller.
Sources
- Prime Global Cities Index Q1 2026Geneva prime +4.2% YoY and +1.1% QoQ; top-15 globally.
- World Cities Prime Residential Index 2026 forecast vs 2025 growthGeneva Dec 2025 $2,650 psf / €24,600 psm; 2025 +4.5%; 2026 forecast 0.0%.
- Lake Geneva Residential Market InsightCologny Left Bank luxury lake-view apartments CHF 19,000–21,000/sq m as at Q1 2025; Lex Koller noted.
- Geneva vs Zurich: which is the better safe haven?Most >CHF10m sales in Cologny and Collonge-Bellerive; Lex Koller + forfait fiscal.
- Luxury Property Focus 2026Cologny ~CHF43,000/sqm — highest Swiss luxury prices outside the mountain regions.
