The rental dossier property managers take seriously.
Your complete Swiss rental application, captured properly once — free, in German and English. Your documents stay on your device.
No sign-up · Your dossier stays in your browser · Swiss data protection (DSG)
Wohnera has just launched: the complete dossier builder — with document checklist and PDF export — is free to use.
What a Swiss rental dossier needs
Wherever you apply, property managers expect nearly the same set of documents.
Always included
- Identity: your residence permit — it counts as ID in Switzerland. Swiss citizens: ID or passport.
- Your last three payslips — or, if you are self-employed, your most recent final tax assessment or other tax paperwork. Landlords apply the one-third rule: the rent should not exceed a third of the household's gross income.
- A debt-register extract (Betreibungsauszug), no older than about three months — available online or from your municipality's debt-collection office for a small fee.
Often appreciated
- Your employment contract
- A reference from a previous landlord
- Proof of personal liability insurance (Privathaftpflicht)
Order the Betreibungsauszug early: delivery can take a few days, and many property managers treat an extract older than three months as stale. The builder's checklist tracks the issue date for you and warns before it expires.
How it works
Capture once
Everything a Swiss application asks for — for every person signing the lease. The assistant walks you through it, in German or English.
Forget nothing
The checklist shows which documents are missing and which expire — like the debt-register extract, considered stale after about three months.
Hand in complete
The result is a complete dossier as one PDF — structured the way property managers expect, without watermarks, usable anywhere.
Why Wohnera
Everything stays with you
No account, no upload: your details and documents stay in your browser. We never see them — and what we never hold, nobody can take from us.
On your side
Wohnera is built for applicants, not for portals. We do not score you: your dossier shows your documents — not a rating or a class that a property manager gets to see. Free and complete — quality is never locked behind a paywall.
Made for Switzerland
Debt-register extract, joint liability, permit categories: Wohnera knows the Swiss application — and asks for nothing that does not belong in the dossier.
Not flat-hunting right now?
Wohnera keeps growing: autofill from your ID, a model cover letter, an assessment of your dossier that only you see. One email when something new is ready, and never more often.
For property managers
Complete, uniformly structured dossiers mean fewer follow-ups and faster triage. We are currently seeking conversations with Zurich property managers — your perspective is welcome.
Write to us · contact@wohnera.chThis is what a Wohnera dossier looks like — open the sample (PDF)
Who is behind this
Wohnera is built by Catalin Mares in the Zurich area — an expat who went through the Swiss housing search himself: in a foreign language, under time pressure, against unwritten rules. Wohnera is the tool he was missing back then.