Wetag Consulting Immobiliare is a boutique real estate brokerage in Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland with branch offices in Lugano and Ascona. The company features a broad selection of well selected properties focusing on the luxury segment of the real estate market such as luxury villas, apartments, penthouses and estates. This blog covers news, ideas, and information pertaining to this real estate marketplace and local lifestyle.

Toskana von ihrer schönsten Seite

Posted Mon May 25 17:09:00 UTC 2009

Das verlängerte Wochenende über Christie Himmelfahrt oder „Uffaart“ auf Schweizer Deutsch fuhren wir in die Toskana, um ein Projekt zu besichtigen. Die Toskana – weltweit berühmt für ihre hüglige Landschaft mit Zypressen, Pinien, Olivenbäumen und Weinreben – ist eine Region in Italien und grenzt im Norden an Ligurien and die Emilia-Romagna, im Osten an Marken und Umbrien sowie im Süden an Latium. Unser Ziel war die Chianti-Region zwischen Florenz und Siena, wo wir in einem sehr schönen Casale (ital. ursprünglich Bezeichnung für ein Haus oder eine Häusergruppe auf dem Land) nahe Mensano residierten. Mit einem wunderschönen Blick über die umliegende Landschaft mit dem Örtchen Casole d’Elsa am Horizont, wohnten wir in mitten der herrlichen Landschaft in unbeschreiblicher Ruhe, nur unterbrochen von dem zirpen der Grillen und verschiedenem Vogelzwitschern. Das Casale ist ein wunderschön umgebautes, ehemaliges Bauernhaus, welches den ursprünglichen Charme nicht verloren hat, trotz so moderner Einbauten wie einer Fussbodenheizung. Der Eigentümer rekonstruierte es unter enormen Auflagen und unter Berücksichtigung der Geschichte des Gebäudes und der Gegend sowie unter Verwendung originaler Baumaterialien. Bei dieser Qualität des Umbaus und der Hingebung bei Details und Erhaltung der einzigartigen Besonderheiten, welche das Anwesen ausmacht, kann man gut erahnen wie die restlichen 5 Casali, welche noch als Ruinen im Gelände stehen, einmal aussehen werden.

Einen weiteren Vorgeschmack auf den Zustand nach deren Renovierung bekamen wir bei der Besichtigung bereits realisierter Objekte, die zu dem angrenzenden Development Castello di Casole gehören, einem 5 Sterne Luxushotel mit allen Annehmlichkeiten sowie einzelnen Casali, welche im Gesamten oder in Teilen erworben werden können. Der Mix aus traditioneller Architektur und modernen Inneneinrichtungselementen hatte mich am meisten begeistert. Grossartige Badezimmer und die Verwendung typischer sowie feinster Materialien machten diese Begeisterung aus.

Ebenfalls zu Beifallsstürmen hinreissen liess mich das sensationelle Essen, welches wir in Restaurants oder im Casale, wo wir wohnten, kredenzt bekamen. Ich hatte schon viel Gutes über die Qualität der Speisen gehört, aber was wir dann letztendlich serviert bekamen und gegessen haben übertraf dies um einiges. Schmackhafte Vorspeisen und super auf den Punkt gegarte Braten waren ein Schmaus für die Gaumen. Nicht zu vergessen die sehr schmackhaften Weine aus der Region, die weit weg von billigem Chianti waren.

Alles in allem war dies ein angenehmes „Arbeits“-Wochenende mit fantastischem Essen in einer sehr angenehmen Runde. Ich freue mich schon jetzt auf den nächsten Trip in die Toskana – wann immer das auch sein wird.

Posted By: Peter Rabitz

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To make the ship seaworthy - some preliminaries for a successful luxury real estate company

Posted Fri Apr 24 18:40:00 UTC 2009

Our world at Wetag orbits around luxury real estate. No, nothing about bodyguards stars and mean guys and, guess what, neither about happy people enjoying their riches. Of course they do exist, but what we normally meet are hardworking people who have a 30h days and nearly no time whatsoever for leisure and pastimes as buying or selling property. So a helping hand is very welcome indeed.

Since the year 2000 we served clients from at least 61 nations (I stopped counting at 61 because my phone kept ringing) which means enormously different cultures, languages, expectations or ways to express their desires. amongst them was a 16years old computer-whiz kid-already-turned-millionaire, as well as a nearly 90years old tycoon with a swarm of private jets (one for every day of the week I guessed, and a multiple choice for the weekend, but he said no, this is my preparation for the future since wars need airlift capacity, but this is another story..).

Our clients from all these countries have something in common: they are really happy if we manage to present them their dream home within 10 minutes. A Spanish nobleman asked for „a mansion with at least 100 rooms“. Other than to fulfill simple and perusable needs our clients seem to share an even higher degree of happiness if we coordinate within the same time frame their legal situation, their permits, their financing, tax-ideas, children’s boarding schools, new employees, horse stables, and indicating where to shop for “zimmerli” underwear after 7o clock at evening. The country gentleman from Hawaii who intended to buy a merlot production had some distinct ideas of his own, and the charming Russian three-generation-family who lacked to speak any western European language had some of their own too.

With our growing experience, my view on how to do such a business successfully changed a lot. It needed time to realize the important points for success, and it needed time too to realize the enormous differences there are on the market between the actors offering real estate services. In Switzerland, low legal hurdles offer a quick and easy entering for whoever feels attracted to „do-a-quick buck“, even more so since there is no large need for capital. Think of a leased Mercedes, sunglasses and two cellular phones. Result is that a whole array of micro and most-micro companies offers their services during the good-weather season. Anyway clients come just once - nobody buys or sells real estate as grocery, so transparency in European real estate markets is rather low. We always wondered how companies with a real low level of service kept going and going and going. While moving our company up the markets, we saw that these observations are not valid for the high-end market. As outlined above, complexity is high and there are further hurdles that keep the market far less crowded. It is small, income will be very irregular and risky, and while services have to be perfect the amount of work may vary a lot between downtime and high time.

For to stay and remain in the high-end-market, we see as decisive:

  • To have a certain minimum size of the company with a latent overcapacity (to give a impeccable service under all circumstances)
  • To have a very high competence of all of the collaborators
  • To start with and to keep a strong capital base, for maintaining liquidity
  • To be independent from financial owners or franchisers, whose interests are different from long-term high-quality service?

Such preliminaries will make the ship seaworthy. A good captain will do for a good sail then.

Posted By: Ueli F. Schnorf

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A visit at the pope’s "court yard"

Posted Thu Oct 23 21:29:00 UTC 2008

Towards the end of the summer season, a part of the crew of Wetag Consulting enjoyed a great weekend in Rome, Italy. Sarah Valli, Ueli Schnorf and Peter Rabitz were attendees of the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® International Real Estate Symposium in Rome at the Rome Cavalieri, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

The conference was great; we explored global real estate trends and discussed commonalities and differences in markets worldwide. We also enjoyed great dining during the conference. We enjoyed one dinner in a restaurant at the square in front of the Pantheon and another dinner at the Cavalieri itself. It’s been a great time to meet not only like minded business partners in the field of luxury real estate, but also friends from all over the world. Thanks to a special presentation made by Maurizio Pezzetta, we were also able to visit one of Rome’s most sought-after apartments that was just being listed. The recently renovated apartment has been restored to its original layout that dated back to the 16th century, but with all modern updates of today’s times. The apartment is a great example of preserving traditional architecture and combining it with present demands.

Posted By: Peter Rabitz

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