Rooming house and co-living management in Switzerland
BoVita takes on the letting, resident support, administration and day-to-day operation of furnished rooming houses, flatshare and co-living properties. You keep control of your property and can see at any time how it is running.
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Each room is let individually, communicated individually, billed individually. Instead of one tenancy per apartment you run many, plus the operation of the shared spaces and daily living together. Classic management models are designed for far fewer parallel tenancies and a lower turnover rate. A room house makes different operational demands.
Frequent tenant changes and ongoing re-letting.
Minimum rental periods and professional, prompt re-letting.
A poor-fit tenant can disrupt the atmosphere of the whole house.
Careful applicant screening for creditworthiness and fit within the flatshare.
Every unplanned change costs vacancy, listings, viewings and your time.
A well-run operation that avoids vacancies and keeps effort away from you.
Our aim: reduce avoidable changeovers and organise re-letting predictably.
Structured screening and re-letting instead of ad-hoc operations.
The split is simple: the property is yours and so are the decisions that belong to you. Everything that comes up day to day sits with us.
You no longer run the building yourself. You can see at any time how it is running.
A rooming house produces more tenancies, payments and enquiries in one year than an apartment building does in five. Run by hand that becomes expensive, which is why classic managers turn such properties down or price them high. We took the recurring steps out of human hands.
The bank statement is imported and each credit is matched to its tenancy. Anything ambiguous goes onto a review list instead of a spreadsheet.
Prospects on WhatsApp and the portals get an answer around the clock, with the real availability and prices from the system. Whoever answers first gets the viewing.
Notice periods, appointments and open decisions run as scheduled reminders, within a sending window and without duplicates. Nobody has to remember them.
Rent and utility invoices are prepared and sent at the planned time, along the same path as a manual send.
Every completed booking is evaluated for what led to the yes. The next enquiry is answered better for it.
We do not remove the work, we take it out of the queue. What remains are the decisions that need a person.
Six areas that come up continuously in a rooming house and belong together.
Listings, enquiries, viewings and continuous re-letting. Every room that frees up enters the same established process.
Documents, creditworthiness and fit for the house. In a shared living situation the selection decides the atmosphere, not just the rent.
Contract preparation, deposits under Swiss tenancy law, handover records, ongoing correspondence within the agreed scope.
First point of contact for residents, house rules, mediation in conflicts. That keeps the day-to-day away from you.
Coordination of cleaning, maintenance and the recurring matters around kitchen, bathroom and shared rooms.
Payment monitoring, a per-property overview and regular reporting, visible in your dashboard at any time.
From running rooming houses to first letting before move-in: our processes come out of real properties and are in daily use. Marketing, applicant screening, resident support and administration follow the same processes at every location that we offer you.
Brugg
We took the building on before occupancy and run the first letting: marketing, applicant screening and contract preparation are under way, operations begin with the first move-in. Sign-off on every tenancy agreement stays with the owner.
Aarau
Two separate shared households in the same building, each with its own occupancy and resident support, running on one shared operating process.
Wohlen
Another Aargau location with a different property structure: a whole building rather than individual floors, run with the same processes for marketing, screening and resident support.
St. Gallen
This location shows the processes do not depend on a region: marketing, screening and support run identically here.
At some locations we run the operation on behalf of the owner. At others we lease the building ourselves and carry the occupancy risk on our own account. For the operation that makes no difference; for our commitment it does.
Not "higher returns", but concretely: what you no longer do yourself, and what you get to see instead.
One contact instead of coordinating applicants, residents, cleaners and individual changeovers yourself.
Every room that frees up runs through the same marketing and screening process, not an ad-hoc search.
Occupancy, rent received and open items are in your dashboard, without having to ask.
Within the agreed scope we are the first address for residents and for whatever comes up in operations.
You hand your property to someone else. Here is what you can rely on.
We operate furnished rooms ourselves and are property owners, and we know the workload from daily business. We do not manage anything we cannot do ourselves.
Buildings let room by room are our core business, not an add-on next to flat management. The processes are built for many parallel tenancies, applications, room changes and shared areas.
You have a named contact who knows your property. No ticket number, no rotating responsibility, no call centre.
We treat every property as if it were our own. Because that is exactly what we do.
Jens Herbst
Founder of BoVita
We work with established Swiss partners so that letting and tenant support run smoothly.
Free and without obligation. You speak directly with the founder, not a call centre.
Full operation is the standard case. The other two exist because not every property and not every owner needs the same thing.
Everything runs, you only see the reporting.
Owners and operators who hand over the complete room operation. The basic idea: you own it, we run it.
Fee: flat rate per room plus a fee per change
A room-based base fee per month, plus a fee per room change for the operational effort and a transparent hourly rate for special effort beyond the standard. We list all three building blocks separately in the offer.
Owners and operators who run the operation themselves but do not want to fill the rooms themselves.
Fee: one-off per successful letting
A one-off fee per successful letting, separate from any ongoing fee. Filling rooms is its own work and is paid for separately. We state the rate for your property in the offer.
Real estate companies, developers and operators with several locations or an entire co-living portfolio.
Fee: portfolio terms per room
For several buildings or locations we set up a consolidated mandate and fee structure. One shared mandate instead of many individual contracts. The calculation per property stays transparently shown.
We do not quote shop-window prices that would not hold for your property anyway. Instead you see the calculation before we speak for the first time.
Your fee comes from three building blocks: a room-based base fee, a fee per room change and an hourly rate for special effort. The rate moves with the number of rooms, how often they change hands and how closely we support residents.
Book a short first call. Afterwards you receive a concrete, non-binding offer with a fixed rate for your property, in writing.
Several rooming houses or locations? We run them under one mandate, with shared reporting and one contact person.
For selected properties we also assess a long-term head lease. Whether that makes sense we judge individually, based on location, demand, property structure and economics.
You hand over the work, not the control. The owner portal shows you at any time how your property is occupied, what is being let and what needs a decision.
What this means for you as an owner: Every new application, enquiry and the waiting list on one screen. You decide with a single click.
Managing yourself and only looking for the software?
The BoVita platform (in German)Prospects ask in the evening, at weekends and from other time zones. Whoever does not answer then loses the viewing to whoever was faster. On the portals and via WhatsApp we answer enquiries around the clock automatically, with the real data from the system, and a person takes over the moment one is needed.
Mia
Digital colleague, first point of contact for prospects and residents
Around the clock, at weekends and overnight. Whoever answers first gets the viewing.
She gathers what the decision needs and hands over to a person with a summary.
Not because the technology could not, but because someone has to stand behind it.
If Mia cannot confirm that a figure or a date is current, she does not quote it and hands over to a person. A follow-up question beats an answer that no longer holds tomorrow.
A clear path from the first talk to ongoing operation. You always know where things stand.
We discuss your property, your goals and the starting position, and look at how it runs today.
You receive a concept tailored to your property and a concrete offer with a clear service and fee structure.
We take over the management, set up the digital processes and ensure a clean transition without interruption.
We let the rooms, look after the tenancies and run the operation. Occupancy and key figures are in your dashboard at any time, and we report regularly on top of that.
Step one is a short, no-obligation talk.
Looking for management of conventional apartments or multi-family buildings?
Property management (in German)What owners most often want to know before handing over.
Jens Herbst, founder of BoVita, answers you personally, within 48 hours on working days.
We come from the most demanding form of letting, the individually rented room, and we work digitally and lean. For you that means one fixed contact, fast availability, transparent accounting and an owner dashboard with an always current view of your property.
Yes, but that is a separate offering with its own fee logic and it has its own page: bovita.ch/partner/liegenschaftsverwaltung (in German). This page covers only buildings let room by room, shared flats and co-living, because operations there work fundamentally differently.
We work with a transparent, comprehensible model instead of shop-window prices: a room-based base fee, a fee per room changeover and an hourly rate for special work beyond the standard. We list all three components separately in the offer. We name your fixed rate after a short initial call, in writing and without obligation.
Straightforward. We take over files and tenancies, set up the digital processes and ensure a clean transition without interruption for you and your tenants. We keep the effort on your side minimal.
Every applicant is screened for creditworthiness, references and fit. In a shared household that decides the atmosphere of the whole building. But the decision is yours: for every screened application you see a dossier with our assessment and sign off on each tenancy agreement individually. Your sign-off is recorded with its wording, timestamp and device, so it stays traceable on what basis the contract came about.
Yes. Under a management mandate you remain the landlord, the tenancy agreements run in your name and for your account. We prepare and coordinate them; signing off each individual contract is yours. That is not just a promise, it is built into the system: for every application you see the screened dossier and release it individually, and your release is recorded with its wording, timestamp and device.
Whether a mandate works for both sides depends less on the number of rooms than on the structure of the property, its location and the scope of services you want. We assess that individually before anyone signs anything. Our processes are built for whole rooming houses and larger room portfolios.
Every room that frees up runs through the same process, from the listing through enquiries and viewings to screening and the contract. We work with minimum rental periods and start re-letting as soon as notice is given, not when the tenant moves out. We deliberately give no occupancy guarantee, which would be unrealistic for any serious provider.
Yes, and that is often the better moment. We advise on room layout, furnishing and rent levels before the building work is done, and we start marketing and pre-registrations while the work is still running. A property that only reaches the market after completion loses months.
Yes. For several buildings or locations we set up a consolidated mandate and fee structure: the same processes at every site, one contact and joint reporting across the whole portfolio. We take over site by site so that no running operation is interrupted.
For selected properties we assess that as an alternative: BoVita leases the property long term and sublets on its own account, at a fixed rent agreed before you sign. You hand over the vacancy risk and have a single contractual partner. Whether a property is suitable we judge individually, based on location, demand, property structure and economics.
Our focus is the canton of Aargau and the wider surroundings, and we run one property in eastern Switzerland as well. Whether we can take on a property outside our existing locations depends on how operations can be organised on site. Ask us, we will say honestly if it does not fit.
