The Geneva Official Gazette (FAO), watched for you.
Choose your keywords. Every working day we read the Official Gazette and email you as soon as one of them appears in it.
An address to follow building permits on your street, the name of a person or a company, a plot. The service is meant for property managers, architects, lawyers, notaries, fiduciaries, and anyone who wants to know what is published near them or about them.
Try it free for 30 days, unlimited keywords, no card required. After that, from 5 CHF per month. The alert holds two things, the date of the edition and the keywords found; the text of the notice is read at fao.ge.ch, which remains the source.
Why FAO Watch?
In Geneva, every application to build or alter a building, and every bankruptcy, is published in the Official Gazette, the FAO. You have to go and look. FAO Watch reads it for you every day and writes to you when one of your keywords appears in it.
You are a tenant
Your landlord wants to add a floor to the building or renovate the flats. The application appears in the FAO first. By watching the name of your street or of your landlord, you find out the same evening. You then have 30 days to look at the plans and send your remarks to the cantonal authority.
Your keywords: the name of your street, the name of your landlord.
You are buying a house off plan
For months you pay instalments for a house still to be built. A bankruptcy of the developer or of the building contractor is published in the FAO, and that is where to look for it. By watching their names and your plot, you know the same day and can hold back the next payment.
Your keywords: the developer, the building contractor, your plot.
You are a tradesperson
Every house, added floor or renovation in the canton is announced in the FAO months before work starts, with the address, the nature of the works and the name of the architect. By watching your municipalities and your trades, "heat pump", "roofing", "renovation", you call the architect before your competitors do.
Your keywords: your municipalities, "heat pump", "roofing", "renovation".
Pricing
- Free trial 30 days, unlimited keywords, one person, no card required.
- Basic 5 CHF per month or 49 CHF per year, that is 18% less than paying monthly: unlimited keywords, one person.
- Business 19 CHF per month or 190 CHF per year, that is 17% less than paying monthly: unlimited keywords, up to 5 people.
Cancel at any time, with effect at the end of the period already paid for. See pricing.
Has a building permit application been published near you? What you can do, and by when. For anything else, see the frequently asked questions.