The best parcels never reach the market.
They are unlocked at the source.
Les meilleures parcelles ne sont jamais à vendre. Elles se débloquent à la source. Das beste Bauland kommt nie auf den Markt. Es wird an der Quelle akquiriert.
The most profitable deals happen before a property is ever for sale. Plot reads every register in the country — who holds each parcel, what it may carry, what the law removes — and tells you whom to ask, and when.
When the ranked list is already waiting
Communes read, boundary to boundary
Permitted floor area standing unused, nationwide
To answer a neighbour’s permit, from public notice
Which owner.
Why now.
What to pay.
Every lead arrives with all three answered — figures traced to their register, the legal screen cleared, the letter drafted.
What changed last night
Permits filed, titles split, zones redrawn — read against your watch list overnight, each with its clock.
The lead file
One parcel, one screen: the owner and why now, what fits on the land, the legal screen, and the price above which you stop.
The letter
First contact, drafted from the parcel’s own facts. In French or German, in your firm’s register. You edit it. You send it.
The last cut is made against your brief — the communes you build in, the ticket you deploy, the schemes you build, the titles you already hold. Each one arrives finished: every figure traced to its register, the legal screen cleared, the ceiling computed, the letter drafted. You make the call. Everything before it is done. You do not log in to browse. You log in to act.
The reading, staffed
Seven kinds of record, read every morning, in every canton you touch — the whole country read overnight against your own brief. You arrive at 07:00 to the result.
Every parcel measured.
The few owners ranked.
Most land is held, not sold. The list of owners actually in a position to sell is short — and it can be computed.
Measure
Permitted floor area, minus built floor area, on every parcel — computed in each canton’s own instrument. The difference is the opportunity.
- Parcel geometry
- Zone & density rule
- SDP potential vs. built
Remove
What the law removes, before you spend a week on it: RDPPF entries, heritage status, watercourse setbacks, protected canopy, special plans in force.
- RDPPF extract
- Heritage / protection
- Setbacks & canopy
- Special plan in force
Read the title
Holding duration and subdivision lineage. A title split once can be split again — Plot finds the piece that sold, and who bought it. An owner who has sold before knows the price.
- Holding duration
- Subdivision lineage
- The sibling that sold
Pair
A parcel that fails alone can carry a project beside its neighbour — or beside a title you already hold. Plot tests the pairings and raises the ones where two titles are worth more than their sum. In Genève today: 14 assemblages identified.
- Shared boundary
- Access & combined envelope
- Two owners, one scheme
This owner has sold land once already. They accepted a subdivision on their own title. They still hold 3’940 m² at a twelfth of its permitted density. That is not a parcel. That is a conversation with a precedent, and a price to open on.
Out: a ranked list
Ordered by the one you should call first. In Genève today, 1’146 parcels long. Reachability beats size: a 2’000 m² plot whose owner subdivided in 2021 outranks a 12’000 m² plot untouched since 1961.
In the canton’s own instrument
Density is not one number nationwide. Genève writes an IUS. Zürich writes an Ausnützungsziffer. Others write an IBUS, or a building volume. Plot computes each parcel in its own canton’s instrument, names the rule beside the result, and never converts one measure into another silently.
And where the rule has a derogation, the parcel carries both numbers. In Genève a villa parcel builds at 0.25 — or at 0.44 under art. 59 al. 4 LCI, which roughly doubles the buildable and the ceiling with it. That is a dérogation, not an entitlement: the canton sets the ratio, the commune’s préavis decides whether you reach it. Plot prices the base and the uplift side by side, names the restricted perimeters where the derogation is not available at all, and never quietly prices one as the other.
A specimen sheet: surfaces computed from the polygons drawn here. In the product the same arithmetic runs on cantonal geometry, parcel by parcel, commune by commune, in every canton.
The registers are the same for everyone.
Your position is not.
Plot reads the country against what is yours — titles, communes, counterparties. Every signal carries a date. Most carry a deadline. It reads the registers against them and raises the ones that moved, while the window is still open.
A permit is filed beside yours.
It reaches the register within days of being lodged, with its type, its status and a link to the official file. Cantons allow roughly thirty days from public notice to put your position on record, and Plot shows the clock the canton states. A filing you learn about on day 29 is not the same product as one you learn about on day 2.
Permit registers · daily
A permit is granted two streets away.
A dated reason to write to an owner — the street is moving, and their land is worth something other than it was. It goes cold inside a month.
Permit registers · daily
A title is split next door.
A mutation on a neighbouring title. A precedent, and a price to open on.
Registre foncier · mutations
Succession · faillite.
Why a holding pattern breaks is usually printed in the gazette first. Plot reads it every morning. Bankruptcies, debt proceedings and calls to heirs, matched back to the owners of scored parcels.
SHAB / FOSC · names withheld
A name you deal with appears.
The names around your projects are in the registers too — contractors, buyers, partners. A poursuite or a liquidation prints in the gazette before it reaches your site. Plot matches it to your list the morning it appears.
SHAB / FOSC · matched to your names
A plan opens for consultation.
A plan d’affectation opens for consultation. A modification de zone starts its procedure. A commune suspends derogations. These print months before they bind — the longest warning the registers give — and the observation window carries a date of its own.
Plans & aménagement · on publication
A zone is redrawn.
The night a rule moves, every parcel you hold is worth something other than it was the day before. Plot re-reads them all and names the ones that changed, with the new figure beside the old.
Zone plans · on adoption
It starts full
The registers were read before you arrived. Enter your titles and your communes, and everything already open around them surfaces at once — the permit filed last week beside a parcel you hold, its clock already counting. The first morning is the deepest one.
It compounds
The registers are the same for everyone. The list of what matters to you is not. Every parcel, every commune and every name you add stays watched from that day on. After two years a firm is watching a map nobody else has drawn.
Specimen counts. A watch list belongs to the firm that built it and is visible to that firm’s seats. Deadlines are shown as the register states them; the legal date of record is the official publication.
The ceiling,
printed before the first call.
The whole chain, from land area to the number you would bid, on one parcel. Every line is read from a register, or computed from a rule printed beside it.
Specimen record, built on the same arithmetic the product runs. Sale values are commune medians on the developer sale-value method with outliers capped; construction, fee and margin rates are your firm’s and are editable per project. Residual land value is a model output and is labelled as one. The ceiling is the land price above which the scheme falls under your margin — printed before the first call, not discovered after it.
First contact, drafted.
You send it.
Written from that parcel’s facts — its zone, its unused ratio, the sibling plot that sold two streets away. In French or German, in your firm’s register.
Drafted approach
A letter written from that parcel’s own facts: its zone, its unused ratio, the sibling plot that sold two streets away. In French or German, in your firm’s register. You edit it. You send it.
Written from the register file
Pipeline & export
Identified, contacted, offer, signed. Per parcel and per partner, so origination stops living in one person’s inbox. CSV for your models, PDF for the investment committee.
CSV · PDF · per seat
The owner is public record
Art. 970 CC: the name is public, released one parcel at a time, delivered with its register source. Scores attach to parcels, never to persons.
The land is public record. So is the owner.
Who will sell is not.
You will act on this in front of a seller and an investment committee, so every field names where it came from and when it was last read. And the one thing no register holds — who will sell — is exactly what the reading is for.
Parcel geometry, zones, footprints, land cover, canopy — via the cantonal geoportals (SITG in Genève). The base measurement. Every surface and ratio starts here.
ContinuousCantonal permit registers: type, status, and the link to the official file. A new filing appears within days of being lodged.
DailyFederal cadastre of public-law restrictions on landownership. What the law has already decided about this parcel.
Per parcel, on queryPlan procedures as the canton publishes them: plans in consultation, modifications de zone underway, revisions adopted. The longest clock in the registers.
On publicationSwiss Official Gazette of Commerce. Bankruptcies, debt proceedings and calls to heirs, matched to owners of scored parcels.
Daily bulletinOwnership, holding duration, subdivision lineage. Public by law — art. 970 CC.
Read per parcel, on requestDistrict and lake-water network coverage. Connection status and distance to the nearest branch, parcel by parcel.
On network revisionEvery figure traces to a register
Open a parcel, open any number, and you get the register entry it was read from and the arithmetic that produced it. Where a source cannot be shown, the field stays empty.
A model says when it is a model
Residual land value and feasible unit counts are calculated, not measured. They are labelled that way on the screen, with their inputs and rates beside them. The rates are your firm’s, editable per project.
The method is published
Every weight, every threshold, every rule with the legal source it comes from — written out and kept current, and readable by every seat from inside the product. Not a summary of the method: the method.
The owner is public record
Art. 970 of the Civil Code makes the owner’s name public: no interest to show, no permission to ask. What the law forbids is harvesting — the register releases identity one parcel at a time, serial consultation excluded — and Plot works exactly the same way. You request the name on the parcel you intend to act on, and it arrives with its register source. Scores attach to parcels, never to persons.
One country.
One set of books.
The official survey is a single federal standard. The public-law restrictions sit in a single federal cadastre. Insolvency, inheritance and liquidation print in a single federal gazette, every morning. The land registry is one article of one code, kept canton by canton. The registers were never cantonal. Only the reading was — Plot runs the same four passes, the same arithmetic, in Meyrin and in Meilen.
Measured, then ranked
Genève is read down to the owner today. The other 25 cantons are measured and indexed — floor area, zone, gap — and a canton is ranked to the owner the day a member building in it asks. Tell us where you build; the parcels arrive scored on the same method.
Invitation only.
A list everyone has is worth nothing.
In Genève today: 1’146 scored parcels, 143 owners genuinely reachable. Sold to every firm in the market, that list is worth nothing to any of them. Plot takes on a small number of firms per canton — developers, land brokers and funds — and then stops. A seat in Zürich does not dilute a seat in Genève.
Who it is for
Firms that originate their own land, in whichever cantons they build. If you buy finished projects, this is not your tool.
What happens after you write
One reply, from a person, usually within two working days. If there is a fit, a working session where your brief goes in and your position comes out — the leads that match it, the permits already open beside your titles, the clocks already running. You leave with it live.
Confidentiality
Your watch list, your pipeline, your notes and your requested owner extracts are visible to your seats and to nobody else’s. What you track stays yours.