When I was looking through flats in Building A, I was scanning over all the floor plans together and several flats with unusually large balconies caught my eye.
It seemed that on just one side of the building complex, the ground floor was wider and huge terrace balconies were built on top of the extended ground floor.
The second floor flats on this side of the building have huge 92sq m (990sq ft) terraces, but if you went one floor higher to the 3rd through fifth floors, you would lose the large balcony and pay 20,000CHF more per level rise.
The flats on that side of the building still had pretty big 29sq m (315sq ft). But who in their right mind would pay thousands more to have so much less space?
Well… we checked out that sunshine model at the showroom and apparently the higher up you are, the more sunshine you enjoy throughout the day.
Dun dun dun.
That sunshine factor sure does change the price! We didn’t even want to look at the sunniest side of the building, which had flats 200-300k more expensive than their counterparts on the darker sides of the complex.
But Kay did convince me that we should buy the sunnier floor plan a few flats down from my original pick. It was indeed 20k more, but it would have sun in the evening an hour or more longer and we thought that was important since we are often only at home after work during the week. Kay thought paying a bit more would be worth it especially in the wintertime when daylight is sparse.
The Swiss sure are crazy about sun, but I also figured if you would have such a large balcony with 63sq m uncovered, surely you will enjoy more sun than people with smaller, covered balconies above? And they didn’t exist on any other floor or side of the complex, so we were sold!
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