Uster AG Planer Architekten Immobilientreuhänder (Wädenswil)

Uster AG has been operating successfully for 55 years and employs around 20 specialists from a wide range of disciplines relating to construction and real estate.

Our field of activity ranges from environmental and spatial planning, architecture and general contracting to real estate fiduciary services and management to the overall marketing of properties. Our competences and services around real estate:

Environmental & Spatial Planning

Environmental and spatial planning has a targeted effect on the spatial development of society, the economy and the natural, built and social environment. The complex planning work requires a great deal of interdisciplinary expertise and is becoming an indispensable steering element for the federal government, cantons and municipalities as settlement density increases. It is always crucial that the planning guidelines provide sufficient scope for concrete project planning.

Competencies/Services:

• Use-oriented construction
• Traffic and settlement planning
• Economy and ecology

**Project development

Project development includes all investigations, business decisions, planning and other measures preparatory to construction that are necessary or expedient in order to build over or otherwise use one or more plots of land. This also includes securing construction and other uses in the commercial sector. In residential construction, project development is often limited to the search for suitable plots of land and their planning within the framework of the applicable building law. Uster AG has sound experience in the fields of residential and public buildings.

**Architecture

Architecture is the term used to describe man's interaction with the built and enclosed space. This includes in particular the drafting, design and construction of buildings according to economic, constructive and functional laws.

Competencies/Achievements: Drafting, design and construction of residential and commercial buildings for private and public clients.

**Interior architecture

Interior architecture deals with the planning and design of interior spaces. This includes technical-constructive aspects as well as aesthetic-artistic concerns. The continuous development of building services and multimedia technology make interior architecture an extremely dynamic and versatile field.

Competencies/Services: Interior design of banks, commercial buildings, medical practices, stores, notary offices and residential buildings.

Construction

Construction includes all activities related to the realization of a building - from drawing up specifications, obtaining contractor bids, awarding contracts and on-site construction management to controlling costs, deadlines and quality. Uster AG ensures the smooth interaction of architects, engineers, geologists, building technicians, building physicists as well as construction companies and craftsmen with a tight project and construction management.

Competencies/Services:

• Preparation and control of specifications, contracts and schedules
• Transparent construction administration with ongoing cost and schedule control. Project management
• GU/TU

**Real estate fiduciary services

Whether buying, selling, financing or mortgaging: real estate trusteeship encompasses all strategic considerations relating to real estate. Uster AG guarantees a serious real estate trust with well-founded experience.

Competencies/Services:

• Search and development of building land
• Appraisals of properties
• Marketing concepts for initial and renewed leases
• Project planning and realization of large projects
• Planning and construction of condominiums
• facility management.
• Planning and building law issues as well as notarial law
• Purchase, sale and financing of real estate
• Advice on the division of estates

**Property management

Real estate management offers advice and assistance in all matters relating to real estate. Uster AG ensures professional real estate management with its well-founded experience.

Competencies/Services:

• Rent structuring
• Management of construction accounting
• Payments and annual financial statements
• Organization and management of the annual floor owners' meetings
• Caretaking
• Acceptance and handover of rental properties
• Settlement of damage and insurance claims
• Inventories and condition assessments
• Cycle renovations and tenant improvements
• Placing orders for craftsmen