Real estate agency in Crans-Montana & Valais

Managing the rental yourself is entirely possible, provided you do not underestimate the workload. In addition to publishing an ad on a platform, managing your rental means answering potential guests’ frequent questions, making long journeys to maintain and check your property, coordinating arrivals and departures while organizing cleaning and laundry, etc. Achieving optimal profitability requires knowledge and effort that are sometimes difficult to provide when you already have a busy life. Renting your property yourself risks to take a lot of your time and energy with no guaranteed results. By building a partnership with Alpimmia, you stack the odds in your favor, while avoiding the hassle !

This is where we make the difference in comparision with « startups » or other « concierges » who are satisfied to publish on booking platforms, not forgetting to charge you a high price – in addition to their usual percentage, terms that appear in very small print in their contract. At Alpimmia, your property will first and foremost be introduced on our own website, social networks, and this is our best strength: to our loyal customers (presence on the Crans-Montana real estate market since 1986). Direct bookings are more favorable for owners because they avoid platform extra fees and allow us to fight for our independence against conditions that are issued by international-based companies, whose main concern is a big return for their shareholders.

Without additional commission cost: your property will be presented simultaneously on 4 sites, including Google Traval. Optionally for you, we publish on Airbnb where we are “superhost”. Our software gives us the freedom to publish – or not – on these channels and for example, to keep the weeks of high demand (New Year, February break), exclusively for direct booking. We use technological tools allowing us to gather the management of your occupancy calendar, photos and prices. As our experience together will grow, we will be able to improve the performance of your property over time, identify its assets and build loyalty among guests who have enjoyed their stay.

The homeowner and his family can stay in the accommodation at their convenience and without any restrictions. For calendar management purposes, we ask you to share your dates in advance. With each new booking, you will receive a notification that will allow you to follow the periods of occupancy. You can of course communicate additional dates for your private occupations at any time, as long as the period is still vacant. Thus, the dates reserved by the owner will appear as unavailable.

Unlike « concierge services », your keys will be kept securely at our agency’s office. We firstly support a human welcome in order to hand over the keys and get to know the travelers. It is only in the event of arrival outside opening hours that the keys will be placed in a secure key box available at the address of our office, ideally located in the center of Crans-Montana, with public parking spots easily available. For security reasons, don’t work with  key boxes permanently abandoned in unsupervised buildings. We are bilingual French/English, which allows us to fluently communicate with our international clientele. We will take care of providing instructions for finding your accommodation, highlight key points as well as some information on local customs.

If there is one essential element that should not be forgotten, it is the quality of the cleaning. We work with a small team of cleaning professionals. All are declared to accident and social security insurance. We prepare the beds before each arrival. On this occasion, we ensure that the accommodation is ready and in a good condition. We also include some welcome essentials.

We are happy to organize cleaning services after the owner or his family, based on an hourly rate that will be invoiced in your rental statement.

We also take care of organizing repairs in collaboration with local companies and manage any unexpected event during a stay.

The profile on the Internet exclusively mentions the contact of our agency, your identity will never appear on the web and your confidentiality will be preserved at all times. We will take care of managing all interactions: from the first questions as well as all the follow-up before, during and after the stay.

Nothing is set forever. You renew your trust for a 6-month periods. Getting started in short-term rental requires a certain amount of patience before seeing real benefits. Although our agency allows to get started quickly, you will need to be persistent for your property to perform well. It is in that sense that we recommend that you give us time to prove ourselves, over a period of at least 1 year.

Yes. With a Swiss property manager certificate, we have all the skills required to manage traditional rentals subject to tenancy law. We are also able to offer your property for rental during the winter season. Nothing is definitive, we offer the flexibility, for example, to switch from a tourist rental to a year-round rental.

We make use of all possible shields in the event of damage, including a deposit that is required for all direct bookings. We will then be able to release it in the event of damage. For bookings via platforms, we have post experiences, which allows us to get straight to the point and ensure the best possible defense of your interests. The best protection remains to work with a base of loyal tenants already known to our services with an impeccable history. For this reason, we emphasize our commitment to direct bookings.

For your part, we recommend taking out furniture-household and owner liability insurance. We encourage you to discuss this point with your insurance advisor.

Concerned as much about the optimization of our common revenues as a good balance with the quality of the travelers, we work on rental durations from 7 nights. However on the periods of Mid- and Off- season: we open to 4 nights minimum. We do not proceed 1 night or weekend rentals due to inconclusive experiences.

Whenever you want ! Just contact us.