Part IV: Handover
2. Room-by-Room Technical Inspection
Swiss law (Art. 367–371 CO) gives you two years of protection for visible defects and five years for hidden or structural defects. However, to preserve your rights, you must notify the developer as soon as possible after discovering any issues.
While not every missed detail at handover leads to a dispute — you typically have several weeks to document additional defects — it’s still important to carry out a careful and methodical inspection. A formal two-year follow-up inspection (Zweijahresabnahme) will later address defects that appear over time.
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