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’ frequently asked questions, making a sometimes long journey to maintain your property, coordinating arrival and departure times 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 taking up a lot of your time and energy with no guarantee of results. By opting to collaborate with Alpimmia, you put all the chances on your side, while avoiding the hassle !

This is where we make the difference in comparision with « startups » or other « concierges » who are content to publish only on big 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 advantageous for owners because they avoid platform fees and allow them to defend a certain independence in the long term to avoid conditions that are issued by abroad-based companies, whose only concern is a big return for their shareholders.

Without additional commission deduction: your property will be presented simultaneously on 4 sites. Optionally for you and in addition of direct booking, we recommend publishing on airbnb and hometogo, because visibility is an important factor. 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 in one place the management of your occupancy calendar, photos and prices. As our experience together progresses, we will be able to improve the presentation 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 communicate your dates to us in advance. In addition, with each new reservation recorded, 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. We favor 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 the resort with public parking spaces available. For security reasons, we have given up on key boxes permanently abandoned in unsupervised buildings. We are bilingual French/English, which allows us to communicate with an international clientele. We will take care of providing instructions for finding your accommodation, the essential points as well as some information on local customs.

If there is one essential point that should not be overlooked, 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. We also include some welcome items.

In this extension, we can organize cleaning services after the owner or his family has occupied the property, based on an hourly rate that will be included in your rental statement.

We also take care of organizing repairs in collaboration with local companies (invoice at your expense) and manage any unexpected event during a stay.

The profile on the platforms 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 in 6-month periods. Getting started in short-term rental requires a certain amount of patience before reaping the 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 implement all possible means 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 experience in several cases, 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 the yield as a good balance with the quality of the travelers, we work on rental durations from 7 nights. However on the periods of Off season: we open to 5 nights minimum. We do not proceed with rentals for 1 night or for the weekend following inconclusive experiences.

Whenever you want !