2024-03-12 22:51:16
Bazzile offers more than 285,000 ads between French-speaking Switzerland and France. Image: watson / dr
Bazzile, an app created by a Swiss start-up, intends to make a place for itself in the real estate market. Whether you are a professional in the sector or a client looking for a property, we are promised “the first mobile application which centralizes all the publicly available real estate offerings in French-speaking Switzerland”. We tested it.
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In French-speaking Switzerland, especially in urban centers, the search for an apartment or a house often resembles an obstacle course. Who has never wanted to shout “OK, shit, we’ll stay in this poorly heated 3.5 room apartment”, while trying to find a new cozy nest?
Especially since you have to search several different real estate portals, or create an alert on Comparis, where the ads are not always up to date, and where the search filters are relatively limited.
Like a dating app
A new addition to the market intends to help users find the right fit more easily, whether for rental or real estate purchase.
Bazzile offers more than 285,000 ads between French-speaking Switzerland and France. “Bazzile becomes the first mobile application to centralize all publicly available real estate offerings in French-speaking Switzerland,” assures the press release.
“Bazzile is a fun, universal and ethical real estate search mobile application, certified Swiss Made Software. It offers its users a new way to navigate through sales and rental advertisements, based on the “swipe” system popularized by dating applications, and is distinguished by its search engine enriched with machine learning and boosted by AI.”
Bazzile Technology SA in a press release.
Concretely, the mobile application is supposed to facilitate contact between potential clients and real estate professionals. It aggregates ads from different sites, that is to say it collects them to offer them in its app.
“Certified by the Swiss Made Software label, Bazzile also guarantees maximum protection of user and professional data”
Bazzile Technology SA in a press release.
Bazzile? We tested
The app is quite pleasant to use and relatively intuitive. Designed on the dating model, handling is quite natural. All you have to do is create an account and launch a first search.
There are, however, two or three drawbacks: some real estate advertisements whose display is not optimal, and some are well out of date (for example: there are apartments for which visits are scheduled for February, without further details).
Others do not include photos; painful criteria, which slow down research. With a little artificial intelligence, the company could easily decide not to display these ads on its app. Can do better on AI, that is. On the other hand, if you do not want to see ads marked “price on request” appear, you can check this option. GOOD!
Generally speaking, the Bazzile interface is dynamic, and our test search for an apartment in Lausanne, initiated the day before, is still remembered the next day. The app suggests picking up where we left off, or launching another search, with new criteria. The results appear either on a map, like Airbnb, very practical for precisely targeting the neighborhoods that interest us, or like on Tinder, and all you have to do is “like” or reject the ad to move on to the next one. It is impossible, however, to post an ad yourself if you are looking for a buyer for your apartment: on this point, clearly, it does not replace MarketPlace and its rat race.
In the end, the application, free for users looking for a property, is rather well designed. In addition to common criteria, such as surface area, number of rooms or price, we can specify whether we are looking for new, old, renovated old… Other criteria are currently being developed.
For now, all we have to do is swipe until we find the rare gem. App or not, the Lausanne real estate market is particularly tense, you have to be patient and courageous. We cross fingers!
Bazzile who?
Bazzile Technology SA is a Swiss start-up based in Geneva. It combines tech and real estate expertise. “The company is driven by a passion for innovation and a commitment to providing superior digital solutions in the field of real estate sales and rentals. The conquest of other markets will follow in the coming months,” the press release further tells us.
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