Management & Administration
Build a grounded understanding of property management, marketing and financial assessment in Switzerland. This programme connects legal orientation with administrative, technical and commercial responsibilities. Work with typical documents and cases, understand the interfaces between specialists and develop a structured approach to property-related tasks. The scope and depth are adapted to your experience and intended professional application.
Request informationYOUR PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
For individuals & organisationsWe agree a start that fits your professional and personal commitments.
OSAM certificates: according to your starting level and learning goals. Company group programmes are usually planned in days or half-days.
Federal preparation: see pathway durations belowSynchronous teaching. Both formats include the OSAM platform for course materials and organisational information.
From an eduQua-certified institution.
Related federal examination pathwaysAn individual quotation confirms the programme, delivery format and applicable fees.
Highly personalised teaching with experienced practitioners working at a high professional level.
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO CAPABILITY
For people entering the property sector, employees of management and brokerage firms, administrative professionals and owners seeking a clearer understanding of property operations.
YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY
These modules form the core programme. Where useful, we refine the emphasis, examples and learning activities to reflect your professional context, starting point and objectives.
Distinguish property types and the responsibilities of owners, tenants, managers and other specialists. Use examples to explore common property documentation and land register information. Identify missing facts and assess information by its origin, currency and relevance to the specific task or decision being considered.
Explore key questions about rental agreements, rights, duties and the end of a tenancy. Introduce condominium ownership through responsibilities, regulations and meetings. Exercises show which documents support a proper review and when an issue should be referred for specialist legal assessment rather than handled informally.
Structure the preparation of a letting or sale from the initial mandate to communication with prospective clients. Practise clear property descriptions, viewing arrangements and useful follow-up. Pay attention to personal information and distinguish verified property facts from assumptions or statements that require further supporting evidence.
Connect ongoing administration with maintenance, incident reports and coordination of service providers. Simplified cases cover budgets, records and monitoring work. Develop checkpoints that make responsibilities, deadlines and quality visible while recognising situations that require a technical professional's inspection or specialist judgement.
Distinguish purchase price, funding requirements, operating costs and income. Compare gross and net views through transparent examples and examine the assumptions behind valuation approaches. Consider location, use, condition and financing risks as part of careful assessment rather than reducing a property decision to one indicator.
Develop orientation in planning documents, building condition and potential renewal measures. Exercises connect technical questions with operation, asset upkeep and energy considerations. Finish by preparing a structured review checklist for a property and assigning unresolved matters to the appropriate specialists or competent authorities.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND YOUR PROGRESS
Educational direction, subject expertise and adult learning support. Your final trainer assignment is confirmed in your proposal.
DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Managing Director
Simon Pawolleck provides OSAM’s overall direction. The focus is on relevant skills, a clear learning structure and personal support that connects professional ambitions with practical progress.
EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE
Programme Director · Real Estate
Frédéric Schmalz brings the programme’s subject expertise into focus. The educational approach connects a structured foundation with practical situations, relevant exercises and feedback aligned with your professional objectives.
ADULT LEARNING & ANDRAGOGY
Head of Adult Learning
Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Adult Education
Sandrine Mélé oversees the adult learning approach: coherent progression, active participation and learning methods that take account of prior experience. She supports a structured, practical and human approach to developing competence.
SWISS FEDERAL QUALIFICATION PATHWAYS
OSAM offers the following examination preparation in related fields. An OSAM certificate course in this topic is not automatically the complete federal preparation programme. We confirm the appropriate pathway, scope and admission requirements with you before enrolment.
SFPKIW / CSEEI / CEPSEI — Schweizerische Fachprüfungskommission der Immobilienwirtschaft
A recognised qualification followed by three years of professional real estate practice, or five years of real estate practice without that qualification. At least two years must be in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. No criminal record incompatible with the examination. The examination commission decides admission.
External professional examination with written and oral components. SFPKIW publishes examination regulations, assessment formats, registration and fees.
The examination organisation decides on admission. Its current examination regulations and deadlines take precedence; preparation and examination registration are separate steps. We confirm the preparation language separately from the examination language: an English-language information page does not mean the federal examination is offered in English.
SFPKIW / CSEEI / CEPSEI — Schweizerische Fachprüfungskommission der Immobilienwirtschaft
A recognised qualification followed by three years of professional real estate practice, or five years of real estate practice without that qualification. At least two years must be in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. No criminal record incompatible with the examination. The examination commission decides admission.
External professional examination with written and oral components. SFPKIW publishes examination regulations, assessment formats, registration and fees.
The examination organisation decides on admission. Its current examination regulations and deadlines take precedence; preparation and examination registration are separate steps. We confirm the preparation language separately from the examination language: an English-language information page does not mean the federal examination is offered in English.
SFPKIW / CSEEI / CEPSEI — Schweizerische Fachprüfungskommission der Immobilienwirtschaft
A recognised qualification followed by three years of professional real estate practice, or five years of real estate practice without that qualification. At least two years must be in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. No criminal record incompatible with the examination. The examination commission decides admission.
External professional examination with written and oral components and a project. Project topics, submission and assessment follow the SFPKIW guidance.
The examination organisation decides on admission. Its current examination regulations and deadlines take precedence; preparation and examination registration are separate steps. We confirm the preparation language separately from the examination language: an English-language information page does not mean the federal examination is offered in English.
SFPKIW / CSEEI / CEPSEI — Schweizerische Fachprüfungskommission der Immobilienwirtschaft
A federal real estate professional qualification, an advanced federal diploma, a higher professional college diploma or a university degree. At least three years of professional real estate practice after that qualification, including two in Switzerland. The examination commission assesses equivalence and admission.
External advanced professional examination with written and oral components and a diploma project. SFPKIW publishes the binding regulations, timetable and project requirements.
The examination organisation decides on admission. Its current examination regulations and deadlines take precedence; preparation and examination registration are separate steps. We confirm the preparation language separately from the examination language: an English-language information page does not mean the federal examination is offered in English.
Federal professional qualifications are awarded through the relevant federal examination. eduQua certifies the continuing education institution; it does not itself award a federal qualification.
SBFI / SERI — official professional qualifications registerActive at a high professional level, selected against demanding criteria.
Developing the skills of their employees with OSAM.
An experience centred on the people who learn with us.
Personal career goals. Shared organisational priorities.
SERI / SEFRIeduQua-certified institution. Federal qualifications listed by SERI in selected pathways.
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GOOD TO KNOW
For people entering the property sector, employees of management and brokerage firms, administrative professionals and owners seeking a clearer understanding of property operations. The programme is available to private individuals and organisations, including company teams. OSAM welcomes learners living or working in Switzerland as well as international participants joining live online.
OSAM is an eduQua-certified continuing education institution. An OSAM certificate documents the learning agreed for your programme; eduQua is a quality label for the institution, not federal recognition of every individual course.
The related federal qualifications listed on this page are recognised Swiss qualifications, recorded in the official SERI register. They require the prescribed federal examination and admission conditions.
SERI / SEFRI official registerOSAM’s work connects individual professional development with the needs of companies in Switzerland and internationally. Client references and learner reviews below offer a practical view of that work.
You develop skills you can apply in real situations, with guidance from experienced practitioners and access to learning materials on the OSAM platform. The programme focuses on these outcomes:
Yes. We start with the established programme and refine the emphasis, practical cases and learning support where useful. Adjustments take account of the individual or company’s professional context, existing skills and goals. The agreed programme is confirmed before enrolment; federal examination requirements remain binding where applicable.
For the OSAM certificate, contact us to review your current level, prior experience and objectives. We will confirm the appropriate entry requirements and any recommended preparation.
A recognised qualification followed by three years of professional real estate practice, or five years of real estate practice without that qualification. At least two years must be in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. No criminal record incompatible with the examination. The examination commission decides admission.
Examination details & official sourcesA recognised qualification followed by three years of professional real estate practice, or five years of real estate practice without that qualification. At least two years must be in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. No criminal record incompatible with the examination. The examination commission decides admission.
Examination details & official sourcesA recognised qualification followed by three years of professional real estate practice, or five years of real estate practice without that qualification. At least two years must be in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. No criminal record incompatible with the examination. The examination commission decides admission.
Examination details & official sourcesA federal real estate professional qualification, an advanced federal diploma, a higher professional college diploma or a university degree. At least three years of professional real estate practice after that qualification, including two in Switzerland. The examination commission assesses equivalence and admission.
Examination details & official sourcesYes. The learning plan can begin with fundamental terminology and processes. Your prior experience and professional aims determine which topics require greater depth and which practical exercises are most useful.
An OSAM continuing education programme does not automatically award a federal qualification. Such qualifications have separate admission and examination requirements, and a dedicated preparation pathway must be expressly agreed.
The foundation is Swiss property practice. Cantonal or property-specific questions can feature in agreed cases; individual legal, tax or investment decisions may require separate advice from an appropriate specialist.
YOUR CAREER, IN PERSPECTIVE
Depending on your experience and qualifications, this subject can support development in the following professional directions.
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