Rent deposit account – The account for those who want to pay a rent deposit.

Do you rent an apartment, an office or other premises and have to pay a deposit? The rent deposit account serves your landlord to cover rent losses and damages.

The rent deposit account at a glance

Interest is charged on the deposit amount
Free account management
Securing the rental deposit

Opening process

Complete the first page of the contract (the other pages will be filled in automatically).
Print the complete form set (pages 1–7) double-sided.
Sign the three original copies of the contract (one copy is for the Bank, one for the tenant and one for the landlord).
Send us the full form set (pages 1–7) to the address provided in the contract, and we will open the rent deposit account.
When the account has been opened, we will return the original contract copies (with the addition of the account number) to the tenant and the landlord.
The tenant can then pay in the deposit.

Open rent deposit account

Closing process

Complete page 7 of the contract (pages 1–6 are not required).
Sign the form.
Send the form to us at the address provided in the contract.
We will close the rent deposit account and transfer the balance in accordance with the instructions.

Close rent deposit account

Further information

Interest rates and prices

Rate of interest	No interest Overdraft interest 10,000%
Account opening	Free of charge for clients with a ZugerKB account set or a current account CHF 30.00 for other clients
Account management	Free of charge
Advice notes	Free of charge ¹⁾
Account statement ²⁾	Free of charge ¹⁾
Account balancing	Free of charge
Postage	Free of charge for e-bank vouchers Standard B Mail (on request A Mail) will be charged once per shipment and recipient.
Account balancing	CHF 20.00

1) Delivery by post plus postage fee.

2) CHF 10.00 per reproduced account statement.

Details

Currency	CHF
Advice notes	To both the Tenant and the Landlord
Account statement	Once a year to the Tenant (also to Landlord on request)
Account balancing	Annual
Withdrawals	In accordance with "Rental agreement deposit"
Prerequisite	Rental property is located in Switzerland
Note	The rental agreement deposit sets out the contractual relationship between the rental parties and Zuger Kantonalbank. You will find the current version of the agreement on our website. For opening a rent deposit account, we only accept our own rental agreement deposit. We cannot accept, and will have to return, any agreements from other providers or older versions of our own agreement.