Selling property tax-free – these are the rules. As of: March 1, 2024, 3:49 p.m By: Markus Hofstetter CommentsPressSplit There are strict limits to the tax- free sale of real estate.

The focus is on the question of private use. Sellers have to take this into account. A couple bought an apartment in which the wife's mother lived free of charge. After their mother died in 2016, the couple sold the apartment a year later. The tax office rightly demanded its share of the sales profit.