History of UMS

1990 The new tenancy law which allows subletting is introduced in Switzerland.
1992 As a student, Nik Kleiner sets up the Mitwohnservice Bern, the first business in Switzerland to specialise in the agency of temporarily sublet apartments.
1997 Jürg Guggisberg founds a licensed branch in Basel. The Mitwohnservice is now called Untermietservice.
1999 A licensed branch is established in Zurich. From 2002, it also belongs to Nik Kleiner.
2004 The three branches Bern, Basel and Zurich merge to one company in Bern - UMS Temporary Housing is born.
2006 Christian Beldner takes the operative management.
2007 UMS is certificated to train apprentices.
2008

Foundation of the public limited company UMS Ltd.

Development & Implementation of a spefific concept for the EURO 2008 in Switzerland.

2009 Implementation of a customer survey in co-operation with the Swiss Tourism Association. We receive an average score of 3.6 (maximum of 4). An outstanding result was achieved by our employees: nearly 3.8 points.
  UMS launches its brand new Internet portal together with the newest IT-Application, called Appartementschik 3.