Residential, well served by trams, and roughly equidistant from both universities. The compromise nobody regrets: less lively than Kreis 4, cheaper than the centre, and you can be at either campus in a quarter of an hour.
Landlords in Wiedikon ask for the same file as anywhere in the canton: a debt-collection extract, proof of income, and a guarantor who lives in Switzerland. Two of those are impossible before you arrive, which is why flatshares and private landlords are the realistic route from abroad.
Your deposit is capped at three months of net rent — up to CHF 4'050 at the top of the range here — and it is blocked in your own name, not the landlord's. How the deposit works
We co-sign leases so the file gets accepted, and we search the market when our own rooms are full.