TWO VILLAS, ONE SIGNATURE: QUALITY

29/07/2026

In the prime market, people often talk about location, views, square metres. Far less about the one characteristic that, in our experience, truly separates an important property from an ordinary one: quality. Not as a brochure adjective, but as the verifiable sum of construction choices, materials, systems and attention to detail.

Two properties currently for sale with MDA Group tell this story better than any definition: "The Jewel" in Origlio (CHF 5,260,000) and the villa on the Collina di Pregassona (CHF 5,700,000). Two different settings — the bucolic green of Lake Origlio on one side, the hill above the Gulf of Lugano on the other — but an identical common denominator: they were built well, built to last, and it shows.

"The Jewel", Origlio — Ref. VS000877 · CHF 5,260,000

"The Jewel" — Origlio: quality as invisible technology

The double-height living room: total transparency onto the zen garden

Built in 2016, "The Jewel" is a charming 671 m² (commercial) villa set in a zen garden that frames every room like a living painting. The dramatic living room, with full-height glazing and 5.60-metre ceilings, seems to dissolve into the greenery.

But quality is measured beneath the surface. Here, the list speaks for itself:

• State-of-the-art systems: heat pump with geothermal probes, photovoltaic panels, underfloor heating, air conditioning and controlled mechanical ventilation — real energy efficiency, not just declared;
• Home automation with remote control, alarm system and triple-glazed, panoramic, burglar-resistant window frames;
• Refined, exceptional finishes: kitchen with Gaggenau appliances, master suite with panoramic bathroom, hammam and precious mosaics, resin and parquet flooring;
• Spaces designed for real life: four bedroom suites, seven bathrooms, in-house gym, outdoor party area with kitchen and BBQ, seven parking spaces and an internal lift.

The outdoor living area with party zone: quality extends outside

The location completes the picture: romantic Origlio, with its small lake and nature trails, minutes from Lugano and from Ticino's most prestigious schools — TASIS, Franklin College, Istituto Elvetico and USI. With the possibility of applying for secondary-residence status: a detail that opens the property to international buyers as well.

Collina di Pregassona — above the city, into the green: quality as view and turnkey living

The villa on the Collina di Pregassona · CHF 5,700,000

Completed in 2020, the Pregassona villa expresses quality in another register: lightness. 300 m² of living space, 6.5 rooms, full-height glazing opening every room onto a magnificent lake view — the Gulf of Lugano and Monte San Salvatore literally enter the house. The living room dissolves into the terrace and the heated pool: you live with the lake in sight, from every room.

The view from the pool: the Gulf of Lugano and Monte San Salvatore

Here too, substance beneath the aesthetics:

• Recent construction (2020) and luxury standard: geothermal underfloor heating — the same engineering philosophy as "The Jewel" — latest-generation home automation, full-height glazing and integrated security;
• A genuinely turnkey purchase: the price is all-inclusive — designer furnishings, heated pool, active systems and nine parking spaces: 3 large indoor, 1 covered city-car, 1 outdoor guest space and 4 further outdoor spaces. You arrive with a suitcase;
• A strategic setting: the forest 25 metres from the boundary, central Lugano about 4 km away and the bus stop at 55 metres — hillside privacy with the city at your feet.

Where the living room opens to the water: total indoor-outdoor continuity

The common thread: quality you can touch (and quality you cannot see)

Placing these two villas side by side reveals something more interesting than their differences. "The Jewel" is intimate, wrapped in greenery, technological; Pregassona is open, panoramic, ready to live in. Yet anyone visiting them perceives the same thing: nothing is left to chance.

It is the quality you can touch — the mosaics of a hammam, the wood of a kitchen, the glass of a wall that disappears — and the quality you cannot see but live with every day: both villas are heated geothermally and run by latest-generation home automation, with mechanical ventilation, security window frames, one build done properly in 2016 and one done properly in 2020. In the CHF 5–6 million segment, this difference is not aesthetic: it is economic. A property built to this standard holds its value, reduces running costs and asks no compromises of those who live in it.

It is the criterion by which we select every property in our portfolio: before telling a villa's story, we verify how it was built. Valuation and strategy. Always.

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"The Jewel" — Origlio, Ref. VS000877 · Villa Collina di Pregassona — Lugano. Via Zurigo 34, Lugano · +41 91 210 47 58 · welcome@mdagroup-re.ch · mdagroup-re.ch