What are the benefits of an Orientation Tour for Your Relocating Employee?
So, you’ve been given the task of making sure that the senior manager you are relocating to the UK with his/her family has the best experience possible. You want them to find a property that’s in the right location for their lifestyle, affordability and schooling needs.
Booking an orientation tour, that is the ability to assess and compare areas before settling on 1 or 2 chosen areas, really does help a corporate relocation go more smoothly as it gives the employee a greater understanding of their new environment, what size properties are available within their rental budgets and styles of properties on the market in their new location and a better idea of commutes.
Orientation/Familiarisation Tours
Colleagues and friends will be full of recommendations on where your employee should live but is that location best for them and their personal circumstances?
An orientation tour is undertaken before the focused property search tour. We ensure the tour gives an employee and their family an insight into new surroundings enhancing their understanding, confidence and knowledge helping them to make an informed decision on where to live.
On an orientation tour day, the employee will be shown several locations that work for their requirements taking into account the style and size of property they are looking for alongside the practical needs of transport links to get to work, lifestyle and schooling needs.
An experienced relocation consultant will have spent a day planning a well organised tour for them and they will drive them around the agreed areas. The day will include being shown local transport link locations, shopping and other local amenities such as parks and other leisure areas. For example if you were looking at the area of Hampstead, a leafy suburb in north London, we may show you a couple of properties in the vicinity that match your budget, as well as local shopping facilities, doctors surgeries such as Hampstead Group Practice, local attractions like Hampstead Heath as well as the local bus and train links.
The relocating client will also be shown a couple of properties in each location so that they have an indication of the style and size of property which they can expect to find in specific areas within their budget.
After the orientation tour your employee will have the opportunity to discuss their thoughts with the relocation consultant who will establish what style, price and location of property which will work best for them and their family. After this process clients will move onto their more focused property search to find the property that matches most closely to their requirements.
Relocation companies offer a wide range of relocation support services including:
– Finding short term accommodation whilst the employee searches for a long term rental property
– Orientation or familiarisation tours
– Finding a family home to rent in the right location
– Support with their tenancy application and dealing with letting agents
– Advice on setting up a tenancy agreement and rental term options
– Settling in services such as advice on how the health service works in the UK, opening a UK bank account, support with setting up utility accounts etc.
– Checking the inventory on the new property to ensure its accuracy
