#executive relocation help

Pavilion Relocation’s executive relocation help caters to those looking to relocate to the UK. Our particular area of expertise covers London and the home counties.

If you are relocating to London then make sure you set aside some time to visit Portabello Road Market in Notting Hill which is open every Saturday. There is so much to enjoy from Vintage clothes, antique memorabilia, contemporary glass and ceramic shops and great clothes, bags and shoes if you dare to be different!

The street food is amazing with huge vats of Paella, Indian delicacies, Nutella pancakes – definitely a must for the little people. It is vibrant, fun and has a vast array of restaurants with E & O restaurant offering fusion cuisine and the best water melon martinis in town!! There is also great Italian and Pizza options and plenty of coffee houses.

Exhibitions

The David Hockney Exhibition which is currently on display at the Royal Academy is definitely a must see. Vibrant, quirky and fun, the paintings are displayed with flare and originality and your emerge feeling buoyed up and full of life. His i-pad paintings are amazing and until I read the blurb I had not realised that that is what they were. Well worth setting aside a couple of hours to visit this wonderful exhibition.

Lucien Freud at the National Portrait Gallery provides an interesting contrast to the David Hockney Exhibition. Darker and more descriptive drawings which give a markedly different take on life. They tend to focus on the human form rather than the wider landscape. Fascinating nevertheless and his depiction of the female form is sometimes questionable. Is he depicting women as being beautiful in whatever their shape or form or is he actually saying something else?

If you choose Pavilion Relocation for executive relocation help we will ensure that you not only find the best location and home that you could wish for, but we will also try and ensure that your time, however fleeting, will encompass as much orientation of the area that you have chosen to live in as we can.

From our own personal experience having gone through numerous relocations and moves, helping people with our relocating services, we think the following points are well worth noting:

1. Stay calm and plan ahead.

2. Make sure that the company HR department will sort out any necessary immigration matters such as appropriate visas for you and your family. It is vital that this is sorted out by a professional.

3. Once you know where your job will be located, you can decide where you want to live, dependant upon transport links and the schooling needs of your children.

4. Know your housing budget - do you want apartment living in London or would you prefer a house in London, or would a house within commuting distance be more acceptable to you? Will you require unfurnished or furnished accommodation?

5. If you are moving with your children you will need to consider the type of schooling you want for them whether it be an international school or a local state or private school.

6. Make sure you know the budget for the removal companies. Get at least three comparable quotes.

7. If your budget allows it then use a relocation professional or home search agent. Their relocating services will be able to help you with:

The orientation of the area you decide upon.

House viewings.

Negotiate the rental or purchase of your property (as they have extensive knowledge of the housing market and contractual requirements).

School appointments.

Lists of health practitioners in the area from dentists to doctors and hospitals.

General local information on shops, entertainment, culture, and transport links.

8. Work to your deadlines. Line up the shippers, the date for commencement of the tenancy agreement, the start date for the schools etc.

9. Think about your transport generally. Will a car be needed for the family?

10. Embrace the move. It will be challenging but with the help of a relocation agent your move should be a seamless, fun and interesting experience.

Pavilion Relocation provides executive relocation help that not only finds our clients a suitable home near their workplace, but that also helps find the right school for their children too... as we know many people have more than just work commitments to uphold in 2012.

With 2011 now over we all know the state of the property market was slow in 2011, but let’s take a look at what happened to house prices using the Halifax House Price Index (HPI) to 30 September 2011.

Briefly we have ranked the rising hotspots from highest gain nationally:

1. It may be surprising but London’s prices didn't rise the fastest. In fact, looking at the data East Anglia pipped the capital to the post, with the price of an average home rising by nearly £10,000 (6.4%) in 12 months. Perhaps London commuters still see East Anglia as an attractively priced place to buy a home.

2. In second place was Wales, with prices up by over £5,400 (4%) in 12 months to nearly £140,000. With property prices below the UK average, Wales has rebounded stronger than most regions in 2011.

3. In third place, with our executive relocation help, we found the typical home priced well below the UK average, the 2.7% rebound in house prices in the North West of England.

4. Despite costing almost £100,000 more than the UK average, the average price of a home in the UK's capital rose by over £5,000 (2%) in 12 months

As part of our executive relocation help, in a separate blog, we will be looking at the general forecast for 2012 from a number of property analysts.

When families relocate to the UK they do not often think, or have the chance to think when it is a good time or not to relocate UK. With pressures from employers the families could miss out on potential savings especially if the family are contributing to the relocation.

However from our experience, relocate UK is always a costly event, but families can make savings if you know when to move and hopefully avoid what are perceived as monthly increases in the move.

Obviously much depends on the potential employer move, but we would say if you have a Relocate UK package, relocation is all about timing.

If you are moving locally then avoid a beginning or end of month move, as these tend to be the most popular times and therefore the most expensive period, as competition is rife. The reason being is that tenancies tend to start at the beginning and end of the month, and whilst not forgetting about storage costs this could also increase at this time. It is the savvy and organised families that can try to keep costs down by a mid-month move with their removal firm. Also to keep costs to a low in a mid-month always negotiate, as there is always room in the warehouses for an agreed price!