Keyman Relocation Services

Keyman Relocation Services in the Cheshire, South Manchester and UK.

Relocation services
Operating in South Manchester & Cheshire, John Brown has a history spanning some 20 years in this Specialist Sector.

Companies attracting new senior staff from outside the locality usually need to provide settlement assistance to ensure that the new employee arrives in good order. This is especially relevant if there is a spouse and children and in some ways, their wellbeing is more important than that of the employee. This is called the " Trailing Spouse Syndrome".

Services include individually escorted familiarisation tours as well as Rentsearch and Homesearch programmes.

The Familiarisation Tour is designed to show the incoming relocatee not only the bright and shiny parts of the destination area but also those parts best avoided, for what ever reasons. If children are involved, then an overview of schools is given, together with leisure facilities. The aim is to provide a general but cogent impression of the whole area. The tour usually takes the best part of a day and the client is picked up from the office/hotel/airport etc and dropped back. During the debrief following, sensible choices can then be made about the preferred target zones within the whole area.

The Rentsearch and Homesearch Services are similar in that they both hinge on the person describing in as much detail as possible where they want to live. The market is analysed and all the property available within the criteria given is collected. That which is obvoiusly unsuitable is discarded. This leaves the residue of possible solutions. These are individually inspected and a shortlist of probable choices is assembled. The relocateee is invited to inspect them on an escorted itinerary and usually a choice is made. The negotiations for the proposed rental or purchase then begin. The aim is to provide complete assistance right through to the physical possession of the chosen property.

Individuals also use these services, especially those who have little time to search or those who are unable to sustain a focus locally because of distance. Some find that although they have arrived sucessfully in the new area, they see the advantage of using a locally based professional to negotiate a property acquisition at a preferential price.

For more information on all these services, please call John Brown on +44 (0)1625-820899.