Corporate Housing

Maybe you have a team of young trainees who would like to gain more experience working at your company’s headquarters for a few months, or maybe your company would like to send a team of senior executives to share their expertise with various local offices.

Whatever the case, whether you’re looking to house 5 or 100 people, finding temporary accommodation in today’s housing market will be tough. Not to mention expensive. Your options might be Airbnb or hotels, but bar the price, such locations might not be compliant with your corporate standards and you would have the added headache of having to check the locations - where they are situated, what is the basic standard of living there, and so on.

When you need an out-of-the-box housing option, Corporate Apartment Management may be right for you.

Corporate Apartment Management is a Packimpex service designed to help corporations who relocate employees that require housing solutions for a temporary period of time. Briefly put, we find the apartments you need, wherever that may be, we furnish them, manage them and handle all apartment related costs and invoices.

This way, you can breathe easy: you don’t have to worry about tight housing markets or expensive hotels. You can transfer your employees seamlessly and they will enjoy a pleasant experience from day one.

This service was born out of our experience working with large corporations. It is a unique solution that you won’t find anywhere else. Thanks to its unique position, Packimpex is able to interconnect corporate housing pools from various companies, leveraging synergies to reduce costs and optimize vacancy rates for all participants.

The Corporate Apartment Management service was designed to offer you flexible solutions at an advantageous rate. To achieve that, we have come up with a unique two-pronged approach:

A core apartment pool, made of apartments that we source directly from owners or real estate agents in complete alignment with your budget, size, and location needs. The apartments are furnished with our own line of top-quality furniture. Because we aim for 100% occupancy, you avoid paying the steep costs of temporary accommodation in Switzerland and your transferees enjoy a house that feels like home from day one. We constantly optimise this pool according to your needs and the expected number of transfers. You own this pool of apartments, so your costs are always predictable and under control.

An extended apartment pool. If there is a short-term increase in the number of relocations, our extended pool of apartments is the fast and flexible solution you need. They are all-inclusive rentals that include a price markup to cover the risk of vacancy and servicing solutions as well as short notice availability. However, they offer you the peace of mind of always having a housing solution when you need it. More importantly, they help you avoid vacancies in your core pool and keep your costs predictable.

Are you ready to switch to an easy corporate housing solution for short term transferees? Get in touch to find out how CAM can help.

Source and furnish your apartments with Packimpex

Sound corporate apartment management can reduce the cost of extended hotel stays by up to 70%. Hotel solutions lack the comfort of a temporary home; a corporate apartment provides a win-win solution for the transferee and the employer.

Neutrality: We source apartments based on your requirements to create a customised apartment pool. We work independently with a range of local real estate agencies and landlords.

Flexibility: Your first long-term business traveller can stay in your furnished company apartments within two weeks of our first contact. If you ever want to change your management provider, you can continue using your apartment pool.

Established processes & infrastructure: Packimpex has well established processes and cutting-edge IT systems to set up apartment pools in a short timeframe. You don’t have to spend time setting up an expensive in-house operation.

Rental furniture: We work closely with rental furniture providers, which gives us immediate access to quality furniture.

Freedom from increases in rent: Thanks to fixed rental contracts, your corporate apartments are unaffected by increases in rent prices caused by higher demand for living space.

Packimpex helps keep expenses low

It is our aim to keep your costs as low as possible while helping you offer your relocating employees a comfortable place to stay while they are on assignment in another country. We do this by keeping services in-house and reviewing expenses to ensure you save money.

Cost controlling & benchmarking: We continually monitor and challenge the occurring costs and benchmark them based on our extensive database. This ensures you pay fair and accurate prices for the services you use.

Purchasing power: We purchase large quantities of services and take advantage of our purchasing power to keep prices low and save money.

Cost checking: We avoid accepting costs that you would have to bear.

Expense monitoring: All expenses can be monitored online and in real-time. Data can be exported into Excel and analysed by our customers at any time. We work on a fully transparent basis.

Consolidate bills and access transparent reports

A furnished apartment that is handed over four times a year generates approximately 100 invoices. As your corporate housing partner, Packimpex can process, control and re-bill these expenses according to your requirements at a competitive, transparent rate.

Collective re-billing: We process all payments and re-bill them to you as a compressed invoice, which simplifies the payment process and reduces the number of individual bills you have to pay.

Cost breakdown: We adapt our invoicing to meet your specific requirements by re-billing costs to your different cost units.

Powerful reporting: Our state-of-the-art IT infrastructure enables us to report any costs and expenditures relating to your relocation in order to ensure proper cost tracking

Transparent pricing: We follow an open-book policy with full audit transparency. Based on your needs, we offer an all-in-one flat rate per apartment or one-to-one re-billing with a flat service fee to ensure predictable and steady costs, and to minimise vacancy costs.

Packimpex has partnered with European rental furniture providers that can deliver rental furniture to every city in most European countries within 4 working days. This rental furniture solution can reduce relocation expenses by helping your transferee avoid long hotel stays and the high prices of furnished accommodation.