Guides/Before you fly

1. 01

   Put five names at the top: occupant, employer, lease signatory, reimbursement approver and day-to-day relocation contact.

2. 02

   Set the arrival accommodation, first viewing date, target move-in, intended term and the early-exit scenario. A project end date and a school year are not always the same date.

3. 03

   Lock no more than two geographic anchors: the exact school campus or bus stop, the office entrance and arrival time, regular airport trips, or the accompanying partner’s daily needs.

4. 04

   Split the budget into monthly rent, signing-day cash and employer reimbursement. Keep deposit, advance rent, agency fee, furnishing, utilities and fapiao requirements as separate lines.

5. 05

   Separate must-haves from preferences: furnished or unfurnished, kitchen extraction, bathtub, pet, lift, parking, work-from-home room and accessibility.

6. 06

   Before a home enters the shortlist, identify the landlord or operator, whether the address can support accommodation registration, and who will handle online signing and filing.

7. 07

   Agree the evidence pack: dated condition photographs, written defects, meter readings, inventory, source and last availability check.

8. 08

   Set the decision rule. Compare like with like, require one drawback for every option, and name who may approve a budget, commute or condition trade-off. Rent and deposit go to the counterparty named in the lease, not through Home88.

Housing Send Home88 the completed brief. We can turn it into a corridor comparison and a current shortlist; availability and asking rent are checked when the shortlist is prepared, not promised in the brief.

• Corporate housing desk
• Compare corridors
• Confirm the campus
• Calculate signing-day cash

Each guide gives the official process with source links and effective dates, plus the pitfalls we have recorded from real cases. Anything requiring a licence is referred to registered providers only.