Relocation stays in Derby
Relocation accommodation in Derby
Somewhere proper to live in Derby while you work out where you actually want to live. Furnished, bills included, no twelve month tenancy signed in a city you do not know yet.
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The short answer
Somewhere to land in Derby before you commit to anywhere.
Relocation accommodation is a furnished whole property taken for a month or several while you find a permanent home. It exists because the alternative is signing a twelve month tenancy on a street you have never seen, from a photograph, before the job has even started. We let whole apartments and houses in Derby on that basis: everything furnished, every bill included, no referencing and no deposit scheme, and you extend or leave when you are ready. Derby is an engineering city, so most stays here are midweek, multi-week and company paid.
Called a few different things
This gets called relocation accommodation, relocation housing, temporary accommodation, interim accommodation, a serviced apartment, a short term let, corporate relocation housing, or simply somewhere to stay while you look. Employers relocating somebody usually call it relocation accommodation and pay for a fixed number of weeks.
The mistake worth avoiding
Signing for a year in a city you have been in for four days.
Everybody who has moved for work has a version of this story: the flat that looked fine online and turned out to be the wrong side of a dual carriageway, an hour from the office, on a twelve month agreement. A month or two somewhere decent, while you actually walk the areas and do the commute in the rain, costs less than the mistake does. It suits you if:
Where you would be
Working out where you actually want to live in Derby.
Where people actually live
Derby divides fairly clearly. North of the centre, Allestree and Darley Abbey are greener and older. West, Littleover and Mickleover are steady family suburbs. Chellaston sits south east near the A50, and the centre itself is compact and more flats than families. None of that is visible on a map, and price alone will not tell you the character.
The commute here runs outwards
If the job is at Rolls-Royce, Alstom or Toyota, you are commuting out of Derby rather than into it, which reverses the usual logic. Living on the same side of the city as your site matters more than living centrally. Somebody in Allestree driving to Burnaston crosses the entire city twice a day for no good reason.
What people get wrong first
The common mistake is choosing from the map, signing for a year, then discovering the junction sitting between home and work. Markeaton Island, the A38 and the school run hour do not appear on a listing. Staying a few months first, and driving your real route at your real start time, is how people avoid a lease they resent.
The Peak District starts north
What newcomers underrate is what sits just above the city. The A6 runs up the Derwent Valley through Belper and Matlock, and the A52 heads west towards Ashbourne and the southern edge of the Peak. Plenty of people who arrived for a job at one of the engineering employers stayed in Derbyshire because of that, not because of Derby.
What your money does here
Housing money stretches further in Derby than in Nottingham or Birmingham, and that is part of why people say yes to the job. The trade is that the city is smaller and quieter than either of them. Arrive expecting a big city and you will be disappointed. Arrive wanting a short commute and hills nearby and you will probably stay.
The villages people end up in
Once people know the map properly they spread out. Duffield and Belper sit north up the A6 in the Derwent Valley. Etwall, Repton and Melbourne are south and south west, which suits anybody at Burnaston. Ashbourne is west, on the edge of the hills. Every one of them assumes a car, and every one is quieter than any part of Derby.
The first month is admin
There is no tram and no metro here, so outside the centre you will drive or learn the local bus routes. School places, a dentist and a GP all take longer to arrange than people budget for, and none of it is quick from a distance. Sorting it from a temporary base beats sorting it from something you have already committed to.
Sunny Sundays and the A515
Dovedale, Ashbourne and the Tissington Trail are the first piece of the Peak most Derby people try, and on a warm Sunday a good share of the county tries it at the same time. The A52 west and the A515 north out of Ashbourne both back up. Going early, or going midweek, is what separates a good day from a car park.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Derby stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
Message reservations rather than booking night by night. A month or more is priced differently from a run of nights, and if your employer is paying we will invoice them directly with a purchase order reference.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Derby questions
What people ask about staying in Derby.
Which part of Derby should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the city centre, the Cathedral Quarter, Pride Park and Darley Abbey. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close.
Can I park in Derby?
Derby is a driving city and most stays here need a car, because the employment sites are on the edge rather than in the middle. City centre parking is paid and the residential streets vary, so ask about the specific property if you are bringing a van or a second car.
How easy is it to get around Derby without a car?
Derby station puts Birmingham at forty minutes and London at an hour and a half, and the Peak District starts twenty minutes north.
What is there to do in Derby on a day off?
The Cathedral Quarter, Darley Abbey Mills and the Derwent Valley are on the doorstep, and the Peak District proper starts about twenty minutes north. For a city this size the countryside access is unusually good and it is most of what people end up doing on a weekend here.
Questions we get asked
What people moving here ask us.
Can my employer be invoiced?
Yes, and it is common with a relocation package. We invoice the company for the agreed number of weeks with a purchase order reference, and you extend privately after that if you need longer.
How long do people usually stay?
Six to twelve weeks is the common shape: long enough to find somewhere permanent, do the referencing and wait out a notice period. The rate improves past the first month, so tell us your best guess and we will price it for that rather than for a fortnight.
Is there a tenancy or a credit check?
No. This is a booking, not a tenancy, so there is no referencing, no guarantor and no protected deposit. That is particularly useful if you have just moved country and have no UK credit history yet, which is the thing that stops most relocations dead.
Can the family come once I have found somewhere?
Yes, and it is worth telling us at the start. Whether you need two bedrooms from week one or from week five changes which property makes sense, and moving you twice helps nobody.
Check availability
Tell us when you land.
Message reservations with your start date, how many of you there are and roughly where you will be working, and we will tell you what makes sense.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213