Relocation stays in Liverpool
Relocation accommodation in Liverpool
Somewhere proper to live in Liverpool 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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool on that basis: everything furnished, every bill included, no referencing and no deposit scheme, and you extend or leave when you are ready. Liverpool is the largest of the cities we run properties in, and the centre is compact enough that a central base reaches the commercial district, the waterfront and the Knowledge Quarter on foot.
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 Liverpool.
The south is where most people land
Aigburth, Sefton Park, Mossley Hill and Allerton are the default answer for good reasons: parks, Victorian and Edwardian housing, independent shops along Lark Lane and Allerton Road, and a straight run into town. Woolton and Childwall are quieter and more suburban again. It is the most expensive part of the city to buy or rent in, and it is where most new arrivals end up after six months of looking.
The coast, the Wirral and the river
Crosby, Waterloo and Formby run north along the coast with beaches, pinewoods and a fast train in. The Wirral is across the water, and West Kirby, Hoylake and Heswall are genuinely attractive places to live. The river is the thing newcomers misjudge. Five miles on a map can mean a tunnel toll and a queue, or a train under the Mersey, and the two are not the same journey at all.
Merseyrail is the real map
For a commuter, Liverpool's geography is not distance, it is whether you are near a Merseyrail station. The network is fast, frequent and mostly reliable, but it only goes where it goes. Somewhere two miles out with a station on the line beats somewhere a mile out without one. Look at the line before you look at the street, and check what time the last train home actually leaves.
What the centre is and is not
The centre is flats rather than houses, and it is lively in a way that reads as a feature at twenty five and a problem at forty. North Liverpool is cheaper and improving unevenly, street by street. The student belt around Smithdown Road changes character between term time and summer. None of that is a warning, it is simply what a property search cannot show you.
The north and east, honestly
Anfield, Walton, Kirkdale, Norris Green and Old Swan are considerably cheaper, and they vary street by street rather than district by district, which is why blanket opinions about them are usually wrong. Further out, Huyton and Prescot are in Knowsley and have had real money spent on them. If you are buying rather than renting, this is where people find they can afford a house instead of a flat.
Walk the street before you commit
Liverpool does not sort itself neatly into good and bad areas. One road can be quiet and well kept and the next one along quite different, and reputations here tend to run about twenty years behind reality in both directions. Whatever you are told, go and stand on the street at eight in the morning and again at ten at night. That hour will tell you most of it.
What your money buys here
Coming from London or the south east, the first surprise is space. A budget that took a flat there takes a house with rooms in it here, and the same holds against Manchester, if less dramatically. The second surprise is how wide the range is over very short distances. Two miles can change the price of a family house substantially, and the cheaper side is not always the worse one.
The first few months socially
Liverpool is a city people are from rather than a city people pass through. The networks are older and family shaped, and plenty of them run through work, football or the street somebody grew up on. For a new arrival that means the first invitations come from colleagues rather than neighbours, and that picking a side in the football is the quickest shortcut anyone will offer you.
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 Liverpool 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.
Liverpool questions
What people ask about staying in Liverpool.
Which part of Liverpool should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the city centre, the Baltic Triangle, the Georgian Quarter and the waterfront. 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 Liverpool?
Parking in the centre is paid and mostly multi-storey, and the residential streets around the Georgian Quarter are permit zones. If you are driving daily, ask about the specific property before you book rather than assuming, because it varies street by street here more than it does in a purpose built block.
How easy is it to get around Liverpool without a car?
Lime Street puts Manchester at thirty five minutes and London at just over two hours, and the airport is twenty minutes by car.
What is there to do in Liverpool on a day off?
The waterfront, the two cathedrals, the Baltic Triangle and the Georgian Quarter are all walkable from a central base, and the Wirral, Crosby beach and Formby are half an hour out. Liverpool is an easy city to have a day off in, which matters more on a long stay than people expect.
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