Housing one person in a new city is a booking. Housing a team is logistics, and it goes wrong in predictable ways: apartments scattered across the wrong neighbourhoods, a different invoice for every head, and one relocation manager holding a spreadsheet that grows teeth. It does not have to. We move groups into Athens for companies regularly, from a handful of engineers to whole departments, and the method is boring on purpose.
Boring, here, is the compliment. A good group move is one nobody remembers because nothing caught fire.
Cluster by neighbourhood, not by luck
The first decision is where, and the mistake is to solve it apartment by apartment. Teams work better when they are housed near each other and near the office, so we start from the neighbourhood and work in. If the office is central, that might mean the Hilton area or Pagrati; if it is north, Marousi keeps everyone on the same metro line. Our neighbourhood guide is the same one we use to place groups.
Clustering does quiet work. People who live near each other settle faster, share the load of a new city, and spend less time commuting and more time useful. It also makes our job simpler, which keeps your rate honest.
A team that lives in the same postcode becomes a team faster.
One contact, one invoice
However many people you move, you deal with one of us, not a call centre and not each apartment separately. Everyone can sit on a single monthly invoice with the documentation your finance team needs, rather than a stack of individual bookings to reconcile. No employee fronts a payment, no one files rent as an expense. The money side is designed to be dull, which for a finance team is the highest praise there is. The wider order of a company move is covered in relocating a team to Athens.
- One point of contact for the whole group, start to finish.
- A single monthly invoice, or split how your finance team prefers.
- Apartments clustered by neighbourhood and office, not scattered.
- Furnished and ready, so people work from day one.
Lead times for groups
For a single apartment we can usually be ready in 48 hours. For a group the answer is days rather than weeks, scaling with the headcount and how tightly you want them clustered. The variable is not our speed but your notice: the earlier we have dates and numbers, the more control you keep over exactly which streets people land on. Tell us late and we still house everyone; we just have less say over the postcodes.
Five people or fifty. One contact, one invoice, days not weeks.
House your team in Athens
One point of contact, one invoice, apartments clustered near your office.
