Corporate and relocation lets in Bournemouth

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A corporate let is a furnished apartment booked by a company for an employee or a team, for weeks or months, with the bills included and the invoicing done the way a finance department needs it. Flexiestays lets apartments in eight buildings in Bournemouth this way to companies, relocation agents, insurers and NHS trusts. Corporate bookings receive VAT invoices and a named account manager, and stays of 28 nights or more have no fixed end date.

Who books

• Employers housing a new starter while they find a permanent home, or a project team for the length of a contract.
• Relocation agents placing an employee who is moving to the coast and needs a furnished base on day one.
• Insurers and claims handlers housing a household whose home has been flooded or damaged by fire until the repairs are finished.
• NHS trusts and staffing agencies housing nurses, doctors and locums on rotation at the Royal Bournemouth and Poole hospitals.
• Universities housing visiting academics and researchers for a term.

Each of them needs the same thing: an apartment that works the day the person arrives, close to where they will be, with nothing for the employee to set up.

What the company gets

A named account manager. One contact who knows the bookings, the people staying and the invoicing. When a start date moves, a team grows or a stay needs extending, there is one person to call.

VAT invoicing. Invoices addressed to the company, with VAT shown, ready for your accounts.

Monthly billing. Stays of a month or more billed monthly rather than in one payment up front.

Several apartments in one building. A team housed together in one building, sharing the parking, the gym and the same arrival instructions. The Tower House Hotel on West Cliff Gardens has studios, one and two-bedroom apartments, family apartments and a penthouse; Cliff Heights and Cliff Manor have one-bedroom garden apartments and two-bedroom sea-view apartments; Pebbles, Coast and Seabreeze on St Michael's Road have studios and one-bedroom apartments with a kitchen or kitchenette.

Flexible end dates. The minimum stay is 28 nights. After that there is no fixed term: extend month by month, subject to availability, or finish when the placement ends.

What the employee gets

A furnished apartment with bed linen, towels, kitchen equipment, a washing machine, a dishwasher and a smart TV in the apartments with a kitchen. Electricity, gas, water, fibre Wi-Fi, council tax and the TV licence are included, so there are no accounts to open. Every building has free private parking, and every resident can use the gym and games room at The Shore House Hotel, open 24 hours a day. The Flexiestays team answers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Check-in is from 15:00 and check-out by 10:00.

Bournemouth itself does the rest: about 200,000 residents, two universities, an airport, seven miles of sandy beach and a direct train to London Waterloo in under two hours.

A serviced let, not a tenancy

A corporate let is a serviced let booked by a company for its staff. It is not an assured tenancy: there is no referencing of each occupant, no twelve-month contract and no tenancy deposit scheme, only a standard cleaning and security deposit. We use the right agreement for the length and purpose of each stay; long stay or tenancy explains the difference, and this is not legal advice. For an employee who will settle permanently, our tenants hub covers renting a home on a tenancy once they know which area suits them.

How to book

Send the dates, the number of people, the apartment types and whether each needs parking, and the account manager will confirm what is available and how invoicing will work. Corporate lets and relocation sets out what relocation teams usually ask, and long term lets describes the buildings and the apartments in full. The Flexiestays group also has a dedicated page for corporate housing in Bournemouth.

Where

The buildings are on the West Cliff and St Michael's Road in central Bournemouth, a short walk from the beach and the town centre and a short drive from the Royal Bournemouth Hospital and the universities. For staff working in Poole or Christchurch, long term lets in Bournemouth and in Poole show what is available nearby.

For property owners

Companies and insurers need more furnished homes than the group's buildings hold. A landlord with a furnished flat near a hospital, the Lansdowne or the airport can let it to corporate guests for stays of 28 nights or more. List your property and we will say whether it suits, and our fees page sets out the service levels. Landlords can start at the landlords hub; owners thinking of selling instead can start at the sellers hub, and companies buying for staff at the buyers hub.