The Dubai Land Department (DLD) launched the unified lease contract for rental properties in Dubai in March this year to create a transparent and professional real estate market with measurable standards.
On Tuesday, December 19, and Wednesday, December 20, 2017, the U.S. Senate and House voted “yes” to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The proposed U.S. tax reform, if approved, will have significant impact on corporate domestic relocation programs.
You’ve arranged the airplane tickets, rental home and new car for your mobile employees. But your job as a mobility manager isn’t done quite yet.
What’s your first move if an emergency situation – whether a tropical storm or a political uprising – breaks out around the corner from your home? Now imagine this is your new home – in a new city, state, or country.
Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of corporate mobile workforce solutions, today announced that it has established a wholly-owned tax subsidiary, Weichert Mobility Tax Services, Inc.
Your policy is the core of your workforce mobility program and it can dictate as much as 98% of the costs you incur. You want to control spend, especially since average domestic relocations can cost upwards of $80,000.
Life on assignment drives mobile employees’ ability to advance their careers. Providing an automobile or car allowance to enable assignees to drive themselves around their destination location is another story.
Convincing your key talent to take a move can be a tough sell when the cost of living in the destination location is higher than in the current home base area.
Relocation can be an incredibly exciting opportunity for the rising talent with your organization.
Today, we have a lot of Jetsons-style technology, literally at our fingertips. Who doesn’t love FaceTime, Google searches and the Roomba (Ok, maybe not the Roomba)?
On April 20, 2017, the Province of Ontario enacted a 15 per cent non-resident speculation tax (NRST) on the purchase or acquisition of properties in Metropolitan Toronto and its surrounding areas.
While research shows a growing number of millennials choosing to purchase homes, the majority of this demographic still prefer to rent, especially in metropolitan areas.
On November 1, 2016, China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) launched a pilot work permit program in select regions of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Anhui, Guangdong, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan and Ningxia.
Our recent two-part webinar series on cost optimization drew large corporate attendance, no doubt eager to hear their peers talk at length about their experience collaborating with Weichert to optimize program costs.
The Right to Rent scheme, which requires landlords or agents in England and Wales to check immigration status of all prospective adult renters, came into force in May 2014.
Canada is the second largest country in the world by area, but has a population of only 36 million people.
The unfortunate certainties of life are death, taxes and, in the case of corporate mobility managers, the never-ending pressure to reduce costs.
The rock band Van Halen will forever be remembered for spandex, teased hair and changing lead singers more often than most people change socks.
As one of the world’s leading workforce mobility companies, we are committed to protecting the private data of the mobile employees we move and the organizations that deploy them.
More than seven weeks have passed since the Brexit vote, and as much uncertainty exists today as on 23 June.
Singapore has been ranked #1 for both quality of life and happiest country in Asia, and that’s because the economic, political, socio-cultural environments – including healthcare, education, and transportation — are all top notch.
For the tenth annual edition of our workforce mobility survey, we took a fresh approach.
Conventional wisdom and experience dictate that saying you want to break up and actually doing it are two very different things.