Relocation services in Vietnam for assignees, families and mobility teams
Arriving in Vietnam is less a question of logistics than of sequence. A district chosen before anyone has seen the morning commute, a school application filed after the year group has closed — neither looks dramatic on the day, and both take months to undo. Asia Relocation Vietnam handles the destination side of the move, with its own consultants in the cities themselves.
A move into Vietnam is rarely difficult because of any single step. It is difficult because the steps have an order, and the order is not obvious from outside the country. A district gets chosen from photographs rather than from the commute at eight in the morning. A school is approached once the housing is fixed, which is the wrong way round more often than not. A lease is agreed on terms nobody wrote down. None of it is dramatic at the time; all of it is expensive to correct later.
Asia Relocation Vietnam takes the destination side of that sequence — housing, schooling, orientation, workspace and the everyday setup — and runs it with our own consultants, in the cities themselves. The structure is deliberately kept in-house. That is an operational choice before it is a commercial one: it gives us control over the timeline, and it gives an HR manager and an arriving family a single point of responsibility rather than a chain of intermediaries each explaining the previous one. Our consultants work in English, French and Vietnamese, which counts for little at a viewing and for a great deal when a document has to be read line by line.
What we have seen on the ground is consistent enough to be worth stating plainly: relocation to this country rewards preparation and punishes improvisation, in that order. The decisions that cost the most are taken before arrival, by people who have not yet stood in the place they are deciding about. So we front-load the work — an assessment of what the household and the assignment actually require, a shortlist built against it, then viewings, school visits and paperwork in a sequence that has been thought through rather than reacted to. It is unglamorous, and it is the entire point. Discipline is not a slogan here; it is what the country asks of anyone moving into it.
Relocation also rarely arrives on its own. The lease has to line up with the work authorisation, and the household's arrival with the move-in date. Our Vietnam visa & immigration and moving teams sit inside the same country office, which is what makes one point of accountability a working arrangement rather than a claim. If your programme runs across more than one country, our regional relocation overview for Southeast Asia is the wider view.
Eight services, and every one of them ours
Take the full scope or only the parts that matter for this arrival. Each service is quoted separately, and each is delivered by consultants who live where the work happens.
Home Search
Stock, districts and prices move quickly enough in Vietnam that advice a year old is worth rechecking before anyone acts on it. Our shortlist comes from our own network rather than from the listings you have already scrolled through, and the consultant who views with you is the one who negotiates for you.
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Temporary Housing
Furnished apartments, serviced residences and hotels we place people in regularly — so the household has a real address from the first night, and the permanent search never has to be made under time pressure.
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Office Search
Corporate requirements in Vietnam do not stop at the two large cities: we also source in the emerging business hubs, Binh Duong and Hai Phong included. Serviced offices, desks or a conventional corporate lease, with the terms read before signature.
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School Search
The shortlist changes with the city. Alongside the IB, British and American schools, Hanoi also has French, Japanese and Singaporean national-system establishments within reach, which gives a family a shortlist the south simply does not have.
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City Orientation
How the city is genuinely used, as opposed to how it is described: which routes work at which hours, where the clinics are, and the small procedures that take a local ten minutes and a newcomer an afternoon.
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Cross-Cultural Training
What a Vietnamese office expects and what a Vietnamese neighbourhood assumes, worked through on situations you are going to meet rather than on a slide deck. For the employee, and for whoever arrived with them.
Language Training
Vietnamese or English, built around what you will actually have to say this month — the landlord, the school gate, the pharmacy — rather than around a syllabus that insists on starting at chapter one.
Car Leasing
An assignment that may be extended or cut short at short notice is a poor reason to own a car. A lease keeps insurance and maintenance with the lessor, and ends when the posting does.
Who arrives, and what their first month looks like
On paper the service is the same. In practice what changes is who decides, what the deadline is attached to, and who has to be reported to at the end of the month.
Executives on assignment
Senior staff arriving with a multinational usually have the shortest lead time and the least room to be wrong. The address is decided by the commute and the school run rather than by the listing photographs, and the lease has to survive an assignment that may be extended, or cut short, without warning.
Families arriving privately
Families moving without a corporate programme behind them carry the whole decision themselves, and schooling drives everything else: the shortlist, the district, often the budget. We start there and let the housing follow — the reverse order is the single most common reason a first year goes badly.
HR and global-mobility teams
Mobility managers need policy respected, costs scoped in advance, and progress they can report without chasing it. The same applies to companies establishing themselves here — start-ups, smaller firms and established groups alike — where the workspace and the first employees usually land on one timeline.
Diplomatic and international-organisation postings
Postings that arrive on fixed terms, with their own approval chains and their own documentation requirements. What they need from us is a documented process and one named contact, not a flexibility we would not be able to justify afterwards.
Three cities, and the honest edge of the map
Our consultants live in the cities they advise on, which is why the advice is about a district rather than about a country. Coverage is not uniform, and we would rather say where it runs deep than imply it runs everywhere.
Ho Chi Minh City
Where most assignments land, and where the choice of district decides the commute, the school run and how the first year feels. District 1, District 2 and District 7 are among those our consultants work across daily. Both home search and temporary housing are run here by the same team, which is why a bridging apartment and a permanent lease are never negotiated by two people who have not spoken.
Hanoi
The capital has its own rental market and its own educational landscape. Alongside the International Baccalaureate, British and American curricula, families here also have French, Japanese and Singaporean national-system schools within reach — a genuinely different shortlist from the one further south. School search and city orientation both run in Hanoi.
Da Nang
Da Nang is covered for temporary housing, office search and city orientation — it is named on each of those service pages, not added here for effect. Settling-in support in Da Nang is scoped against what that market actually holds, which is a different exercise from the two larger cities, and we say so at the quote stage rather than after the search has started.
Binh Duong, Hai Phong and beyond
For corporate clients, office search extends to emerging business hubs such as Binh Duong and Hai Phong. Outside the three named cities we work by exception, and we tell you that before you commission anything: sending a consultant who does not know the area would serve nobody, least of all the person waiting for an answer.
Resident, in-house, and accountable to one name
One structure, not a chain
Our operation here is run entirely in-house. It gives us control over the timeline, and it gives you one point of responsibility instead of a supplier explaining what another supplier did last week.
Consultants in the cities
Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang. The person advising you on a district is the person who lives in it, not a coordination desk in another country reading the same listings you can.
Three working languages
English, French and Vietnamese. Documents are read in the language they were drawn up in, and nothing that matters ends up resting on somebody's summary of it.
Fixed-scope pricing
You approve the services and the cost before anything begins. Nothing open-ended, and a service you do not need is not quoted just because it appears on the list.
Preparation over improvisation
The work that decides a good arrival is done before it happens. We would rather spend a week on the assessment than three months undoing a lease signed at the second viewing.
We stay past the keys
Bank accounts, SIM cards, local registration, and the questions that only surface in the third week. The consultant who ran the search is the one who answers them.
From assessment to move-day supervision
Assessment
Districts, budget, commute, school constraints, the length of the assignment, and who else is arriving. We come back with what the move actually requires — including, where it applies, the services we think you can leave out.
Scoped proposal
A written scope with fixed pricing service by service, the order in which they will run, and the steps that depend on a third party named as such. You approve it before anything starts.
Shortlist, viewings and the Letter of Intent
A curated list drawn from our own network, accompanied viewings where the consultant gives you the objective view rather than the agent's, then the Letter of Intent that puts your terms to the owner in writing — and the negotiation that follows it.
Move-day supervision, then settling in
We oversee the final contract, the utility connections and the paperwork set out in the Letter of Intent. Then orientation, registration, and a consultant on call through the weeks when the real questions arrive.
Vietnam relocation FAQ
Do you work outside Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi?
What is a Letter of Intent, and why does it come before the lease?
How early should we start if a school place matters?
Which languages do your consultants work in?
We are a company, not a family. Can you handle the workspace as well as the people?
What still needs doing in the first month after move-in?
Our start date depends on immigration. How do you plan around that?
Do we have to take the whole package?
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Give us the date, who is coming, and what is already fixed — a school, a workspace, a district, a start date that will not move. We come back with the sequence, a written scope, and a straight answer on the parts you can handle yourself. Asia Relocation Vietnam would rather quote three services you need than eight you do not.
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