Finding housing abroad when children set the radius

The right home is the one that makes the school and the clinic boring. Everything else is taste.

We start from the children’s week: drop-off, activities, a pediatric clinic, and a grocery that does not require a project. Budget and bedrooms come next, including a room that can become a nursery if you are still expecting.

Foreign leases fail on quiet clauses: guarantors, proof of income from another country, pets, and the number of people on the contract. Local counsel reads the lease. We make sure you are not in love with a flat you cannot sign.

Viewings are a sequence, not a holiday. Each home gets the same notes: light, noise, stairs with a stroller, water pressure, and the real walk to the school gate.

Move-in week is utilities, internet, and a locksmith, timed so the first school morning is not also the morning the internet arrives. That is housing search as we run it.