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HCR Ltd Achieves Prestigious JOSCAR Accreditation
HCR Ltd is proud to announce its successful accreditation by the Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register (JOSCAR), a mark of excellence that affirms our commitment to quality, compliance, and trustworthiness in the Aerospace, Defence, Security, and Space sectors....
UK Rental Property Scam warning
Renter Beware Most assignees to the UK will rent their accommodation. It is understandable. They are here for a limited period of time and the vast majority will return to their home country. Some assignees will be supported by a professional employee relocation...
HCR’s Specialist Property division
Property Management for Councils & Local Authorities HCR’s ‘hidden’ division Many of our clients are unaware that HCR has a specialist property management division. Over the last 4 years, HCR has been managing a local authority’s temporary accommodation and...
Relocation balances teams and creates equal opportunity
Balanced teams, equal opportunity. An opinion piece by Adrian Leach In my working career I witnessed first hand how firms will recruit new staff rather than promote from within and even pay them more than existing staff doing the same job. A strategy that I always...
MYTAS Accommodation – a new way to rent property for projects
The need for cost certainty on accommodation In a world of tight margins and the need for accurate cost estimates, project leaders need assurances that their personnel accommodation costs are not going to over-run and can be easily attributable to individuals for tax...
Live closer to Work
The new mantra - Working from Home Post the pandemic the perceived wisdom was that Working From Home was here to stay. We even had a new acronym for our calendars – WFH. Flexible working was THE management mantra adopted by CEOs. Large expensive group offices were...
Global Shipping Update – Household Goods June 2024
Current State There is generally good news in the market, which is very welcome, but with the appreciation that the market may change quite quickly. Diversions around the Cape of Good Hope are now well established with the Suez Canal still not offering safe passage...
Dropping In from North America?
Thanks for dropping in… If you’re on this page the chances are you came here via the hyperlink on the email I sent you and you want to know two things. Number 1 is how did we know someone in your organisation was searching on key terms like Relocation and Global...
Customisable UK Residential Data from HCR
As a leading independent UK Relocation company, HCR can provide powerful UK residential property and area data for our clients. We utilise a cutting-edge technology platform to access a vast range of dataset on UK residential property to give unprecedented insights...
Shipping avoiding the Suez Canal – January 2024
An update from our Shipping partners - Pickfords Move Management 9th January 2024 Shipping Delays and Additional Costs Due to the attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, shipping lines have in general made the decision to avoid the Suez Canal and the Red Sea and instead...
Is the UK Rental Market impacting successful employee relocation in the UK?
The UK Private Rental Market (PRS) has seen the available letting stock fall by 39% in just three years. January 2023 The numbers are significant; available letting stock in December 2019 was 328,412 properties and by December 2022 it had fallen to 199,725 ...
Some GOOD NEWS for the UK
The UK is in the top three countries of the world to invest in according to PwC’s 26th annual Global CEO Survey. Only 9% of CEOs selected the UK as a market to grow revenue in 2020, compared with 18% who selected the UK this year. The survey is based on responses from...
Plan & Prepare in a VUCA world
A phrase coined in the late 80’s by the US Army, VUCA has become a trendy managerial acronym, being short for, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. In some quarters VUCA has just become a catchall description for a world that is in constant change, but...
UK Renting – Renewals, Right to Rent and Carbon Monoxide alarms August 2022
Rent Renewals When we negotiate a Tenancy Agreement for our assignees, we also seek to cap and rent renewal at 5% or RPI which ever is the lower. However, with the RPI at 12.3% we are seeing many landlords, or their Managing Agents, simply ignore the cap and apply the...
August 2022 – Priority Visas are Back
Priority and Super Priority Visas are back UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) has re-introduced priority and super-priority visa applications after they were suspended whilst UKVI dealt with Ukraine visas, although initial volumes have been capped whilst they cope with...
August 2022 – UK Housing Market update
UK Housing Market – Crash, Gentle Fall or No Change? The jury is still out on the impact the high rate of inflation and cost of living crisis will have on the UK housing market. Couple this with the increased Bank of England Base rate to 1.75% and you could be...
August 2022 The Shipping Market
Current Shipping Conditions - August 2022 As we go to print, the Port of Felixstowe has announced its workers are going on stroke for 8 days from 21st August 2022. Felixstowe is responsible for 48% of UK container freight and the disruption has been calculated at...
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year from everyone at HCR Group
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Immigration Insights – Winter 2021
Our immigration partners, Smith Stone Walters have published their Winter 2021 Insight magazine. It provides a great look at what is in store for the UK in 2022 as the Home Office seeks to implement its vision for the UK's borders and immigration system for the...
Serviced Accommodation – market review December 2021
Demand outstrips supply As Q1 2021 ended there was a surge of optimism that business could once again get moving and one of the beneficiaries of this travel increase was Serviced Accommodation. During 2020 some serviced accommodation operators ceased trading or...
Shipping Market Update December 2021
Adrian Leach - 19th December 2021 Whilst many of us thought that 2021 shipping rate hikes were exorbitant, when compared with 2019, it is obvious that 2022 might be even worse. The British Association of Removers (BAR) December 2021 update is quite clear: during 2021...
Household Goods Moving October 2021 Update
As our post in September informed readers, there is significant disruption to the global shipping lines services. What we are seeing now is substantial port congestion in the UK and at other global transhipment ports which is severely impacting container movements....
The UK Energy Crisis – what’s happening?
200% wholesale price increase If you are living and working in the UK you will know that wholesale energy prices have risen 200% during the first 9 months of 2021 due to a variety of Europe-wide factors. The consequence of this is that energy providers have pulled...
UK Education Update October 2021
The following information is provided by our UK Education and Schools specialist, Nathaniel Price. School visits Most schools are now open to parents visiting again, though there are some restrictions on times available and Covid-19 precautions are often still in...
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