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[lookingtotraveloverseas]

We are researching agencies and were wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for an agency that is reliable and will help with the move to Hong Kong as well as helping us find housing. Does anyone have any suggestions or can you tell us which agencies to avoid?

[dandan]

Chesterton Petty and Sallmanns Residential are a couple agencies that will help you move to Hong Kong and find accomodation. Never used them myself so I can't vouch for there reliability personally. I would imagine they're quite expensive though.

[Zero Hero]

'Dandan', I think the original poster may be referring to employment agencies who can also help with moving and housing. To that I would say that the SCMP seems to be full to the brim with agencies, though I can't say from experience whether any of them are reliable or not, and I would be surprised if any offered help with moving or housing. These are sorts of things that adults are expected to arrange for themselves.

[once again]

I have worked for a number of agencies in the past, and none of them has offered any kind of service of this kind. As Zero pointed out on another post, and many times in fact, HK is not the kind of place that will go to that kind of trouble. There are enough native English speakers here already that can be employed, without the need for such expense. There do seem to be private organisations that will offer sponsorship and housing help, but I have seen many complaints about these posted before. Perhaps you could try posting to other teaching forums to get some more advice.