Global Mobility is often challenged by local HR about the housing budgets in a given location. What do you do in this case? Do you consider HR’s input and potentially adjust the housing budgets accordingly, or do you maintain the housing budgets based on the data from your provider?
The end is close for France’s highly disfavored taxe d’habitation, or residence tax. The Macron administration announced in June 2021 that, by 2023, no household will pay this tax on its main residence.
Mark Twain famously said, “buy land, they’re not making it anymore”. This rings true today as it relates to the U.S. housing market. Various reasons – local market conditions, lack of supply, robust demand from homebuyers as they take advantage of historically low interest rates, etc. – have caused a surge in home prices.
Global Mobility is often challenged by local HR about the housing budgets in a given location. What do you do in this case? Do you consider HR’s input and potentially adjust the housing budgets accordingly, or do you maintain the housing budgets based on the data from your provider?
Like many locations throughout the world, the rental market in Dubai has been chaotic since the start of the pandemic.
The island country of Barbados was not initially hit hard by the pandemic. Only in recent months has the country experienced a spike in cases, which sources believe can be contained by this summer with mass vaccinations. The sharp decrease in expatriate arrivals has begun a series of transformations within Bridgetown’s housing market.
The 2021 Monaco Grand Prix is just around the corner (pun intended). This weekend, open wheel race cars will be flying around the tight streets of Monaco at speeds of 200-300 km per hour. This event often highlights incredibly wealthy and famous people who either live in Monaco or are visiting. Which left some of us at AIRINC wondering – why is Monaco so appealing to the wealthy elites of the world?
While Haiti is considered to have a high level of COVID-19 cases and the population is doing their part by wearing masks, Port-au-Prince has been overcome with strife from political protest, violence, and burgeoning cases of kidnapping.
Talent Acquisition Managers and Recruiters are experts at selling the prospect of working at their company. There are issues that candidates consider that these companies can’t control…cost-of-living being one of them.
In recent months, several major oil companies expanded their offshore drilling operations in Guyana to include neighboring Suriname. The entry into Suriname was facilitated by the country’s shifting political climate and the economic vulnerability triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the sudden arrival of expatriates into the capital, Paramaribo, the housing market is already experiencing considerable strain.
