Accommodation is one of the main concerns for people visiting Australia. Whether you are a visitor, student, a recent immigrant you definitely need accommodation and since it is one of the main expenses you need to know your choices.
There are different types of accommodation available in addition to rental accommodation in Australia.Home stay, share accommodation are some kind of short term facilities which are cheap and good starters.
Home stay is all about experiencing the Australian lifestyle.
Its basically you get to stay with families, in their homes and feel like home in a different country.
It’s a great way to assimilate to the new country until you feel comfortable
You make great friends and can learn a lot from their experiences.
Home stay is for all type of visitors to Australia who can stay short term or long term. Indian connection offers home stay in Sydney for short term purposes but can help you find long term home stay if you are interested. Benefits of home stay with Indian connection are
We pick you up from Airport-Just 15 min from Airport
You feel like home
Home made food according to your tastes
Separate room for your privacy with Internet connection
Free calling to India
Site seeing planning if you are transiting in Sydney
Always ask for terms and conditions from your Home stay
Share accommodation or flatmates or house share is another type of housing option.
Where you share everything electricity bill, water bills, gas cooking, share the rent and off course if you are using their utensils, refrigerator ,furniture you got to pay a bit for that too. The cost of share accommodation is obviously more then Home stay but definitely less then having your own rental property, which could be hard since you are new to country and real-estate agent might ask for referrals or huge security money.
Best website to find share accommodation would beGumtreeand Localnote
Students can always find share accommodation notices on their University notice board or other wise post one.
Benefits of share accommodation is that you pretty much get a well furnished house on lower costs, you make new friends and learn from new cultures.
Rent-sharing the rent with others not only cut costs but allows to afford larger and appealing housing options
Bills due to sharing the living area, the cost of lighting,cooling,heating is much cheaper if shared with others
Furniture/Possession
If you are just starting out, it often helps to share the cost of furnishing and equipping a house with appliances
Shared chores and responsibilities, an share households duties
Always ask for terms and conditions from your Share Accommodation
Rental accommodation is available in Australia
Generally most of the rental properties are advertised in Realestae,Domain
Rental properties are looked after by rental agents so once finding the appropriate rental accommodation you need to call the rental agent to book an appointment to see the property. Inspect it thoroughly and if u like it you would need to pay a rental bond which is refundable depending upon the condition of the property when you leave. Department of Fair trading has a list for rentals worth looking at.
In the end costing of rental properties are dependent upon their proximity to the Central Business District(City).So if a suburb is close to CBD you would pay high rental for a particular type of accommodation as compared to one which is bit far.
Always ask for terms and conditions from your Rental Agent.
Contact us if you have any questions and we endeavour to answer them in 24 hours.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteMe and my husband are moving to Sydney in a few weeks and we are fortunate to have come across this blog. We dont really have any friends/relatives in the city so hopefully you can give us some advice/tips regarding what all we should keep in mind while we prepare for the relocation. Our prime concern at the moent is to find a good place to rent, you mentioned Campsie being a good suburb with sizable indian population...what are the reliable sites where we can look for good rental property? How easy would it be for us to get mobile and internet connections as we will need them as soon as possible.. What things should we be carrying with us from India and how much should we expect the living expenses to be per month.. Lots of questions! :) We will be grateful for any advice you can provide to us...as you have rightly said that relocating to a new place can be a very nervous experience. Looking forward to hearing from you..thanks!
HI there please see my response your questions.
ReplyDeleteQ1.what are the reliable sites where we can look for good rentalproperty.
A1.www.realestate.com.au.
Q2.How easy would it be for us to get mobile and internet connections as we will need them as soon as possible.
A2.You can get mobile and wireless internet pretty quickly.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions