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Attracting and retaining tech talent is one of the biggest priorities—and challenges—facing Irish and international employers in 2025. With hybrid roles, international hiring, and remote-first strategies on the rise, companies must ensure that the relocation experience for developers, engineers, and product teams is smooth, safe, and efficient.
Whether you’re onboarding software engineers in Dublin or hiring international teams across European hubs, the right relocation partner can make or break the employee experience. In this blog, we look at the best relocation companies for tech talent, and why housing-first providers are fast becoming the go-to solution for cost-conscious tech employers.
What Makes Relocating Tech Talent Unique?
Unlike senior executives or long-term expatriates, tech professionals often:
- Move on shorter notice
- Prefer self-directed, tech-enabled relocation tools
- Expect flexible working environments
- Are often relocating solo, not with families
This means they don’t always need full-service relocation packages with cultural orientation or school searches—but they do need help securing housing in competitive urban markets, avoiding scams, and getting settled fast.
The Traditional Relocation Approach: Too Much for Too Many?
Most of the best relocation companies focus on delivering comprehensive, end-to-end services—ideal for senior hires with families but often too costly and unnecessary for the fast-paced hiring cycles of the tech sector.
Services typically include:
- Visa processing and immigration advice
- Household goods shipping
- School search and language training
- Cultural integration and tax consultation
For tech teams—especially junior and mid-level engineers—these extras rarely add value. What matters most is housing security, speed, and minimal onboarding friction.
Why Housing-First Relocation Services Are Better for Tech Teams
Companies hiring developers, data scientists, or QA testers in cities like Dublin, Amsterdam, or Berlin face a common challenge: fierce competition for housing, high rental prices, and increased risk of online rental scams.
That’s where PropSupport—and other housing-focused relocation services—come in.
Rather than offering expensive relocation bundles, we focus on helping employees secure reliable, verified housing fast. This model is ideal for:
- Engineers relocating independently
- Remote hires joining on short notice
- Tech interns or junior team members
- Startups and scale-ups with tight budgets
Top Housing Support Services for Tech Hires
At PropSupport, our housing-first relocation service includes:
- Rental search guidance with area insights
- Scam prevention and property vetting
- Lease preparation and review
- Flexible support: from digital self-service tools to full hands-on assistance
- Payment flexibility: employer-paid or employee-paid options
This allows HR teams to offer real value to relocating staff—without overcommitting time or money.
Dublin Case Study: Where Housing Trumps Everything
Dublin continues to be a tech hiring hub in Europe—but also one of the most competitive rental markets.
We’ve worked with fast-growing tech teams who found that even well-paid engineers struggled to find accommodation within a few weeks of arrival. Language barriers, time zone differences, and scam concerns only made things harder.
By offering housing-specific relocation support, these companies avoided:
- Delayed start dates due to accommodation stress
- Poor early employee experience
- Increased risk of hiring failure due to housing issues
How to Choose the Best Relocation Company for Tech Roles
When evaluating relocation partners for tech talent, HR and talent acquisition teams should ask:
- Do we need full visa/moving support, or just housing?
- Are we relocating junior or senior engineers?
- What is our budget per hire?
- Do our employees prefer tech-first, self-directed platforms?
- Do we need flexibility across different cities or countries?
In most cases, junior and mid-level tech hires benefit most from housing-first relocation support, while senior or international moves may require a blended approach.
Best Use Cases for Housing-First Relocation
Ideal for:
- Graduate tech programs
- Fast-paced product or dev teams
- Contract hires and remote onboarding
- Scaling startups with limited HR infrastructure
- Distributed teams across multiple European cities
Not ideal for:
- Senior leadership with dependents
- Employees requiring immigration support
- Long-term international assignments with complex compliance needs
Why Tech Employers Are Choosing PropSupport
PropSupport has supported relocations for Dublin-based software teams, EU-based design firms, and globally distributed tech consultancies. Our clients choose us because:
- We specialise in solving the housing problem, not selling bloated packages
- We offer fast turnaround times that match tech hiring cycles
- Our model is scalable across multiple hires and geographies
- We build confidence in early-stage relocations, which improves onboarding and retention
Final Thought: Build a Relocation Strategy That Scales with Tech Growth
You don’t need a €10,000 package to relocate a front-end engineer. What you need is safe, secure, housing support that works—and that’s exactly what PropSupport delivers.
Whether your teams are growing in Dublin, Lisbon, or KrakĂłw, PropSupport helps you provide relocation support where it matters most: at home.
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Email us at info@propsupport.com or call +353 1 529 2756 to book a discovery call or request a sample relocation support plan.
