Corporate Housing UK
Furnished flats and houses for staff on secondments, project placements and long business trips
Overnightly finds, books and manages furnished homes for companies sending staff to work away from base, anywhere in the UK. Your company gets one monthly bill, your people stop filing hotel expense claims, and everyone gets a proper kitchen, a sofa and room to work.
What Is Corporate Housing?
In short: a furnished, serviced home that your company rents for someone on a temporary assignment. Compared with a hotel room, your people get a kitchen, a separate living space and somewhere to wash their clothes, on terms that follow the length of the job.
You will also hear it called corporate apartments, business serviced apartments or extended-stay accommodation. They all mean the same thing: a furnished home run by a provider, with the bill going to the company each month.
Once a stay runs past a month, it is usually the better choice for staff wellbeing and for the budget. Companies typically spend 30 to 45% less than on hotels once you count the meals people cook for themselves instead of claiming.
Who it suits best:
Corporate Housing or a Business Hotel?
| Factor | Corporate Housing | Business Hotel |
|---|---|---|
| One person for a month | From £800/month | £1,500+/month |
| Kitchen facilities | Fully equipped kitchen | No kitchen, so every meal is bought |
| Living space | Lounge separate from the bedroom | One room |
| Laundry | Washer in the home or the building | Paid hotel laundry |
| Booking flexibility | Rolls monthly, simple to extend | Booked and priced night by night |
| Company billing | One monthly invoice | A separate bill per guest |
| Parking | Free at most of our homes | Often charged at £15–25/day |
What Your Corporate Housing Rate Covers
Fully Furnished
- Bedroom with quality bed and storage
- Lounge with a sofa and a TV
- Desk and workspace
- Plates, pans and cutlery
All Bills Included
- Gas, electricity and water
- High-speed broadband
- Council tax on stays of up to 6 months
- TV licence where one is needed
Services Included
- A clean every week
- Fresh bedding and towels
- Repairs help out of hours
- Named account manager
Simple Billing
- Single monthly invoice
- Agreement in the company's name
- Broken down property by property
- VAT invoice for reclaim
What Corporate Housing Costs
From
£800
per month, one person
A single-occupancy apartment with every bill, broadband, cleaning and company billing included.
What moves the price
- The city: London and the South East cost more than the Midlands and the North
- The property: a studio or 1-bed costs less than a larger flat or house
- Team size: sharing a house brings the cost per person down
- Length of stay: monthly pricing starts from night 28
Prices include gas, electricity, water, broadband and a weekly clean, with a VAT invoice for reclaim. Stays start at 7 nights, and monthly pricing applies from night 28.
Housing five or more people? Group pricing usually brings the monthly rate per person down by 10 to 20%. based on your specific headcount and locations.
Housing Overseas Teams in the UK
Plenty of the companies we house are based outside the UK and are sending teams here for a project. Firms from Europe, the US and the Middle East use us so they do not have to deal with the UK rental market from abroad.
What overseas clients usually ask us for:
- Billing to your UK entity, with no individual tenancies for staff to sign
- VAT invoices your finance team can reclaim against
- A proper desk and fast broadband in every home
- Homes near major airports for staff who fly in and out
- One agreement covering every UK city you send people to
- A local guide for each home covering transport and nearby services
- Room to leave early if an assignment is cut short
How UK Corporate Housing Tax Works
When someone is sent to a temporary workplace and their employer books and pays for the accommodation, HMRC does not usually treat it as a taxable benefit in kind.
It normally applies when:
- The posting is expected to end within 24 months
- The stay is needed for the job, not chosen for personal reasons
- The employee keeps a permanent home somewhere else
- The company books and pays the provider directly
A general summary, not tax advice. Check your own position with your accountant.
VAT on Corporate Housing
Every booking comes with a VAT invoice. If your business is VAT-registered and the stay is for work, the VAT on staff accommodation can usually be reclaimed. Invoices are itemised by property, so your accounts team can match each cost to a project.
Corporate Housing FAQ
Corporate housing is a furnished home that a company books for staff working away from base, usually for weeks or months at a time. Bills, broadband and cleaning sit inside one rate, and the invoice goes to the company rather than the employee. You may also see it called corporate apartments, business serviced apartments or extended-stay accommodation.
A normal let is usually unfurnished, ties you into a 6 to 12 month tenancy and leaves bills and cleaning to the tenant. A corporate let is ready to live in on day one, from bedding to broadband, and its length follows the assignment rather than a fixed tenancy.
Yes. We place single employees and teams of 100 or more. Every property sits under one company agreement and shows up on one monthly invoice.
Stays start at 7 nights. From 28 nights a monthly rate applies, which works out 20 to 30% cheaper than paying night by night. For anything longer than a month, a corporate let nearly always costs less than a hotel.
Generally, yes. Accommodation a company books for staff working away from their normal workplace counts as a business expense for corporation tax, and VAT-registered companies can usually reclaim the VAT as well. Your accountant can confirm how it applies to your business.
We cover 175+ UK cities, from London, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds to Glasgow, Cardiff, Sheffield and Nottingham. We search around your actual office or project site rather than defaulting to the city centre.
Standard turnaround is one working day from enquiry to shortlist. For urgent requirements, we have arranged corporate accommodation and had keys in hand within hours. If you know your dates in advance, booking 2-4 weeks ahead gives the widest choice of properties.
Yes. Overseas companies sending people to UK projects are a regular part of our work. We take care of the parts that are hard to arrange from abroad, such as broadband, utilities and local information, and bill everything to your UK entity.
Extensions are normally confirmed within 24 hours. Leaving early or cutting numbers is agreed case by case, because projects move and our agreements allow for it. Your account manager will find the option that costs you least, with no penalty wherever we can avoid one.
From Enquiry to Keys in Three Steps
Three steps from enquiry to keys. No agent fees and no sourcing charges.
Tell us the brief
Give us the headcount, the site or office postcode, your start date and roughly how long the job runs. Mention parking, shift patterns and whether people need their own room or can share.
Pick from a shortlist
Usually by the next working day you get a shortlist of flats and houses near the site, each with photos, the room layout, the distance to site and one all-in price. Nothing is added later.
We run the stay
After move-in, one account manager handles every change: extending, adding a room or scaling down takes a single call. Billing arrives as a single invoice each month, addressed to the company.
Which Industries Use Corporate Housing
We provide corporate rental services to companies across multiple sectors. Each industry has different requirements and we tailor our service accordingly.
Construction
Flats and houses for site managers, engineers and build teams staying for the length of a project.
Rail and Transport
Homes close to depots and stations for signalling, track and electrification crews.
Energy and Utilities
Housing for crews working on power, wind and grid network projects.
Healthcare
Furnished homes for agency nurses, locum doctors and teams building or refitting hospitals.
Events and Production
Short stays for event build crews, AV technicians and production teams.
All Industries
View all the sectors we serve and how we tailor corporate housing for each.
Corporate Accommodation in Practice
Every company's requirements are different. Here's how corporate rental services work for typical scenarios we handle every week.
Construction firm housing 25 engineers in Manchester
A Tier 1 contractor needed corporate apartments for 25 site engineers on a 14-month infrastructure project near Manchester Piccadilly. We sourced a mix of 2-bed and 3-bed apartments within 15 minutes of the site, all on one company agreement. Monthly cost: roughly 40% less than the hotel they had been using, with full kitchens reducing subsistence claims by another £350 per person per month.
Consulting firm rotating staff through London quarterly
A Big Four firm needed ongoing corporate accommodation in London for teams rotating every 3 months. We set up a standing arrangement for 8 apartments in Zone 2, each sleeping 2. No re-sourcing each quarter, consistent quality, and one rolling invoice. Total annual saving versus their previous hotel arrangement: over £120,000.
Rail contractor with 60 track workers across 3 UK depots
A signalling company needed corporate housing near depots in Doncaster, Crewe, and Reading. Different team sizes at each location, staggered start dates, and some night-shift workers needing daytime quiet. We matched properties to each depot's requirements and handled all three locations on a single consolidated invoice.
NHS trust placing 12 agency nurses for winter surge
A hospital trust in Birmingham needed furnished corporate apartments for 12 agency nurses over a 4-month winter period. Properties needed to be within walking distance or a short bus ride from the hospital. We placed all 12 within 10 days, each in a self-contained studio or 1-bed flat with all bills included.
Trusted by teams across the UK
Companies using Overnightly save an average of 8 hours per booking.
I have been working with Overnightly for the last 2 months and have found them very professional. I've been engaging with Tracey and Ellie and both have answered any questions I had about guests and their requirements. It's a pleasure working with them and I'm sure we will continue to work more on future projects.
We've been using Overnightly to support our employees working away from home, and the service has been outstanding throughout. All properties provided have been of a consistently high standard, clean, comfortable, and well-equipped. A special mention goes to Tracey, who has been incredibly accommodating and responsive. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend Overnightly to any business looking for reliable, high-quality accommodation for their workforce.
Corporate Housing vs Hotels vs Airbnb
Companies typically weigh three options for employee accommodation. Here's a direct comparison based on a team of 10 people staying 3 months in a mid-size UK city.
Corporate Housing
- Total cost: ~£45,000 (10 people × 3 months)
- Full kitchens cut meal costs by £350/person/month
- One monthly invoice to accounts dept
- Dedicated account manager for changes
- Professional cleaning and maintenance included
- Flexible extensions or early departures
- Parking free at most of our homes
Business Hotel
- Total cost: ~£81,000 (10 people × 3 months)
- No kitchen, eat out or room service daily
- 10 separate folios to process monthly
- Rate changes at short notice
- Housekeeping included but no laundry
- Rigid booking, penalties for changes
- Parking often £15–25/day extra
Airbnb / Short Lets
- Total cost: ~£54,000 (varies wildly)
- Kitchen available but quality inconsistent
- Individual bookings, no company billing
- No account manager, deal with each host
- Cleaning varies, no maintenance guarantee
- Maximum 90 nights in London (Airbnb rules)
- No VAT invoice for reclaim
Costs are estimates based on a mid-size city (e.g., Nottingham, Leeds, Bristol). London and Southeast costs will be higher across all three options. Corporate accommodation services consistently offer the best value for stays of 2+ weeks.
Why Companies Choose Overnightly for Corporate Accommodation
We're not an agency that disappears after booking. Overnightly is a corporate lodging agency that manages accommodation end-to-end, from initial sourcing to final checkout.
175+ UK cities covered
One supplier for all your locations. Whether your teams are in London, Aberdeen, or Plymouth, we source and manage everything centrally.
One invoice, all locations
All properties consolidated on a single monthly invoice. No chasing individual hotel receipts. VAT invoice provided for reclaim.
Named account manager
Your account manager knows your team, your project timeline, and your preferences. No call centres, no ticket queues.
Same-day response
Enquiry to shortlist within one working day. For urgent placements, we've sourced and confirmed corporate apartments within hours.
No sourcing fees
Our rates include everything. No agency fees, no finder's fees, no admin charges on top of the accommodation cost.
Flexible by design
Extend stays, add rooms, reduce capacity, or move locations mid-project. Corporate accommodation services that flex with your business.
Corporate Housing Locations Across the UK
We cover every major UK city. These are the ones companies ask for most:
Book Corporate Housing for Your Team
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