Bay City(中南海湾新城) is 5 minutes walk away from the beautiful TangDao Bay. You can easily enjoy an ocean view from your apartment if you pick a higher story. Bay City is also very close to Haidu Hotel, Mykal Plaza ,Aeon, and Bar Street which makes your life very convenient. More than 30% of the present residence are expats.
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Yinling Guoji (银领国际)is located between Bay City and Mykal. Surrounded by all types of restraunts and bars, it`s a nice area to live in.
Phoenix City (凤凰城)is 15 minutes walk away from the Golden Beach, the best beach in HuangDao and the Beer Festival. It`ll take you 15 minutes to drive from Phoenix City to Huangdao Downtown. This area has the best and biggest gym center, including gym, a huge swimming pool, in-door basketball and tennis court. If you want a good gym nearby, Phoenix City is a good choice.
Ming Jiahui (名嘉汇)is to the west of Bay City, one block away. This area is very convenient for shopping and going to restraunts. Ming Jiahui has very good property management and good security work. Most apartments in this area are finely decorated with very high standard.
Rio Carnival(海上嘉年华) is the best residential area in HuangDao, which has a huge and international shopping mall. You can easily find all types of restraunts, shops, shoe stores and enjoy the latest movies with English sound track in Jackie Chen Movie Theater. Also Carnival locates on the TangDao Bay, so you`ll have fantastic view from your apartment. The apartments in this area are well-equipped and have first class decoration.
Haier Bay(海尔山海湾) is very close to the Golden Beach and the Beer Festival. Nearby are various restraunts and small supermarkets. Haier Bay is the closest area in Huangdao to the Undersea Tunnel, thus if you want to live close to Qingdao, Haier Bay is the choice.
No, you can lease an apartment or villa in Qingdao without a residence permit or work permit,but when you apply a residence permit or work permit,you need the leasing contract for the houses.
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Where to live? This is one problem which the expat will face when moving to Qingdao, below issues need to be considered when you decide to choose the location of the apartments or villas.
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Transportation
- Will you have a car?
- Will your spouse/children need the car during the day?
- Will you drive by yourself ?
Hospitals or Clinics
- Western hospitals are good at language communication, some of the local hospitals offer high quality medical services too, you need to know the time to be the hospitals if you require an emergency service in the future.
International Schools
- Commute time for the children
- Future needs
- Shuttle buses provided or not to your apartment or villa
Office commute
- Time need
- Traffic jam or not during commute period?
Restaurants
- How often will you eat out? Are there some acceptable restaurants nearby your apartment or villa?
- Is this an important consideration for you?
The Xinhua and Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index Report (2016), co-compiled by Xinhua News Agency and Baltic Exchange has recently been issued in Shanghai. Based on the comprehensive evaluation, Qingdao has entered once more the list of international shipping centers.
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Since this year Qingdao is speeding up the construction of the international shipping service center and has successfully issued the Qingdao shipping index for the Belt and Road. Meanwhile, Qingdao has deepened the research on port shipping, finished the preliminary preparation for the research on the topic “Supply-side Reform of Port Shipping Industry and prepared to establish the Qingdao shipping think tank. In addition, the shipping big database is under construction. The big dta exchanges has been authenticated and registered, and the big data institute has been established to conduct research work and the related framework designs are under improvement for the big data center.
Rent an apartment in Qingdao requires planning, although it has had a real estate boom in recent years in Qingdao ,but there aren’t a wide range Qingdao apartments available for rent for foreigners as the decoration and furniture style are different with the requirement of expats. Rental contract of the Qingdao apartments or villas can also be confusing, so it’s best to have a Qingdao real estate agent to negotiate the deal.
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Step 1: Find a trustable local agent
You’d better choose some agents who can speak English and they should be the company, but not individual agent, as you know, the company can ensure the service to be continuous, and more trustable. Home Solutions Real Estate Co.,Ltd is the top real estate agent and relocation company in Qingdao, most employees in their company have the background of working or studying abroad, the company have worked with many MNC in Qingdao, such as BOSCH ,NESTLE, Maersk, Jones Long Lasalle etc. Many expats in Qingdao will introduce the company to you if you checked with them.
Step 2:Choose the most suitable area for living
Most of the expats will choose the east of Shinan district and Laoshan district as their home in Qingdao, the east of Shinan district is the traditional CBD of Qingdao, many choices for shopping and fun, also plenty of office space can be chosen as the office.
However ,The problem of Shinan is too crowd and headache traffic jam. Hate this? Go to Laoshan, wider road ,less people ,fresher air, with nice sea view houses, villas and apartments .The centre of Laoshan district is also convenient for life, but you’d better have a car if you chose some other area of Laoshan, specially the east area of Laoshan district. The reason is that finding a taxi there need take your time
Please also be noted that most Qingdao international schools are located in Laoshan district, you can choose there if the kids need go to international schools and don’t want to waste time on the road.
Step 3:Leasing Contract Negation
Once an apartment has been chosen, usually the rent and deposit are given directly to the landlord. If the lease contract is signed for a long period ,e.g one year, you might be get a better price. Normally the landlords in Qingdao will ask the tenant to pay the rent of one year in advance, some of them can accept the payment to be paid by half a year or there months, of course the rent price will be higher than yearly payment. Only quite few landlords in Qingdao can accept the rent to be paid by month. Of course a good agent such as Home Solutions can help you get a better and satisfied result.
Don’t forget that the contract should be written in both English and Chinese, then you can check detail about the rental items.
Step4: Others
The payment of water, gas, electricity, phone, internet, television, and heating etc for each apartment might be different, so check detail when you sign the lease..
The heating fee of some apartments have been included into the rental fee, otherwise you will have to pay it before the middle of Nov of each year. Water and gas fees are either included in the rent, or paid every two month by yourself . Tap water is not drinkable in Qingdao, so you can equip a water dispenser (can be found at many supermarkets ) for your cold drinking water. Home Solutions Real Estate can help you to do this and they will provide all the tenancy management during your stay in Qingdao.
Also please remember some essential telephone nos, e.g the Police tel in China is 110 ,Fire tel is 119 ,but not 911.You can check the relocation info of http://www.relocationtoqingdao.com for more detail.