What a relocation agency costs in Belgium

Do Belgian relocation agencies publish their prices?

We found none that do. On 7 October 2026 we read the pages of six agencies and estate agents that sell services to newcomers in Belgium. None showed a price, a rate card or a fee in euros.

• Do It 4 Me: a “4 YOU +” package with a property list matched to your criteria, visits to up to 15 properties, follow-up before and after signing the lease, and utility activation. No price.
• Be Welcome: pre-arrival orientation, housing, settling-in, bank account, health insurance, schooling, town-hall registration, driving licence, partner job finding and departure services. No price.
• Relocation Belgium: immigration help, home finding, settling-in and school search, integration and tax services. No price.
• Expat Management Group: corporate relocation with home search and settling-in, immigration and compliance, tailor-made packages. No price; it asks you to get in touch.
• Expat Housing: an estate agent for rentals and sales that shows its IPI registration. No fee structure.
• Globe Properties: an estate agent with a home-search service for expats. No fee or percentage.

We also read KBC Brussels’ list of five relocation agencies, which names the agencies and what they do and mentions no fees (KBC Brussels, read 7 Oct 2026). The Belgian agency association, ABRA, names 16 full members. Our research note of 6 October 2026 checked 13 of them on their own sites and found no price list either (ABRA, read 6 Oct 2026).

So the market works on quotes. That is not unusual, but it means you can only learn the price by asking, and two agencies may not quote for the same scope.

What do the pages tell you about scope?

Scope is where quotes differ, so the lists matter even without prices.

• Property visits. Do It 4 Me’s package covers visits to up to 15 selected properties, and follow-up around signing the lease. Ask any agency how many visits it includes.
• Settling-in tasks. Be Welcome lists a bank account, health insurance and child benefit, schooling, town-hall registration, driving licence and transport help, and departure services. KBC’s description adds telecom and energy subscriptions and enrolling children at school.
• Immigration. Relocation Belgium lists immigration help. In Belgium the employer applies for a single permit, so check who does what: see moving to Belgium.
• Corporate service. Expat Management Group says it fits a package to the employer’s mobility policy and corporate culture.
• Registration. Estate agents in Belgium work under the professional institute IPI. Expat Housing, for example, shows an IPI registration number, says it is bound by the institute’s code of ethics and names its professional liability cover. Whether a relocation agency that only finds rentals for clients needs the same registration is not confirmed by any source we read, so ask the firm what registration it holds and what it covers.

Who pays: you, the landlord or your employer?

Three payers appear in the sources.

• The landlord. The Brussels commissioner’s housing page says an estate agent’s service is free for tenants and chargeable for landlords, and points to the professional institute IPI for checking an agent (Commissioner Brussels, read 7 Oct 2026). That describes an agent who lists homes for owners. Whether a service that searches for you is priced the same way, we did not find out.
• Your employer. Expat Management Group’s page is written for corporate clients. We found no source on how often employers pay, or what they pay.
• You. If you hire a firm to search or settle you in, you pay what you agree. The pages above give no amount.

Before you book anything yourself, ask your employer whether it has a relocation policy.

What does the cost of living tell you about the scale?

It gives a sense of the money in play, not of agency fees. On 6 October 2026 Numbeo, a crowd-sourced site, put a one-bedroom flat in the centre of Brussels at EUR 1,197 a month and one outside the centre at EUR 1,031, from 127 contributors (Numbeo, read 7 Oct 2026). These are estimates, not official rents. Rent is one cost of a move. Another is the rental guarantee, which in Brussels may be up to two months’ rent on a blocked bank account (Commissioner Brussels). An agency fee comes on top of both.

How do you get a quote you can compare?

1. Write one brief: city, move-in date, household, budget, services.
2. Send it to two or three agencies and ask for a written quote.
3. Ask each to state what is included and what costs extra, whether VAT is added and the number of property visits.
4. Ask what happens if no home is found.
5. Ask who your consultant is and who handles any legal part of a permit.

How to choose a relocation agency in Belgium adds how to read ABRA and EuRA membership. The search itself is in how to find an apartment in Brussels, and the admin steps a settling-in service covers are in settling-in services in Belgium.

Is there a free alternative?

For the basics, yes. The Expat Welcome Desk of the Brussels commissioner calls itself a free, independent public service. It advises on registering at the municipality, residence, work and visa questions, rental contracts, family reunification, social security, education and childcare, mobility and taxes, by phone, e-mail, in person or by video, in English, French, Dutch and Spanish, by appointment (Commissioner Brussels, read 7 Oct 2026). It gives guidance; the page does not describe a home search.

What we could not source

We found no Belgian agency price, no package range, no hourly rate, no success-fee model and no source on who usually pays. The research note for Belgium says the same. We read six pages, and an agency we did not read may publish a price. We could not re-read the ABRA member list on 7 October because the site blocked our tools, so the count of 16 full members carries the date of our first reading, 6 October 2026. We give no range because inventing one would mislead you.

Want quotes? Tell us what you need and we pass your request to one agency that fits your city and services.